Some Projects by Nick Knouf

Nick Knouf (b. 1980) is an artist, activist and researcher currently based at Cornell. His work explores the interstitial spaces between information science, critical theory, digital art, and science and technology studies he maintains the site zeitkunst.org.

Fluid Nexus Project Video from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

One of his better known projects Fluid Nexus (2008-09) is an application for mobile phones that enables activists to send messages and data amongst themselves independent of a centralized cellular network. This allows for communication in instances where the centralized network has been shut down or is under surveillance.



More recently Nick has developed a series of Firefox extensions designed to aggregates information about colleges and universities involved in what he identifies as the military-academic-industrial complex or MAIC. The screen shot above is a still from Firefox running the MAICgregator (2009) extension on the University of California's official website.



A similar script was written to address privacy concerns with worldcat.org, Cornell University's online library catalog provider. When running the Replace Library Form (2009)script adds a detailed warning statement to the library homepage.