!Mediengruppe Bitnik

!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) work on and with the Internet. Their artistic practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally employing loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. They have been known to subvert surveillance cameras, bug an opera house to broadcast its performances to people at home, physically glitch a building, and unleash a bot on a three-month darknet shopping spree where it randomly bought items like keys, cigarettes, trainers and Ecstasy and had them sent directly to the gallery space.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik regularly collaborate with other artists, curators and institutions. Recently, they curated programmes, exhibitions and conferences on Unreal Data and practices of collective action and resistance. They also launched a foundation to fund radically contemporary Internet art called Error 417 Expectation Failed.

https://bitnik.org/

!Mediengruppe Bitnik. . Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik. Delivery for Mr. Assange. NERO Editions, 2016.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik. “(un)real data – (un)real effects.” Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 2024.