Examples of using X-devian in English and their translations into Danish
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X-Devian also emphasizes the collective character of free-software.
But as the name indicates, X-Devian is also a special"variant"4.
Free Software on the Surface, Behind the Screen andin a Cultural Kaleidoscope: X-Devian.
X-Devian distinguishes itself from much of the technological art that is today presented at festivals such as Ars Electronica.
Free Software on the Surface, Behind the Screen andin a Cultural Kaleidoscope: X-Devian. Daniel G. Andujar Archive.
In the second part of the installation, you get behind the X-Devian interface to the software itself and the free software as environment, network and activity.
Formally, X-Devian is a so-called'distribution' of the Ubuntu operating system, which within the free-software community refers to a variant of a system based on GNU/Linux, e.g. Ubuntu3.
But perhaps such festivals are not the right context for X-Devian, just as it might be a misunderstanding to comprehend the work in relation to"technological art.
They are informally gathered in front of a computer in a boutique landscape that, with its glass walls andhectic activity signals that X-Devian addresses itself to an open and dynamic environment.
Technological Art beyond the Technology X-Devian distinguishes itself from much of the technological art that is today presented at festivals such as Ars Electronica.
He turns the system's own resources and values against itself,while at the same time- which is especially clear in X-Devian- he symbolically reverses the sign and the actual content.
In its aesthetic form, X-Devian thus reflects free software's idea of changeability and adaptability in relation to specific situations utilizing local distributions as far as possible.
Besides connecting the two worlds of the work, the slogan dramatizes a general uncertainty andambivalence that encodes the access to X-Devian with a mixture of skepticism and idealism, distrustful and visionary views.
Even though X-Devian is an idealistic statement like Stallman's, its emphasis is the aesthetic staging of free software as a cultural discourse where meanings are in play.
While they consist predominantly of self-referential texts and symbols, Andujar refers to a world and activity beyond the work.Instead of internal organization and structuring, the information economy in X-Devian is based on activeness, production and relations in a non-institutional context.
In that way, Information Society and X-Devian are”role-models” for a non-authoritative culture where knowledge is produced in an exchange between autonomous subjects in a network.
Technology is understood and exhibited predominantly as valuable in itself, and the function of art is reducedto aesthetics- to embellishment.16 But perhaps such festivals are not the right context for X-Devian, just as it might be a misunderstanding to comprehend the work in relation to"technological art.
Spread about the room there are tables with online computers- running X-Devian- on which you can aquaint yourself with the content of the homepage and experience how the software actually functions.
X-Devian is also a distribution, in that the installation hands out the newest version of Ubuntu on CD-ROM, so that visitors can take the program home and run it on their own computers.
It is an inclusive and generous economy, where engagement counts. In its expression andits thematizing of information economy X-Devian lies in extension of installations by conceptual artists of the 60's such as Joseph Kosuth, Mel Bochner and Art& Language. However, even though there are formal aesthetic similarities, there are also significant differences between X-Devian and these works.
In X-Devian, the focus, on the other hand, is on representation and conceptualization as a strategy to discuss free software in relation to a number of themes that do not deal with software alone, but also with software culture.
Technologies To The People® Publicity Department, Alicante 2000 8 ibid 9 Since Andujar exhibited X-Devian for the first time, Apple has updated Mac OS X several times, and the homepage that was made for the installation in the Århus Kunstbygning is thus from the newest version Mac OS X Leopard, while the promotional video is for Mac OS X Panther.
X-Devian intentionally misreads Apple's"X" as a symbol for the undefined and potential, an essential figure for the development of free software- instead of reading it as an exact character for the description of Apple's operating system.
The installation is built up around a two-part”story” of the operating system X-Devian, which unfolds in an advertizing campaign in which you are introduced to X-Devian as a product, and also in a sort of laboratory environment in which you have access to hands-on exploration of the operating system and to various information on free software.
Formally, X-Devian is a so-called'distribution' of the Ubuntu operating system, which within the free-software community refers to a variant of a system based on GNU/Linux, e.g. Ubuntu3. X-Devian is also a distribution, in that the installation hands out the newest version of Ubuntu on CD-ROM, so that visitors can take the program home and run it on their own computers.
Ambiguous Backdrop The installation of X-Devian in the Århus Kunstbygning involves both the advertizing campaign and the laboratory and connects them in a more literal way than in Andujar's earlier installations of the work.
As a work, X-Devian is an actual distribution of GNU/Linux via a narrative of a fictional variant of a system that exists"only" as an artwork and whose representation and conceptualization of the system is substantially different from Ubuntu's own.
In its expression andits thematizing of information economy X-Devian lies in extension of installations by conceptual artists of the 60's such as Joseph Kosuth, Mel Bochner and Art& Language. However, even though there are formal aesthetic similarities, there are also significant differences between X-Devian and these works.
Since Andujar exhibited X-Devian for the first time, Apple has updated Mac OS X several times, and the homepage that was made for the installation in the Århus Kunstbygning is thus from the newest version Mac OS X Leopard, while the promotional video is for Mac OS X Panther.
By hacking the representation of software- in the sense of setting it free- X-Devian displays free software as fundamentally different, partly as a differently distributed form of discourse than the centralized form that the proprietary software industry uses, partly as a different social and autonomous cultural context for conceiving of"the most advanced operating system.