Category : Recent works

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Forensic Fantasies – #1: Not a Blackmail

Posted on: May 11, 2016 /
Categories: Recent works

#1: Not a Blackmail The first artwork of the series examines the possibility to blackmail a prior owner of a hard-drive. Besides finding sensitive data of the owner it is crucial to be able to contact the person to express ones demands. From one hard-drive we could find out who it had belonged to, further

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Megacorp.

Posted on: September 25, 2015 /
Categories: Recent works

“Megacorp.” is a corporate conglomerate inspired by its equally powerful counterparts in science fiction. The artwork is based on a collection of fake websites scraped from internet by the artist  duo KairUs. These companies exist only virtually and are used by cyber criminals for phishing attacks or to support scam stories. The “Megacorp.” exists therefore

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Let’s talk business

Posted on: December 6, 2014 /
Categories: Recent works

  ‘Let’s talk business’ is a multi-channel audio installation that enables the visitor to listen to Internet scammers who try to lure potential victims into advance fee payments. Their phone numbers were extracted from a Scam Email database, analysed by country, and categorized by scam scheme. Once calling up, they had the chance to tell

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Password: * * * * * *

Posted on: February 11, 2014 /
Categories: Recent works

  Password: * * * * * * reveals popular email-passwords of internet scammers. The passwords are arranged typographically in six stars, each star containing most popular word combination with the words: ‘good’, ‘love’, ‘money’, ‘mother’, ‘jesus’, ‘bless’. Email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook are used by scammers to create fake identities and

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Faceless patrons

Posted on: October 12, 2012 /
Categories: Recent works

  ‘Faceless patrons’ is an installation that documents stories used by Internet scammers in so called ‘overpayment check scams’. Scammers use scripted stories to reach their victims, yet when correspondence continues story worlds start to evolve. We wanted to take a closer look on these ‘419-fiction’ cybercrime stories, ‘419’ relating to the criminal code in

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