IDEA 20090826 Virii 2009

The idea is to collect together the year's most popular computer viruses and provide them on a sealed disk for sale to the owner. The owner would be registered upon sale, and the collection, while put onto a disk, possibly a platinum or gold disk for archival qualities, but put behind glass and entrusted to the owner not to use.

Its a best of CD!

Computer viruses, create havoc, whether real or not, and provide for a large economy of services based around FUD in general computing use. If one has not encountered a computer virus, or had to answer questions from troubled parents using computers, then one must not be living in modern times.

The packaging for the Virii 2009 to be generated would be similar to a platinum disk or gold disk as generated for recording artists. While its not a reward to the virus creators, it is notable to create such successful software.

Also, putting these on disks is not a violation in and of itself. It is not use, but it is an acknowledgment of the place in society for these types of merchandise.

Quantity
A limited edition 1st version is being produced right now for 2009.

Renegade Art Auction
This artwork will be auctioned at the Renegade Art Auction in October 2009.


 * Title: Virii 2009
 * Description: Virii 2009 is an annual archived collection of the most successfully spread virii that has infected computers globally in 2009. The collection, presented as a certified record of authenticity framed for hanging on the wall, is to be only distributed as an annual one of a kind disc form. It is entrusted to the owner of the one-of-a-kind disc to not share this custom writing content with the world, but to store it as an example of potential problems or solutions in the modern computing era.
 * Size / dimensions: 16" (W) x 20" (H)
 * Framed / unframed: Framed with Record, and certificate inside
 * Value (Note - the DOE does not allow anything over $2400 for wholesale) : $666


 * Jon Phillips: Jon Phillips is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business writing services development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

Example Images
http://www.2020visionsegroup.com/Platinum-Record1_1.jpg

Next Steps

 * Complete collection of virii
 * Make a metric like the RIAA for platinum, gold records
 * Find out specs on archival data disk
 * Find out who makes platinum disks for RIAA, etc
 * Complete manufacturing of the disc

Further Projects
Another idea is to create a similar project to Open Machine Gun, where Virii 2009 are put online, but massive credentials, openid, etc, all required for one to download the disks, and then provide a public acknowledgment of the bait.