“F.U.C.K.-ID” is a stand-alone device designed to cut submarine Internet cables. It can be downloaded in a free .stl format for subsequent 3D printing. In essence, F.U.C.K.-ID is an internet stop button. The aim is to give internet users back control over their data and privacy.
Why is this device necessary? Because the internet is a medium influenced by political and power dynamics in which geopolitical actors determine its functioning, its organisation and its control over internet users. This often leads to a situation of oppressive mass surveillance and data interception by governments and large corporations. In this dystopian reality, the Free and Universal Internet Dissent Cutting Kit serves as a critical design concept to shed light on the problems of control and surveillance.
How does it work? A diver attaches the device to the underwater cable with screws. Once attached, the natural motion of ocean currents propels the blade over the pendulum that holds the saw. This oscillating motion cuts a 60 mm thick cable over a period of time.
According to Sherrie Rabinowitz & Kit Galloway in A Manifesto For The Original 1984 Electronic Cafe Network Project: “WE MUST CREATE AT THE SAME SCALE AS WE CAN DESTROY, “
Press|Publications Exhibitions:
MEIAC (Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art) Algoritmia ART IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE, BADAJOZ (SPAIN).
AMRO Art, hacktivism & open culture. Linz, (Austria).
Drugo More, Critical Triggers, (Rijeka).
The worK of ArT In The Age of ITs TeChnologICAl DIsTrIBUTIon At The InTerneT of oTher people’s Things. Edited by linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle.
Neural, Hacktivism, E-Music, New Media Art. ISSUE 59/Winter 2018. Printing the Eye, VR now.
Photo: Kristijan Vučković
Internet DissidenceWorkshop.
BOGOTÁ, NOVEMBER 2017 at Universidad Nacional de Colombia/ Observatorio de Diseño Aplicado, Lab de prototipos y productos (LAPP). Participants: Angela Mora / Felipe Villamil / Sebastian Molina / Alejandro Muñoz / Robinson De Lavalle / Daniela Cifuentes / Mateo Talero / Lina Rojas / Nacor Andrade / Angie Martinez / Christian Dueñas Torres / Daniel Felipe Hortúa S / Vanessa Castellanos / Natalia Alarcon F. / Paula Solano / Juan Manuel Roa / Ana María Fonseca Cubillos / Brajan Styven Jiménez Álvarez / Andres Felipe Sarmiento Capella / German Felipe Hernández Vargas / Juan David Perez Camargo/ Andres Felipe Angel / David Leonardo Pérez Avella / Felipe Preciado Romero / Juan Camilo Cardenas Parra. Co-supervised by: Rolando Ruiz, Coordinador Plan Curricular Diseño Industrial, Investigador del ODA Observatorio de Diseño AplicadoManagement Assistant – Residencias Artística UN, Denisse Estefania Gracia. Espetial Thanks: Nelson Vergara, Enrique Tomás, German Silva Valderrama, Gerardo Garzon Fonseca
[PROJECT 1] TITLE: Sierra Submarina DOWNLOAD .STL
DESCRIPTION: This cutting tool uses a circular saw (1) driven by wave energy. INSTRUCTIONS: Use the floating bollard (2) anchored to the terminal block (A), which when moving transversely or longitudinally activates the pinion system (B), which ends in the rotation of the saw.The pushing force of the saw on the cable is developed thanks to the spring (4), which joins it with the base (5) of the ground with the arm (6), which holds the saw and the gearwheels; at the same time, at the opposite end, it is joined to the base by means of a pivot. (7)
For the development of the activity, print on acetates two maps, one where it shows the location of the different transoceanic cables, and the second one of the buoys or floating beacons, to achieve interposing them and identify, the proximity of the cable with one of the buoys.
[PROJECT 2] TITLE: Taladrín DOWNLOAD.STL
DESCRIPTION:Cutting tool for submarine fiber-optic cables, by means of the rotation of a reel that transmits energy through the movement of a boat. While accelerating the boat, two springs allow the drill to pierce the 6 cms cable disrupting the transit of information through the internet. Materials needed: ABS filament. / 120 cm of ¼ “threaded rod. / 8 safety nuts and 8 ¼ “butterfly nuts. / 3 springs 4 cm long. / Laser cutting parts: 1 square of 10cm * 10cm * 1cm. 2 circles of 6 cm in diameter by 5 mm in thickness. / 1 boat with motor and diving equipment. / 1 conical stepped drill (Nitride and titanium alloy) of 9 cm length. / 1 rod 1 cm in diameter by 15 cm in length. / 1 mandrel for screws.
[PROJECT 3] TITLE: Kraken DOWNLOAD.STL
DESCRIPTION: This device is a cutting system that takes advantage of the movement of the ocean currents by means of a turbine, the water enters and rotates the blades, which through the main mechanism transform the thrust of the waves into potential energy, at its end it has a cutting blade. Once the device is installed on the submarine cable, the blade exerts a constant vertical oscillation that will eventually cut the cable by 60%, which guarantees that the internet signal is disabled.
[PROJECT 4] TITLE: Disconnected DOWNLOAD.STL
DEVELOPERS: Ana María Fonseca Cubillos / Brajan Styven Jiménez Álvarez / Andres Felipe Sarmiento Capella / German Felipe Hernández Vargas / Juan David Perez Camargo
DESCRIPTION: Device for cutting a submarine cable, taking advantage of underwater currents that will move a diamond or tungsten tip that is in contact with the cable in a pendulous way, generating a continuous pressure on its surface and little by little it is expected that it will be able to cut the different layers of polymer and steel to reach the optical fiber that it carries inside. The time it would take to cut a cable would be between 8 and 12 months.
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