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Matthew Rothenberg recently launched Unindexed, a purposefully short-lived web community that was set to self-destruct as soon as Google's indexing technology made it searchable. 

The exhibition was created by Tellart and FABRICA in creative consultation withSuperflux, Near Future Laboratory and Noah Radford of Institute for the Future.

His interactive pieces make prime use of the internet as a canvas, culminating in a huge archive of previous works. Check them out here.

DNCODER INFOMERCIAL A design concept by Max Salesse, Deniz Örs, Billie Rehwald University Of Applied Arts Vienna Industrial design class Fiona Raby

This image depicts “A Here-and-Now protest in Digiland: This group places an enormous emphasis on fully engaging with the present, the place you are in, and the people you are with, now. They rip their ‘wearable' gadget sleeves off in protest.”

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz "The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties."

“In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.A DoS attack generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.”

Phone Story is An iPhone educational game that guides players through the production process behind the device they are playing it on.

Teh Internet Is Serious Business was a play performed at the Royal Court last year. It tells the story of how the online Anonymous movement came to prominence, and the part it played in the creation of LulzSec, a Hacker group that became well known for their political and playful high-profile hacks. To promote the play, four key members of LulzSec appeared together for the first time since they were convicted.

His website links to a wider range of projects that he works on. Check it out here.

The exhibition itself may be over, but the Disobedient Objects show at the V&A has a great blog that can be found here.

For the duration of the project we’ll be posting a range of interesting links and information.

Footage of Moving Brands’ Ink Hack from last year