THE PIRATE CINEMA

In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, The Pirate Cinema makes visible the hidden activity and geography of peer-to-peer file sharing. The project is presented as a monitoring room, which shows P2P transfers happening in real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol.

The installation produces an arbitrary cut-up of the files currently being exchanged. This immediate and fragmentary rendering of digital activity, with information concerning its source and destination, thus depicts the topology of digital media consumption and uncontrolled content dissemination in a connected world.

CONCEPTION: DISNOVATION.ORG
PROGRAMMING: BRENDAN HOWELL & JEAN-MARIE BOYER
INSTALLATION & LIVE PERFORMANCE | 2012–2014
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