Naked on Pluto

Plutonian Times Research

July 4th, 2011 by Marloes de Valk

Elastic Versailles is in desperate need of a newspaper. The days where you’d actually have to travel to Pluto to get a glimpse of the wholesome and glamorous life within the walls of Elastic Versailles are almost over. We are training a group of reporter bots to do live reports from Pluto and we’re mere days away from the launch of the official, state controlled newspaper ‘Naked on Pluto’.

In search of inspiration Elastic Versailles’ News Agency has been looking at other independent, state controlled newspapers and broadcasters. Is there a common style?

The Voice of Korea sports a blue-skies-all-is-well design and writing style, as demonstrated in the article “Pigeon-Raisers Family” enjoys an optimistic life”

Various entertainments and optimistic life of Kim Yong Gun’s family were an epitome of the rich feelings of the Korean people who always live an optimistic life with confidence in their future.

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Plutonian Striptease lectures at LiWoLi 2011

April 27th, 2011 by Marloes de Valk

Art Meets Radical Openness: Liwoli 2011

Guests Friday 13 May

Marloes de Valk – http://naked-on-pluto.net and https://archive.bleu255.com/nakedonpluto
Owen Mundy – http://givememydata.com/
Dusan Barok – http://www.faceleaks.info/

Guests Saturday 14 May

Nicolas Malevé – http://yoogle.be/spip.php?page=start_yoogle
Margaritha Köhl – http://www.univie.ac.at/publizistik/Koehl.htm
Pippa Buchanan (Mozilla Webcraft) – http://p2pu.org/webcraft
Birgit Bachler – http://www.birgitbachler.com

‘Plutonian Striptease’ is a 2 evening lecture series, filled with short 30 minute lectures on social media, online privacy, the data market and the economy of open systems.

We all share a lot of information with others online. Not only voluntarily and consciously via public parts of social media, but also unknowingly, by searching, purchasing, browsing… And on top of that, non-public parts of the web are being scraped to complete the already very detailed profiles data brokers and listening companies have on us. Read more »

Tags: lecture, presentation
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BoF + Constant + NoP Public Lecture at Piet Zwart Institute

March 14th, 2011 by aymeric

Public Lecture: Joris van Hoboken, Nicolas Malevé and Aymeric Mansoux
Date: Wednesday, 16/03/2011
Time: doors open at 18:45, lecture begins at 19:00
Location: Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam
Entrance free
streamed at: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/pzwart_video.html

Bringing together artists, programmers and theorists, Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… is a series of lectures examining the porous borders of privacy in the digital age. Previous public events in this series have touched upon a wide rage of topics such as surveillance, data-mining, the function and limits of anonymity, and the profound influence of network architecture on social, political and legal issues.
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Tags: anonymity, bits of freedom, constant, data mining, discussion, friends, lecture, piet zwart institute, privacy, rotterdam, social networks
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Mozilla Game On and the Open Web mystery

February 3rd, 2011 by aymeric

“Game On 2010 is Mozilla Labs’ first international gaming competition. Game On is all about games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser.”

That sounds good, he? That’s what we thought too, and the reason why we submitted Naked on Pluto to the competition. Our game is entirely free software, developed with free software, makes use of the latest open standards but most importantly tries to look from a critical angle to the open Web and its glossy origin, Web 2.0. We did not enter to win (it would be nice of course!) but to have the opportunity to get feedback on our work from an interested audience and experts of the field.

So we thought.
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Tags: communication, competition, game on, mozilla, mystery, open web, script writing, web
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Facebook mis à nu

January 29th, 2011 by Marloes de Valk

Naked on Pluto in liberation

The French paper ‘Liberation’ has published an article on Naked on Pluto in it’s weekend edition of 16 and 17 Januari 2011. In the paper version the game is immersively called Naked in Pluto. Here’s a translation (French version below)!

Facebook undressed
The text game “Naked on Pluto” turns personal data into an interactive adventure on social networks.

By: MARIE LECHNER (translation: Marloes de Valk)

Naked as a jaybird you arrive on Pluto, the city of a thousand pleasures, the Las Vegas of the solar system, under the command of Elastic Versailles, a corrupted artificial intelligence. Naked on Pluto is a text based adventure on Facebook, which integrates a player’s personal data and that of his “friends” as elements in this thrilling interactive fiction. Read more »

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Plutonian Striptease XII: Gordan Savicic

January 26th, 2011 by Marloes de Valk

Plutonian Striptease is a series of interviews with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy.

Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) is an artist playing with software algorithms, experimental media and fine art. His project “Suicide Machine 2.0”, where you can kill your virtual identity on social media sites, attracted lots of media attention. His work includes game art, interactive/passive installations and speculative hardware. His participation in collaborative projects and performances have been shown in several countries, such as Japan (dis-locate), Germany (Transmediale), Spain (Arco Madrid), France (IRCAM) and the Netherlands (V2_), among others. Savicic lives and works in Rotterdam and Vienna.

Social networks are often in the news, why do you think this is?
Part of their numerous news coverage is due to the reason that the old dream of silicon valley is again revived. Any little startup company could all of a sudden become the next big thing; romanticizing the emergence of accidental billionaires. The recent movie “The Social Network” is another example where “nerdy” startups are being portrayed through mass media channels as a part of a larger picture. Read more »

Tags: activism, EULA, Facebook, Flecks of identity, games, hype, participation, sharing, social networks, startups, targeted advertising, web 2.0
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NOP at SPEED SHOW vol.5

January 9th, 2011 by aymeric

Naked on Pluto will be part of the fifth edition of the Speed Show series! This new release, titled ‘Open Internet’, will be happening in Paris the 13th of January. The event is curated and produced by Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny. Unfortunately the NOP crew is held hostage by EVr14’s cleaning bots at the moment and won’t make it in time! Please drop by for a chat, an energy drink and some browser based love brought to you by:

Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann).

SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris
13th January 2011
7:00-11:00 PM

More information here: http://fffff.at/speed-show-5/

Tags: cybercafé, exhibition, friends, Internet, paris, speedshow
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@NopCleanerBot

December 7th, 2010 by Dave Griffiths

In our continuing efforts to embrace all “social media”, one of the bots in Naked on Pluto has started a twitter account. Could this be the first character in a FaceBook game to tweet?
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What do we do with your data?

November 16th, 2010 by Dave Griffiths

Now we have people playing the game, it’s a good time to explain what happens with your facebook data in more detail. Given the nature of the project it’s important for us to make this clear. Here is a diagram I’ve prepared for the presentation we are giving at Piksel at the weeked:

Tags: piksel, privacy
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Opening Funware exhibition

November 16th, 2010 by Marloes de Valk

Last friday the exhibition Funware opened at MU in Eindhoven. It is well worth a visit! No mindless clicking followed by a brief moment of entertainment, but a few thoughtful clicks rewarded with a fresh take on software. The exhibition is curated by Olga Goriunova. Read more »

Tags: exhibition, funware, stickers
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