The hacker/artist group 0100101110101101.org hacked the Vatican main website back in 1998. An interesting example of how new media is used and misused in this context. Especially the reaction time from the religious organization, which had even a hard time figuring out the hacking attempt.
The website: http://0100101110101101.org/home/vaticano.org/spoof/index.html
More info at: http://0100101110101101.org/home/vaticano.org/story.html
The night of the 10th December 1998 begins the action that will go down in history as The First Internet Coup. Over 24 hours, a commando takes posses of the official online organ of information of the Vatican State, or the Holy See. The commando buys the domain name vaticano.org pointing it to a Canadian server, where has already been created a huge website esthetically identical to the official one (www.vatican.va).
An editorial network works 24-7 with precise instructions: copy as many texts as possible from the official website, modify them slightly and publish them in the fake one.
Like the Pope, 0100101110101101.ORG has decided to open the Holy Doors of the Net to pilgrims from the whole world: from the moment in which Vaticano.org is opened, a huge stream of visitors pours into the fake website. Over one year the spoof website reaches more than 4 million hits: a one-year radical performance and the Net will never be the same.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Vaticano.org: The First Internet Coup
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Bible as social network
So many names, so many strange relationships - maybe this project, the Biblical Social Network by
Chris Harrison can help us to follow the characters and the locations.
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286 Places of Worship
Nathan Coley: The Lamp of Sacrifice - 286 Places of Worship, Edinburgh - 2004
Installation view in The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
With so few towers, and almost no mosque - I wonder if anyone could do the same with other towns.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Google Earth, bible events mashup, Parting the Red Sea
Austraian artist group Glue Society exhibited Google Earth mashups on Miami Art Fair 2007 on biblical events from god's eye view perspective.
I can already imagine an entire bible illustrated by similar images, like the Moses Parting the Red Sea (above), or even some 'original' Flicker images and apostle shot cell phone vids.
(Link) to CR blog, via Boing Boing
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