Prachtige vorm van techno-activisme, dit project van Omer Shapira en Surya Mattu . Als antwoord op het eenzijdig pluggen van U2’s nieuwe album door Apple vervaardigden zij de luidspreker ProBono die het alleen toestaat U2 ten gehore te brengen, óók als de input iets heel anders is. De heren over ProBono:
“Pro-Bono I is a response to Apple’s placement of content on every iTunes-connected product, without prior consent. It’s not just hilarious that a company that emphasises individualism and taste would put one album on every device it sold (although that is, we admit, kinda hillarious), it’s also terrifying.
The consequences of placing a payload inside something you think you own reach further than an insult to your musical taste. It may compromise your civil rights, personal safety and freedom of expression. This breach of rights is a deal between an Electronics manufacturer and a record label, the next one may be an uneasy deal with an oppressive regime.
We wanted to create memorabilia from this short dystopian episode so it never happens again.”
ProBono is in een uiterst gelimiteerde oplage te koop op eBay.
bron: Nerdcore
ProBono 1 from Surya Mattu on Vimeo.
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