I met with digital/creative agency Syrup Sthlm today for a portfolio review and was exposed to some pretty interesting digital work – among other things a random dude blogging while traveling Sweden and trying out different youth hostels on behalf of the Swedish Tourist Foundation (see the blog in Swedish here).
Even more interesting though was a campaign encouraging people to perform “digital disobedience” to show their disapproval of the FRA-law (a very controversial law that would give the government authority to go through regular citizens´ e-mail/Internet/phone communication in search of suspicious activities). The project is posted below:
This digital disobedience-spirit is very much all over Sweden these days – apart from Swedish party Piratpartiet (The Pirate Party) just recently winning a seat in the European Parliament, a coalition of Swedish “pirates” called “Embassy of Piracy” are currently taking part in the Venice Biennial (an annual art event) promoting a free Internet and a larger vision of a free world where knowledge is shared and spread without restriction.
The idea is to use a tiny paper pyramid as a symbol of the Embassy of Piracy and allow people to copy this shape, modify it as they please and place it wherever they want as a symbol of the boundlessness of the Internet. The “official song” of the Embassy of Piracy is included below (the beautiful voice belongs to my friend Mai Ueda, Japanese artist living in New York and everywhere, very boundless person herself 
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June 18, 2009 at 1:25 pm |
Um, what do you mean “would”? The FRA-law is already in effect. Today is actually the anniversary of the FRA-law since it was passed exactly one year ago.