Undressing for XKeyscore - norms/forms to fit in/out" by Zeljko Blace. Andi Weiland | berlinergazette.de. CC-BY-NC. The Snowden disclosures have triggered debates about democracy, civil rights, the internet and intelligence agencies all around the world. These debates have led to a number of political changes, including negative ones, for instance, consolidating the delusion of cyber-security. Meanwhile, the documents that triggered the debates remain hard to penetrate for the general public, as well as for many experts. And it is not certain that the documents will be preserved for posterity or for those writing our history, since they are so spread out over the world corresponding to numerous sources.
The book and exhibition project SIGNALS takes this problem as its starting point and situates the historic leak in the context of civic appropriation. The artists participating in the exhibition test the files as material and, by creating works, transform them into commons.
A Field Guide to the Snowden Files - Media, Art, Archives 2013 – 2017. Krystian Woznicki | berlinergazette.de. CC-BY-NC.For the first time documents of the greatest intelligence leak in history were presented in an exhibition in Berlin – the former 'capital of the spies' and the present retreat of many digital dissidents. Snowden’s well-known documents – published all over the world – represent only a small percentage of the files that he actually saved before disappearing from his work as an NSA subcontractor.
