Autonomy Cube

Autonomy cube
One of the Autonomy Cubes on display as part of Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation (2015) at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.
ArtistTrevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum
Year2014 (2014)–2018
TypeSculpture
MediumLucite, Novena motherboards

The Autonomy Cube was an art project run by American artists and technologists Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum that places relays for the anonymous communication network Tor in traditional art museums.[1][2] Both have previously created art pieces that straddle the border between art and technology.[1][3] The cube is in line with much of Paglen's and Appelbaum's earlier pieces in targeting the field of surveillance and government snooping.[1] The sculptures consist of 1.25 ft blocks of acrylic Lucite containing Wifi-routers based upon two open source hardware Novena-motherboards.[4][5]

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  3. ^ Poitras, Laura (2015-06-09). "'The Art of Dissent'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2016-04-10. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  4. ^ "The Artist Using Museums to Amplify Tor's Anonymity Network". WIRED. Archived from the original on 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  5. ^ Sohn, Tim (2015-09-22). "Trevor Paglen Plumbs the Internet". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-05-25.