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[rachel lyra hospodar]

What does it mean, to hack?

Is sewing hacking?  garments are a technological system we use to
regulate temperature.  I use a machine to modify them, creatively and in
contravention of established norms.

If yes, what about other dimensional art forms?  i just used a table saw
on plywood, is that hacking?  Plywood is a highly engineered material.
Is this only hacking if i use it as a truss, so that its properties are
called on to distribute force?  what if i use it for its unnatural flatness?

if no, what about if i sew a circuitboard into a garment?  is it only
hacking when there is conductive thread in my machine?  what about when
i am sewing an insulation layer?

Stop saying what isn't and define what is!

On 3/14/2011 11:36 PM, Evan Bangham wrote:
> Politics|Cooking|Art|Writing != Hacking
> 
> Yes, hacking can involve creativity and breaking established norms, but you
> can't just use it as a blanket term to describe doing anything that involves
> these things.
> 
<snip>
> 
> The slow food hacking thing I suppose enters the realm of hacking to a
> limited extent because it is using chemistry and the like, and I imagine is
> subversive in some way. I could say the same about photography and the like
> as long as it breaking the established norms of the medium and is harnessing
> technology in some way. Traditional fine art however, can never be 'hacked'
> because it is just so far removed from the realm of anything related to
> technology or science.
> 
> I think in many senses I'm being far to accommodating for these expanded
> definitions of the term as it is though.
>