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Out of the Ordinary is a
Carnivore client, a network
visualization software, which measures
and maps the probability of communication between computers on the network that the software
resides on, and between computers on the network and the Internet.
Data travels on the Internet between two computers in packets. The Out of the Ordinary
client maps the likelihood of a packet being sent between the two communicating computers.
It thus produces an image of its networks' levels of excitement and surprise, or the lack thereof.
Each packet that comes through the network is represented as a square. The grey value of the square is determined by the probability of the packet being sent between the two computers. The higher the probability is, the darker the square is. The probability is calculated from how many times the two computers have been communicating, relative to the total amount of packets passing through the network since the client was launched. The assumption is that the more two computers communicate, the more likely it is that they communicate again.
In the context of the ever-increasing paranoia stemming from the surveillance inherent in computer networks, it is interesting to see how little of Internet communication is out of the ordinary. |
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Download OOO to monitor your network. You have to have carnivorePE installed. The full screen version is not recommended if you are running the client on the same computer as you are running carnivorePE since you can't access other programs to generate network traffic if the client covers the whole screen. - > PC (full screen version) - > PC (in window) - > Mac OS9 (full screen version) - > Mac OS9 (in window) - > Mac OSX (full screen version) - > Mac OSX (in window) Simulation - > A Web simulation visualizing a sample of network traffic. The OOO client is collected by: computerfinearts.org The OOO client has been exhibited at: Open_Source_Art_Hack, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 2002 Electrohype 2002, Malmoe, Sweden, 2002 (installation) Carnivore clients, Eybeam Gallery, New York, NY 2002 |
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- > 'Out of the Ordinary Occurrences', a text by Jan Ekenberg |
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Lisa Jevbratt ~ 2002 |