IOCOSE: Art, Authority and Culture Jamming

When we started working as a group in 2006, we wanted to replicate the methods of those who inspired us: the Yes Men and the net.art movement (mostly Eva and Franco Mattes, Vuk Cosik and Ubermorgen), as well as the culture jamming work featured in the magazine Adbusters. The net.art movement was the reason for our initial interest in concepts such as authorship, fakes, and originality as they were emerging within digital culture. We were particularly fascinated by how these topics were somehow permeated by a political layer: the freedom to copy, modify, and circulate images and texts seemed to...