SOUND ART: "SYN-ACK 2023-05-11”

Written By Michael Workman

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SYN-ACK 2023-05-11

Description
Offensive cybersecurity tools are transformed into audio-visual instruments. Port scans, vulnerability exploits, wifi packet sniffing, deauth attacks, ping scans, and more are used to generate network activity that is converted directly into raw digital sound and raw terminal text in real-time.

Runtime: 10 minutes, 34 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation, Any Screen, Headphones

Director Biography - Phillip David Stearns
Phillip Stearns (He/Him) is a Denver based artist working with both physical and digital media. A major through line in his work is the use of media technologies to reveal hidden worlds that are integral to our daily existence but reside just beyond our sense perceptions. He has performed and exhibited work internationally in art festivals, museums, and galleries including Tate Britain, Park Avenue Armory, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, ELEKTRA BIAN, Transmediale, FILE, Festival de Arte Digital, Thoma Foundation, Denver Art Museum, Zhangzhou Museum of Art and Haus Der Elektronischen Künste.

Credits & Specifications:
Phillip David Stearns (Director)

Completion Date: May 11, 2023
Country of Origin: United States
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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