Source: National Cyber Security - Produced By Gregory Evans
LONDON — Recognize that picture? Two Italian-born artists are showing off more than 10,000 private photographs they claim to have stolen from random people’s hard drives, part of an exhibit that also features fragments cut, torn or chipped off of iconic works by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons. The loot from the art-minded crime spree is intended to raise questions about what’s private, what’s public, and what makes art “art,†said curator Barbara Rodriguez Munoz, who gave The Associated Press a tour of London’s Carroll/Fletcher gallery on Thursday. She was philosophical when asked whether such an exhibition also raises legal or moral questions. “We wanted to create a space where there’s room for risk and a room for discussion,†she said. “Sometimes if you don’t shake those boundaries, you don’t create conversation.†The artists, Eva and Franco Mattes, said they gathered their trove of stolen photographs after stumbling on users of a file-sharing program who had misconfigured their profiles. “We were not hackers,†said Franco. “By chance we figured it out.†The pair copied the contents of about 100 people’s hard drives, downloading pictures, videos and music which they arranged into a slide show. A projector installed in [...]
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