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| 1 | We, the creators of 'PRISM: The Beacon Frame', wish to express our | |
| 2 | disappointment at the disabling of a crucial element of this work at | |
| 3 | Transmediale 2014, with the threat of reporting us to the German Federal Police. | |
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| 5 | As such we've agreed that it is not in our interests to maintain the work in its | |
| 6 | original form. | |
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| 8 | It was our intention to provide an opportunity for public to critically engage | |
| 9 | precisely the same methods of cellular communications interception used by | |
| 10 | certain governments against their own people and people in sovereign states. It | |
| 11 | was not, in any way, our intention to harm anyone and nor did we. | |
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| 13 | We note that the German Parliament, right next door, has suffered directly by | |
| 14 | way of such violations. | |
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| 16 | It is vital that technology-based art remain a frame with which we can develop | |
| 17 | critical discourses about the world we live in, from the engineered to the | |
| 18 | cultural and political. Sometimes that requires that we are not limited by | |
| 19 | exaggerated fears and legal definition, but that we act proportionally and with | |
| 20 | conscience in our efforts to understand the power struggles and tensions in our | |
| 21 | (technically mediated) environment. | |
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| 23 | Sometimes this means taking risks, risks without intention to harm but to | |
| 24 | engender wider critical insights. | |
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| 26 | We wish to thank the Festival Director and the Curatorial Team from ArtHackDay | |
| 27 | and LEAP for representing us to the best of their ability. | |
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| 29 | "The Critical Engineer considers the exploit to be the most desirable form of | |
| 30 | exposure." | |
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| 32 | Julian Oliver and Daniil Vasiliev | |
| 33 | - | http://criticalengineering.org |
| 33 | + | http://criticalengineering.org |