====== Institute for Dissent and Datalove ======


The Institute for Dissent and Datalove is a loose collective comprised of hackers, artists, activists and tinkerers. It overlaps with networks of solidarities involved in active defense of free speech and free/libre technologies, technology critics and political interventions.

The Institute for Dissent and Datalove has so far mostly been used for operations of de/re-contextualization of large datasets, de-formatting of formats and playful use of liberating algorithms.

It tries to criticize and deconstruct itself, while remaining grounded in uncompromising collective practices of autonomy and solidarity.


===== “SECRET+NOFORN” (2022) =====
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“SECRET+NOFORN” is all of the “Cablegate” U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks classified “SECRET” or “SECRET//NOFORN” in chronological order.

Most of the world heard of the historic publication of 251,287 diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks in 2010. Yet, few have taken time to browse through and read a couple of them. By reformatting the cable archive from an abstract trove of digital documents online to a collection of hard-cover books, "SECRET+NOFORN" re-imagines the experience of this window into the secret diplomacy of the Empire. 

The collection of 66 books, representing only the most secret of the cables (the 6.2% of them with classification levels "SECRET" and "SECRET//NOFORN" as in "secret, no foreigners"), sits like an "elephant in the room", hard to avoid by its bulkiness and impressive physical presence. The project thus also aims at giving a visual cue of the vastness of this trove of public-interest information. ( It is actually a working proof-of-concept, first step towards a wider project of printing in a similar format the integrality of the 251,287 cables, in more than 1000 such volumes. )

Beyond the pagination, the elaboration of "SECRET+NOFORN" involved some state-of-the-art algorithmic techniques - similar to those of scientific journalism pioneered and exemplified by WikiLeaks - in order to research, authenticate and guarantee the integrity of the dataset during the process of its handling.

By physically representing the cold and dark state-violence of the World's secret diplomacy and turning it into a portable public-interest library, accesible beyond IT skills, censorship or prejudice, "SECRET+NOFORN" is meant as a tribute to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, and as a strong reminder of the inner motives for their ongoing vengeful persecution by the US.


===== "WarCrimes-o-Matic" (2022) =====

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Warning: pressing the red button may make you part of a “conspiracy”. 

Warning: contains violence, death and war crimes.