Taking WikiLeaks as an illustrative example, 'Open' 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy relate to one another, to the public and to publicity in our computerized visual cultures.
Open 22 examines transparency as an ideology, the ideal of the free flow of information versus the fight over access to information and the intrinsic connection between publicity and secrecy. Does transparency only work in a liberating way? Can it not equally have a concealing or controlling effect? Aren’t certain forms of transparency actually the manifestation of the banality of the contemporary spectacle, which revolves around pure display and the production of affects? What role do the media play in this?
Jorinde Seijdel
Editorial
Online article
Felix Stalder
The Fight over Transparency. From a Hierarchical to a Horizontal Organization
Media theorist Felix Stalder searches for a form of transparency that can express and strengthen social solidarity.
Stefan Nowotny
Publicity and Secrecy. Variations on Intertwining Use
Philosopher Stefan Nowotny states that secrecy and publicity are more intertwined with one another than ever before.
Boris Groys
WikiLeaks. The Revolt of the Clerks, or Universality as Conspiracy
Media theorist Boris Groys argues that the universal openness of WikiLeaks is based on the most consummate secretiveness.
Jodi Dean
Know It All. WikiLeaks, Democracy and the Information Age
Political theorist Jodi Dean criticizes WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, reproaching the latter for lack of insight into the setting in which he operates.
Sven Lütticken
Secrets of the See-Through Factory On Intervening in Opaque Transparency
Art critic Sven Lütticken shows how the structure of the modern work of art offers the perfect means of gaining insight into the dialectics of opacity and transparency.
Roel Griffioen
From Glass to One-Way Glass Shifting Meanings of Transparency, Openness and Privacy in Architecture
Architecture historian Roel Griffioen shows that, unlike in the ‘modernist’ glass house, concealing has become just as important as displaying in today’s one-way glass house.
Column
Jorinde Seijdel
Transparency as Cult WikiLeaks and Facebook
Online article
Critic Jorinde Seijdel wonders where WikiLeaks and Facebook converge.
Interview
Willem van Weelden
WikiLeaks as an Editorial Problem. A Conversation with Geert Lovink and Merijn Oudenampsen
Willem van Weelden interviews media theorist Geert Lovink and political sociologist Merijn Oudenampsen on whether WikiLeaks is effecting social and political change.
Graphic Design students Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam)/Merel Woudwijk
WikiLeak
Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Pyo Ahn
WikiLeak
Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Aude Deboutt
WikiLeak
Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Adrian Camenzind
WikiLeak
Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Lydia Sachse
WikiLeak
Jill Magid
Failed States
Zachary Formwalt
Selections from an Archive of Images of Economy
Heath Bunting
Piercing The Veils of Identity Classes (From hand-eye co-ordination to corporate wealth)
Books
Merijn Oudenampsen
Lieven De Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (eds.), Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization
Ilse van Rijn
Paul De Bruyne and Pascal Gielen (eds.), Community Art: The Politics of Trespassing
Jeroen Boomgaard
Paul O’Neill en Claire Doherty (eds.), Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art
Ilse van Rijn
Maria Hlavajova, Simon Sheikh, Jill Winder (eds.), On Horizons: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Eric Kluitenberg
Josephine Bosma, Nettitudes: Let’s Talk Net Art
Maaike Lauwaert
Jeroen Boomgaard, Wild Park. Het onverwachte als opdracht
Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain is an initiative of SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain and is published by NAi Publishers.
