Carnivore

inception: 2001

Description

Carnivore is a Processing library that allows you to perform surveillance on data networks. Carnivore listens to internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Using Processing, you are able to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in any way you wish.

attributed to: Rhizome staff

inception: 2021

description edit

Carnivore is a networked art project in two parts. The first part is Carnivore Server, an application which performs packet-sniffing on a specific local area network and serves the resulting data stream via the net. The second part consists of an unlimited number of client applications which tap into this data stream and interpret it in creative ways.

attributed to: Alexander Galloway

inception: 11 November 2001

Legacy descriptive tags

FBI, Rhizome.org, DCS1000, Carnivore

Attribution: Alexander Galloway

tactical, Readymade, Participatory, information map, Generative, contextual, collider, Collaborative, Abstract, tactical media, surveillance, social space, privacy, network, Internet, Shockwave, Perl, Flash, download, Text, audio, Animation

Attribution: Rhizome staff

Metadata

Descriptive Data

artist: Alexander Galloway

title: Carnivore

inception: 2001

Variant History

outside link

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access URL: http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/

inception: 2001

associated with: Alexander Galloway