Issue Eight - uncopy

the people here in Germany). He attacheda link to a fake Streetview page thatrequired payment to browse the content.Although the input fields for the paymentinformation were dummies, the site gotmarked as a phishing site very quicklyand disappeared, but the idea behind thisaction is really nice.Since trolling is about creative play withpeople’s expectations or about infiltratingsystems, I see a big connection to art!MS Do you have some good examples of RLtrolling?SK Of course! RL trolling can be a lot of fun!I remember trolling Aram Bartholl once,when he held a lecture at Merz Academyand went outside to get a cup of coffee. Iran forward to his notebook and pluggedin the receiver for my wireless mouseto the back of his notebook (one of thosethat stand out just 3 millimeters whenplugged in). As he came back and showedus something, I could safely open anyYouTube video while he was talking to uswith the projection in the back. Even as herealized, that something is wrong, he stilldidn’t know how it worked!Another more artistic action, two fellowstudents and me came up with (also duringthe workshop with Aram Bartholl) wasinfiltrating Media Markt (German versionof BestBuy). We printed out pictures andput them on USB-Sticks and went into theMedia Markt. Then we photographed thepictures with the digital cameras they hadon display and used their displays as ourcanvas. Then we went on to the computersand set the pictures from our USB-Stick aswallpapers on the PC’s and Notebooks.Tracky Birthday came up with a nice ideato troll party people when I talked to himabout my book. Just take an existing partyand design new flyers for it. The fakeflyers, however, state that it is a pyjamasparty or some bad-taste party. Print themat some online discount printer and laythem out everywhere. Then turn up at theparty to see the people going to a regularparty in pyjamas.Another great idea, I found somewhere onthe Internet involves those deer-camerasthat automatically take pictures whensomething in front of them moves. All youhave to do is open the box and borrowthe SD-card. Then, at home, open one ofthe pictures on the card and photoshopsome kind of monster into it. Then put thecard back into the camera and wait for thetelevision to broadcast a story about themonster in the woods.Again, all this works because you wouldnot expect someone to do this.MS Are you a troll?SK Aren’t we all trolls sometimes?Here is a record of my most epic actions asa troll:http://nm.merz-akademie.de/~stefan.krappitz/—Edited by Cristina VremeşWe started some kind of exhibition likethis. Sadly, while the employees had noidea what we were doing with the USB-Sticks, they did see our camera veryquickly and threatened to throw us out ofthe shop immediately if we go on filming.Therefore, the documentation sucks.Not that artistic but still really nice issticking small trollface stickers over thesensors of optical mice, or making candyappleswith onions instead of apples, orsomehow getting people to visit shock siteslike lemonparty.org (don’t go there unlessyou want to see three elderly men doing“things.”)23