Kingdom of Piracy is a self claimed floating kingdom adrift in the codified open source / open seas, exploring the free sharing of digital content as the net's ultimate art form.

Kingdom of Piracy is a self claimed floating kingdom adrift in the codified open source / open seas, exploring the free sharing of digital content - often condemned as piracy - as the net's ultimate art form.

After falling out with the original sponsor Acer Digital Arts Center during Taiwan's aggressive anti-piracy campaign in spring 2002, KOP premiered at Ars Electronica 2002 and subsequently dropped its anchor at FACT, Liverpool, UK in 2003 with a new commission "BURN" and a CDROM/booklet publication "DIVE".

KOP continued its journey to DEAF2003 (RotterdamV2), and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Game Scene, SF2004).

Since 2004 KOP has embarked on the research project Commons | Tales whose phase 1 was presented at the the OpenNature exhibition at NTTICC, Tokyo 2005. As a part of the ongoing research at Open Congress, Tate, London 2005, a workout session was held under the title RULE OUT: Autonomy takes up on Openness.

Kingdom of Piracy tests the limits of openness in the commons of the open sea. KOP seeks to shelter the dissenting voices and the self-exiles, while referring to the fact that the seized power can be an imagined one.