Curators Statement

ReFunct 09 Symposium, organised by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Data Group (Dublin Art and Technology Association), for ISEA2009. This event will combine workshops, discussions, performances and an exhibition.

ReFunct 09: !Alerting Infrastructure! a project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen Alerting Infrastructure! is a physical hit counter that translates hits to the web site of an organization into interior damage of the physical building that web site or organization represents.

• Ivan Twohig is a visual artist, designer and educator. Director of Technology at Parsons Paris – The New School. Works between Paris, Ireland and the Internet. ivantwohig.com
• Benjamin Gaulon (FR) (born 1979) is an artist whose work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gaulon
  
• Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Ph.D., is an award winning artist, researcher, and writer.               coin-operated.com/about-2

Full text (PDF) p. 122