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01/09/2020
Bitsoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign
‘BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign’ engages with one of the most pressing problems of the digital economy, the inequalities involved in the mining of user data by tech companies for profit – Christiane Paul about bitsoil.tax/campaign.
While using free Internet services, we generate data that big corporations use to earn a lot of money. More than 2.5 trillion bytes of data are generated daily. Every click, every Tweet, every post generates data that can be sold.
‘BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign’ proposes a new way of distributing Internet wealth by introducing the BitSoil currency. Twitter bots invite users to join the campaign by launching their own bots which will send digital postcards to either a CEO of one of the ten biggest tech firms or to the head of state of a country of choice. Through these interactions, new BitSoil value is created – printed receipts allow us to follow this process on-site.
The campaign is on tour across the world. After Brussels, Leuven, Linz, Wuhan, Berlin, Seoul, Peking ‘BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign’ hits ground in two world’s most famous cities: Shanghai in China and New York in USA.
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- Big House - Wuhan
- Drive - Berlin
- Gluon - Brussels
- Hyundai Motorstudio Art District 798 - Beijing
- Kellen Gallery - New York
- McaM - Shanghai
- New Media Gallery - Vancouver
- OK Center - Linz
- SongEun ArtSpace - Seoul
@ Hyundai Motorstudio Art District 798 Beijing
BTS 160207.14497 redistributed earnings
1073 people signed-up!
@ New Media Gallery Vancouver
BTS 382284.18952 redistributed earnings
Untill now 1312 people signed-up!
@ Gluon Brussels
28/11/2018Enter the BitRepublic
Gluon Art & Tech Hub Brussels
17/05/2018 – 27/05/2018
Since we started this campaign BTS 24.275400 has been redistributed
123 people signed-up!
© photo credits: lumin.be / larbitslab.be
@ OK Center Linz
29/11/2018CyberArts 2018 – Ars Electronica
Linz, Austria
06/09/2018 – 16/09/2018
BTS 1342.562400 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
375 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ Big House Wuhan
01/12/2018BITREPUBLIC
Big House Contemporary Art Center
Wuhan / China
27/10/2018 – 20/12/2018
BTS 2656.789200 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
524 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ Drive Berlin
01/12/2018ERROR – The Art of Imperfection
Drive Volkswagen Group / Berlin
16/11/2018 – 28/02/2019
BTS 4093.912500 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
806 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ SongEun ArtSpace Seoul
06/04/2019Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities Beyond Technology 2.0
SongEun ArtSpace / Seoul
25/03/2019 – 08/06/2019
BTS 79584.02702 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
905 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ Hyundai Motorstudio Art District 798 Beijing
17/07/2019Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa – An Exhibition on AI and Art
Hyundai Motorstudio Art District 798 / Beijing
12/07/2019 – 21/10/2019
BTS 160207.14497 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
1073 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ McaM Shanghai
12/11/2019Mind the Deep: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation
Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM) / Shanghai
06/11/2019 – 09/02/2020
BTS 215637.18282 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
1109 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
@ Kellen Gallery New York
15/02/2020The Question of Intelligence – AI and the Future of Humanity
Kellen Gallery – The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center / New York
07/02/2020 – 08/04/2020
BTS 254018.29136 redistributed earnings on the data produced by people
Untill now 1205 people signed-up!
© photo credits: larbitslab.be
