source:https://escuderoandaluz.com/2017/11/01/free-universal-cut-kit-for-internet-dissidence-f-u-c-k-id/
The internet is a medium influenced by political and power dynamics in which geopolitical actors determine its functioning, organisation, and control over internet users. In this dystopian future, the Free and Universal Cut Kit for Internet Dissidence [FUCK-ID] serves as a critical design concept to shed light on the problems of control and surveillance. It visualises the socio-political effects of the physical Internet infrastructure and returns to the users the ability to decide about their data and privacy. In essence, F.U.C.K.-ID is an internet stop button.
‘F.U.C.K.-ID’ is an autonomous cutting device powered by marine currents that can cut underwater Internet cables. It is available from the artist’s website for free download .STL files, for later 3D printing.
According to Sherrie Rabinowitz & Kit Galloway in A Manifesto For The Original 1984 Electronic Cafe Network Project: “WE MUST CREATE AT THE SAME SCALE AS WE CAN DESTROY, “
The way to run it: A diver takes several minutes to attach the screws that tie the device to the cable. Once connected, the spring on the back presses the saw through the cutting surface. The vane in the upper part provides the resistance to drive the pendulum that supports the saw. In a few weeks, the gentle sea movement will cut a 60 mm-thick cable.
Press|Publications Exhibitions:
Exhibition at NeMe.org in the framework of sea blindness. (cyprus).
Exhibition: “A sea on edge,” a critical reflection on the blue economy. Quo Artis. Sant Manuel Pavilion, BHH; Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site (Spain).
Exhibition: MEIAC (Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art) Algoritmia ART IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE, BADAJOZ (SPAIN).
Exhibition: AMRO Art, hacktivism & open culture. Linz, (Austria).
Exhibition: Drugo More, Critical Triggers, (Rijeka).
The worK of ArT In The Age of ITs TeChnologICAl DIsTrIBUTIon At The InTerneT of oTher people’s Things. Edited by linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle.
Neural, Hacktivism, E-Music, New Media Art. ISSUE 59/Winter 2018. Printing the Eye, VR now.