{"id":683,"date":"2011-05-25T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/pirates-of-the-amazon\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:13:46","slug":"pirates-of-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/pirates-of-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-683-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2380513?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2380513?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/2380513?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pirates of the Amazon&#8221; was an artistic parody, part of a media research and developed at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pzwart.wdka.nl\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Media Design M.A. course at the Piet Zwart Institute<\/a>\u00a0of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the supervision of our tutor Denis Jaromil Rojo and former course director Florian Cramer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture. The work received strong reactions for instance one day after publishing it received a take down request by the legal department of Amazon.com.\u00a0Dutch anti-piracy foundation Brein supposedly also requested the Rotterdam University to remove the controversial add on from the internet. The Rotterdam University decided to concede to these demands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the value of the project lies in the strong reactions that were provoked. It was a ready-made and social sculpture of contemporary internet user culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"314\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pamaz.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Edward Shanken responded to this work on the net time mailinglist:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><em>&#8220;Regarding &#8220;critical scholarly work on the internet,&#8221; Pirates of the Amazon seems a bit &#8220;lite&#8221; to warrant such a lofty moniker. It is a clever exercise\/hack that demonstrates what anyone who is net-savvy already knows. Maybe I&#8217;m being too critical. Nonetheless, as a form of creative expression, I agree with Tobias&#8217;s point about the importance of it being protected from censorship. If there is a critical scholarly moment to be identified here, I believe it pertains to questions of the censorship of particular types of software. If they were my students, I would encourage them to take that as the starting point of their next project.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artexetra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Edward Shanken<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Amsterdam<\/a>, via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettime.org\/Lists-Archives\/nettime-l-0812\/msg00027.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">nettime.org<\/a>, December 6, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":5710,"template":"","artist":[844],"streams":[11],"keywords":[3891,3204,3895,3888,2203,3892,3894,3887,3889,3890,3893],"decade":[5544],"media":[5547,5546],"class_list":["post-683","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-pirates-of-the-amazon","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","keywords-add-on","keywords-amazon","keywords-browser","keywords-mozilla","keywords-net-art","keywords-piet-zwart-institute","keywords-piracy","keywords-piratebay","keywords-plug-in","keywords-plugin","keywords-pzi","decade-2000s","media-image","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/683\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}