hi! A poszonyi 13m3 medialaborban tartok workshopot jovo het elejen. A tema a kulonbozo wifi halozatok, es a lathatatlan hullamok megjelenitese. Lesznek elmeleti vitak is a wifi politikai es muveszeti vetuleteirol. A workshop ingyenes, a szallas sator vagy hazban polifon.
http://13m3.sk/?id=749#en ENGAGED ENGINEERING: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORKS [workshop] Facilitator: Maxigas (hu) Date: 27 – 29 August Language: English (sorry for the hegemony) Workshop structure The workshop aims to combine hands-on tinkering with theoretical discussion. We build an interesting wireless network on site (bring routers!) and make it visible through installations. The idea is that the horizontal/rhizomatic structure of a mesh network is both politically desirable and aesthetically pleasing. During the discussions we will focus on the political economy of the network as a medium. Community wireless networks can change the ownership regime of Internet infrastructure and they can be examples of self-organisation and projects for a self-sustaining autonomous life. They are good breeding environments for community created culture and a threat to the alienated subjectivity of neoliberal capitalism. In a mesh there are no clients and hosts, or masters and slaves; but the routing is resolved by the cooperation of equal devices. However, in real life Temporarily Autonomous Zones are under constant siege by the powers-that-be, so our network will also have a hierarchical part where it connects to the backbone. Think of it (if you can) as an allegorical puppet play with network packets. We connect several nodes with self-built cantennas and set up a mesh network extending the already existing hierarchical Internet infrastructure. We set up a file server and a captive portal on the local area network. Experimenting with different setups, we learn the ways of the airwaves. At this point, the services are there for the people to use for free! But how do they know it? How they realise the possibility in the present situation? How is it possible to express the beauty of a horizontal structure? *We have to make the invisible visible!* Gathering the data which flows in the ditches we have built and subverted, we will try to give physical form to the airwaves. The tools for that are based on the different affinities of the participants. We can use sculptures, real-time architecture, audio and video, and even text messages... The result of the workshop are public art installations which visualise network traffic and propagise network services. Participants The project is founded on the artist-geeker unity, but architects are not left out either. Linux hackers are robotic sculptors more than welcome. Bring your own wireless / media / computing / building equipment. If we cannot combine different skills, proficiency levels and interests, we are doomed to failure! Number of places: 10 About facilitator A cyberpunk and anarchist studying aesthetics, film, English and squatting. He is boiling his evil plan to take over the world in the Kitchen Budapest, and the ingredients are the Internet, wireless networking, independent media and the Multitude. The plan of his project for a community wireless network is here. When he grows up he wants to be a hacker. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indymedia / IMC Hungary [indy.media.hu] Kitchen Budapest [www.kitchenbudapest.hu] Zöld Pók / Green Spider [www.zpok.hu] _______________________________________________ Huwico mailing list Huwico@lists.huwico.hu https://lists.huwico.hu/mailman/listinfo/huwico
