jan 2002

0100101110101101.ORG / VOPOS

The telephone, satellites and the Internet: "VOPOS" exploits and merges three kinds of net. The two members of 0100101110101101.ORG are the cell under control. They wear a GPS transmitter that sends, through a cell phone, its co-ordinates to a website: HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG. A software draws on a digital geographic map the exact position in which they reside, establishing a path that traces all the movements of the cell under control.

Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (or GPS) is a collection of satellites owned by the U.S. Government. GPS receivers on the earth's surface listen in on the information received from three to twelve satellites and, from that, determine the precise location of the receiver, as well as how fast and in what direction it is moving. Some GPS receivers have been integrated into mobile radios, cellular phones and mobile data terminals. In the next future they will probably be installed on each vehicle and miniaturized to the point of being wearable.

VOPOS

"VOPOS" represents the second stage of a wider project, "GLASNOST", started on 2000, that consists on monitoring and making public, in real time, the biggest quantity of data concerning an individual in the actual society. With the first stage, "life_sharing", 0100101110101101.ORG started giving every Internet user free 24-7 access to their computer: programs, system, desktop, archives, tools, ongoing projects and even private mail are all public. "life_sharing" radically challenges the concept of intellectual property and explores the contradictions of privacy in the era of information technology.
0100101110101101.ORG is trying to give an account of how vast amounts of personal information are moving into corporate hands, where they can be developed into electronic profiles of individuals and groups that are potentially far more detailed and intrusive than the files built up in the past by state police and security agencies. 0100101110101101.ORG reveals how ordinary citizens are losing control of the information about them that is available to anyone who can pay for it.

VOPOS SOUND

Rough data resulted from the constant monitoring of people constitutes the main source for the corporate definition of new marketing strategies. VOPOS is intended to prove the vulnerability of the information produced by the daily using of mobile phones. 0100101110101101.ORG put his own telephone under control for a month, so that all Internet users had real-time access to any phone conversation trough the website. All the files have been manipulated remixing and sampling the conversations, by the experimental-music and art collective known as Negativland. The result is the pop-song "What's this noise?". The acoustic application of the project stresses the attention on a usual corporate strategy that consists on exploiting the data collected monitoring peoples behaves.