The interdisciplinary journal DiSCo, run and co-founded by Sarah Hwang published its 2nd issue on SYSTEMS/HACKING in May. The issue centers around hacking as a method of knowledge formation through digital and analog means. The ten research-based articles, media and VR projects, and auto-theoretical pieces expands the definition hacking from its digital/computational origins of agential resistance to an oppressive system to situating it as an alternative knowledge (and nonknowledge) that emerges from and through the systems it aims to intervene.
Sarah also worked closely with British net artist Heath Bunting, the journal’s first artist-in-residence, who contributed quirky graphic icons for the homepage connected by the hashtags next to each article that intervene with his visual interpretations of the articles’ themes like spam pop-up windows, a sinister form of hacking.