[spectre] Hack.it.art Experimental Video
hack.it.art - Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy January 15th-February 27th 2005 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany HACK.IT.ART experimental video video by: Florian Cramer where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin when: January 14th, 2005 Free Download: http://data.plaintext.cc/what_the_hack_it_art.avi [Xvid, 34 MB, very good quality, plays on Linux; on Windows and Mac if the Xvid-Codec is installed, or if people use free media players like vlc] http://data.plaintext.cc/what_the_hack_it_art.mov [Quicktime/MPEG-4, 34 MB, good quality; plays back on Windows and Mac with Quicktime Player, or on Linux with recent versions of ffmpeg/mplayer/xine/vlc.] Hack.it.art has been an exhibition and event about hacktivism in Italy: an alternative and independent way of producing information, art and networking culture. The exhibition has shown this widespread phenomenon and presented to the German public the multitude of Italian media and net activism. This is an experimental video of the opening, made by Florian Cramer. [Info hack.it.art 2005: http://www.ecn.org/aha/English/hackitart_schedule.htm] -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli //_/\__ web site: http://www.ecn.org/aha / \ http://www.strano.net/bazzichelli /\ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] [ann] CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies Festival Berlin
CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival 14-22 october 2006, Berlin, Germany http://www.cum2cut.net [Registration closes Tuesday 13 october!] The CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival is an independent pornography competition. It is a three day marathon in which participants are invited to realize a short film in the city of Berlin. The short-movies must be completely shot in Berlin after the opening party. This is the D.I.Y game! CUM2CUT is open to queer, homo, hetero, lesbo and transsexual independent video- and filmmakers, pornographers, performers, screenwriters, directors, queer cultural activists and artists, free thinkers, excited minds and all the people that like to mix technology and bodies. If you want to participate to the CUM2CUT Festival, please send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registration closes Tuesday 13 october. Enjoy the pleasure of sharing pornography all over the city! Your film will be shown at the PornFilmFestival Berlin. --- Programme 14-22 october 2006, Berlin Opening party: 14.10. 19.00h Schwuz, Mehringdamm 61. Shooting Videos: 15.10. Grosse Freiheit 114, Boxhagener str. 114 AHA, Mehringdamm 61. Porn Giving Day, 16.10. from 20.00h Barbie Deinhoff, Schlesischestr. 16 Short Movies Screening, 21.10. from 20.00h Kant Kino 2, Kantstr. 54 Jury: Ela Troyano and Tessa Hughes Freeland, N.Y./USA | Katrien Jacobs, Hong Kong/Japan | Girlswholikeporno, Barcelona/Spain | Betty/Sexyshock, Bologna/Italy |Sebsatian Luetgert, Berlin/Germany | Pier Mario Simula, Florence/Italy. Short Movies Awards, 22.10 from 20.00h Award Ceremony Kant Kino 1, Kantstr. 54 Final Prom, 22.10 from 22.00h In2it indie pr0n party Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzerstr. 130, Kreuzberg. Performance Team Plastique, Australia and Mitsu Salmon. Dj Ipek (+ Belly Dance), Berlin; Dj Bürger P, Berlin, Dj Tina Pornflakes, Italy, Dj Ria Stern, Berlin, and many others! Vjs sets by Mizz Pravda, erotic pictures, etc. --- http://www.cum2cut.net Registration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The CUM2CUT Festival has developed in collaboration with the PornFilmFestival Berlin. http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli //_/\__ web site: http://www.ecn.org/aha / \ http://www.networkingart.eu /\ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] [book] Networking | The Net as an Artwork
Online and on paper: NETWORKING, The Net as an Artwork Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli With the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove and the epilogue of the videoartist Simonetta Fadda. Download the book from: http://www.networkingart.eu The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities. Networking means to create nets of relations, by sharing experiences and ideas in order to communicate and experiment artistically and where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the public, act on the same level. In Italy, thanks to the alternative use of Internet, during the past twenty years of experimentation a vast national network of people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed. Active in underground environments, these projects use diverse media (computers, video, television, radio and magazines) and deal with technological experimentation, or hacktivism, depending on the terminology used in Italy, where the political component is a central theme. The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of expression is also a central theme. The book describes the evolution of the italian hacktiviam and net culture from the Eighties till today. At the same time, it builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to neoavant-garde artistic practices of the 1960's (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, Neoism and Luther Blissett. A path which began in BBS, alternative web platforms diffused in Italy half way through the 1980's even before Internet even existed, and then moved on to Hackmeetings, to Telestreet, to Netporn and networking art of different artists such as 0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi, Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca, Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others. Language: Italian | Pages: 336 | Price: 21 euro | Publisher: Costa e Nolan, Milan (Italy). To order the book on paper, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli //_/\__ web site: http://www.ecn.org/aha / \ http://www.networkingart.eu /\ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HACKmit! Exhibition | Media and Art to Live | Berlin
* HACKmit! Exhibition Medien und Kunst zum Leben (Media and Art to Live) * 1st May - 26th August 2007, MACHmit! Museum, Berlin, Germany Opening: 1st May, 11.00am, Free entrance A project curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli at MACHmit! Museum fuer Kinder (http://www.machmitmuseum.de) with: Minimal TV (Giacomo Verde, Federico Bucalossi, Vania Pucci), Freaknet Medialab (Gabriele Zaverio, Aldo Cesar Fagà), Pigreca (Flavia Alman and Sabine Reiff), Simonetta Fadda, Sebastian Luetgert, Vittore Baroni(*), Bjoern Balcke, Anna Laudani and Giuliana Del Zanna. (*)in networking with: Martha Aitchison (UK), buZ blurr (USA), Gregory T. Byrd (USA), Bruno Capatti (IT), David Dellafiora (Australia), Mike Dickau (USA), Jas W Felter (Canada), John Held Jr. (USA), Jo.Anne Hill (UK), Susanna Lakner (D), Michael Leigh (UK), Graciela Gutièrrez Marx (Argentina), Emilio Morandi (IT), Angela and Peter Netmail (D), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Franco Piri Focardi (IT), Claudio Romeo (IT), Karla Sachse (D), Gianni Simone (Japan), The Sticker Dude (USA), Giovanni and Renata Strada (IT), Lucien Suel (France), Rod Summers / VEC (The Netherlands), Annina Van Sebroeck and Luc Fierens (Belgium), Reid Wood (USA), Special Guest: Anna Banana. The HACKmit Exhibition is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin). - Concept - The HACK MIT! event at MACHmit! Museum fuer Kinder (www.machmitmuseum.de) is an exhibition and event about art and new media, with a particular focus on the concept of hacking. The idea is to bring children closed to the new technologies, like computers, videos, televisions, and at the same time associate those technologies to the more traditional art field, from the classical avant-gardes (such as Surrealism, Dadaism, Futurism) to the present. Italian artists and German ones are brought together to realise a project where children can playfully learn to use media. The aim is to provide an approach of using technology in a creative way. Central concept is the do-it-yourself creation and hacker ethic. Hackers give life to an alternative and independent way of producing information, cultural consciousness and communication. They share the good of knowledge and fight for free communication and access for all, aiming to create and spread knowledge for the public domain. This way of thinking is very closed to the approach children have to objects and society in general: they learn playing and de-constructing the reality, applying new meanings and unpredictable results to it. Today, many children learn very early how to use computer and technologies, but many of them have no possibility to learn how to use them in a critical and non-commercial way, and understand how media can be easily linked to art and creativity. With this exhibition, they can experience how art can be easy to do, and how technology can be consciously used. Much research are focused on the bad effect of media in children's perception of reality and the construction of cultural and social paradigms. But if children learn how to use media self-consciously, technology can be an important tool for creating, learning and realising art. Media are considered in their creative possibilities, presented in a historical perspective and highlighted in their diversity from the past to present. Art thus becomes common experience, a field of experimentation with media, offering an opportunity of individual participation in the process of artistic creation. The history of contemporary art has gradually destroyed the concept of art as a property. It has empowered the spectator as a no longer a passive consumer, but active participant of the artwork. The role of the artist as an all-powerful creator has also been gradually broken up as well, by artistic happenings which require the participation of the audience (from Fluxus to Mail Art) so that a process takes place which is controlled by the creative spontaneity of the people, showing that it is possible to make one's own art and create self-made media. The idea is to illustrate how art and technology have increasingly converged and how it is possible today, through a self-governed use of media and languages, to practice a hacking art and work in truly collaborative fashion. Art makes sense if people can act inside, the artwork becomes a stream of collective patchwork, contaminations, copying, alteration of language codes and icons. Several workshops will bring together the diverse Italian cultures of hacking and media art with its German counterparts. Children can view interactive models of media and art and can participate in video and computer laboratories. They can create
[spectre] CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short Movies Festival - II Edition
CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short Movies Festival II Edition...CUM2CUT is back!!! 20-28 October 2007: Cum2Cut² Festival 20-24 October 2007: Porn Competition in Berlin, Germany October 2007: Pr0n Competition on the Net (date to define) Registration is already open on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The CUM2CUT² Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival comes again! It is an independent pornography competition, a four day marathon in which participants are invited to release a short film, which will be shown during the Berlin Porn Film Festival. Unlike mainstream porn, the event CUM2CUT² focuses on the activities of the international, independent and countercultural queer movement and presents a platform where artists, filmmakers, djs, actors, hackers, excited minds and everyone interested can collaborate. In this context, queer means to express sexuality beyond the boundaries of identity and to cross the limits of fixed genders and stereotypes. At the same time, the idea of being queer is closely connected with D.I.Y.: CUM2CUT² wants to encourage everyone to express themselves using their bodies and media from an independent point of view, thereby creating new experimental queer languages. This year CUM2CUT² is raised to another level, it is not only a Porn Competition, but also a Pr0n one! - Porn Competition: pornography comes to the centre stage! In the Porn competition, a four day long marathon, people are involved to spread all over the city of Berlin, their own idea of phorngraphy and to promote and enjoy the pleasure of sharing pornography. People who would like to mix up bodies and sexuality are invited to cum to the opening party (20 October) where a category-lottery will take place: draw your own porn genre! - Pr0n Competition: technology becomes pornography| Aim of the pr0n competition is to find strategies, short-ways, tricks, pranks to 'dress-up' the techology into a porn tool. Technology is the protagonist of this competition! People have to deal with pornography using media and creating digital codes and any others video project. Whoever would like to participate in remote, now have a chance to eroticise the network, mixing codes and technology. An expert jury formed by people involved in porn/queer subculture and experimental cinema will select winners respectively for the Porn and Pr0n Competitions. The winners will receive a prize (stay tuned...!) In order to open not only the boundaries of sexuality but also those of artistic expression, the videos produced must be licensed under the Creative Commons. _Registration_ If you want to participate to the CUM2CUT² Festival send a email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (registration is already open!). For news and updates about CUM2CUT² Festival look on the website: http://www.cum2cut.net -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/\__ web site: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: https://www.ecn.org/wws/arc/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Last Call Pr0n Competition @ CUM2CUT Festival
CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival http://www.cum2cut.net Pr0n* Competition: technology becomes pornography| *hack slang for porn CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival comes again! It is an independent pornography competition, a four day marathon in which participants are invited to release a short film, which will be shown during the Porn Film Festival Berlin (http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de). This year CUM2CUT is raised to a double level, it is not only a Porn Competition (in Berlin see http://www.cum2cut.net), but also a Pr0n one (on the net)! As usual all the short movies must be pornographic. Aim of the pr0n competition is to create and share strategies, short-ways, tricks, pranks to 'dress-up' the techology into a porn tool. Technology is the protagonist of this competition! People have to deal with pornography using media or creating digital codes or any other video projects. There is no limits to the possible uses/derivations of technology. The real limits to cross are only the sexual stereotypes. By emulating the hacker way of combining and recombining hard- and software into a more critical and all-encompassing technology, you can subvert rigid sexual paradigms and create new porn InterZones for yourselve and your community. Contrary to the Porn Competition, here people don't have to perform with real bodies, but have to deal with their technical skills. Therefore it is not necessary participants come in Berlin to shoot their movies, but they can upload them in remote on the CUM2CUT server. As the Porn Competition, the Pr0n marathon is 4 days long. You can choose to participate from 20 September to 20 October, registering yourself on the Pr0n form. After your registration, the Pr0n marathon starts! There are just a few rules to follow when making the short movie. You will receive them with you registration. A mail-reminder will inform you on your time left. Within 4 days of competition, you have to upload your video on our server. All of the films will be shown at the end of the Berlin Porn Film Festival at Kant Kino on 26 October. The Award Ceremony will be on 28 October at the same place (see Programme). An expert jury formed by people involved in porn/queer/hacker subculture and experimental cinema will select two winners. The winners will receive a prize: not money, but something really special from the Cazzo Production Team and the Berlin porn scene! At the conclusion of the Berlin Porn Film Festival and of the CUM2CUT Movies Competition there will be a great night-party at LUX club, on 27 October 2007 from 23.00h (see Programme). You are welcome to come! Register your team now! ;-) Registration closes on 20 October 2007. Competition closes on 24 October 2007. Upload here your short movie! (not later than 24 October) http://www.cum2cut.net -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/\__ web site: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: https://www.ecn.org/wws/arc/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] [Video] Orgasmatic Implosion @ Peenemünde
Orgasmatic Implosion Orgasmatic Implosion it's a video realized during the Peenemünde [x] workshop and shown in Transmediale 2008. video by: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Federico Bucalossi, Gaia Novati. see on: http://www.nothuman.net/orgasmatic/ (also available on: http://plot.bek.no/~x/orgasmatic ) [HTI Peenemünde/HKW Berlin 25/26/27/28/30 January 2008] Peenemünde [x] presented an intense, conspiratorial two day long working group/workshop within a key, historical location actively examining that fiction which presents a dark heart of technology (as evidenced by electromagnetic practice), and a vivid relation to entropy/ecology. http://scrying.org/doku.php?id=pm:peenemunde2008description - Orgasmatic Implosion, a video by: Tatiana Bazzichelli [it/de] Tatiana Bazzichelli is a communication sociologist and an expert in hacktivism, art and net culture. Since the 90s she organizes events and conventions. She is the founder of 'Activism-Hacking-Artivism', a networked project based in Berlin, honorary mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2007. In 2006 she published the book Networking. The net as Artwork, a reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy. http://www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de - http://www.networkingart.eu http://www.ecn.org/aha - http://www.cum2cut.net Federico Bucalossi [it] Federico Bucalossi is an Italian artist with over 10 years experience in the field of multimedia art. He has a background as a multimedia artist, multimedia director, video art director, web designer, trainer and consultant. He is member of the groups: Strano Network (computer-internet Art), Yellowcake (Electronic performances for the label KK records, Belgium), Quinta Parete (Art Minimal TV). http://www.nothuman.net Gaia Novati [it/de] Gaia Novati is involved since many years in the Italian queer countercultural movement. Co-founder of Sexyshock, communication laboratory on gender theme and first sex-shop managed by women in Italy, she is one of the organizers of Cum2Cut, Indie-Porn-Short-Movies Festival in Berlin (2006-2008). http://www.cum2cut.net -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de //_/\__ projects: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: http://www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Correct contacts for Hack.Fem.East - Call for Submissions
Hallo everybody, sorry for the cross-posting, but in the last Hack.Fem.East call there was a technical problem in the emails for contacts. These are the correct ones: Contacts: Tatiana Bazzichelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gaia Novati [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you and all the best, Tatiana Bazzichelli -- HACK.Fem.EAST Women and technology in networks. Exhibition, workshops, conference. A project curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati. The exhibition project in Berlin, HACK.Fem.EAST, seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. The focus of the exhibition is on presenting a use of media located somewhere between hacking, art and activism which is driven forward by an international counterculture and avant-garde: the main protagonists are women or projects in which women play an important role. The aim of the project is to provide and to develop a network platform. This will be achieved through five elements: the exhibition, the workshops (Free Space), a conference, a publication in newspaper format, and a website bringing the aspects of the project together. Existing networks from 11 countries are at the heart of the project and form the basis of the exhibition. A total of 11 networks will be invited to the various rooms of the Kunstraumes Kreuzberg/Bethanien to introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of installations, documentations and presentations. The result is a network of networks, visualized in the form of video screenings, installations, computer presentations and documents. The activists will be offering a weekly workshop (Free Space) throughout the duration of the exhibition. The workshops will be based on the respective presentations in the exhibition as well as on and aims and activities that have been developed further in the context of the project. A conference held at the outset of the project is intended to bring the lines and networks together and discuss on women perspective in the Eastern cultural scenario. Its aim is to provide a forum for a form of politics based on radical invention - media and internet art projects, performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding, organisation of media festivals, etc. As part of the publicity for the exhibition, a Berlin daily newspaper (taz) will be publishing a so-called NGO-supplement in an edition of 30.000 copies to coincide with the opening. It will include articles that provide an introduction to the subject and give details regarding the programme. An integral component of the project is of course the website, with an up-to-date and open presentation of the project's processes and developments, summarizing them and putting them up for discussion. Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien website: http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de //_/\__ projects: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: http://www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HACK.Fem.EAST - Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe
HACK.Fem.EAST Frauen, Technologie und Netzwerke in Osteuropa Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe Exhibition, performances, meetings 10 May - 22 June 2008 Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Berlin, Germany Opening: 9 May, from 19.00 A project of Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and with the support of Institutes für Auslandsbeziehungen. The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. Main protagonists are women or projects in which women play an important role. Aim of the project is to provide and to develop a network platform. This is achieved through five elements: the exhibition, the opening event, two days of conferences, a publication in newspaper format and a website. Central idea is to involve women artists to develop independetely their concept in each of the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien and be part of the network formed by the all groups and arstists/activists participating. Existing networks from 11 Eastern countries are at the heart of the project and form the basis of the exhibition. A total of 11 networks are invited to the various rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien to introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of video and computer installations, documentations and presentations. The result is a network of networks. A two day long conference on 10 and 11 May held at the outset of the project intends to bring the lines and networks together and discuss on women perspective in the Eastern cultural scenario. Its aim is to provide a forum for a form of politics based on radical invention - media and Internet art projects, performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding, organisation of media festivals, etc. More information on the exhibition are published on the NGO-supplement of taz, the Berlin daily newspaper, in an edition of 30.000 copies to coincide with the exhibition opening (9 May 2008). Another integral component of the project is the website http://www.hackfemeast.org, with an up-to-date and open presentation of the project's processes and developments, summarizing them and putting them up for discussion. -- *Exhibition: 10 May - 22 June 2008* Participants: Gaby Bila-Gunther (RO/DE) in Network with: Darina Alster (CZ), Pavla Jonssonova (CZ), Albana Kozeli (AL), Elsa Martini (AL), Ioana Morpurgo (RO), Eva Parcher (SI), Katerina Rudcenkova (CZ), Lucia Udvardyova (CZ), Petra Vargova (CZ); Dunja Kukovec (SI) and Katja Kobolt (SI) in Network with: Helena Božič (SI), Anetta Mona Chisa (RO/CZ), Polonca Lovšin (SI), Kitch (SI), Lala Raščić (HR), Tina Smrekar (SI), Son:DA (SI), Zora Stančič (SI), Starke (BA), Lucia Tkacova (SK), Kanak Attak (DE), FAQ Network (Balkans); Andreea Carnu (RO) and Joanne Richardson (RO/DE) in Network with: DMedia (RO), Ladyfest RO, Indymedia RO; Alla Georgieva (UA/BG), Marina Grižnić (SI), Ana Hoffner (RS/DE), Janez Janša (SI), Anna Krenz (PL/DE), Erika Katalina Pasztor (HU), Nada Prlja (BA/UK), Boryana Rossa (BG), Selena Savić (RS/NL), Zvonka Simčič (SI), Mare Tralla (EE/UK), Miss Information und ihre Telekommunisten (NET). -- *Performance, Screening and Talk* _Friday May 9 from 19.00 Opening_ 19.00 - Welcome of Sigrid Klebba, City Mayor for Education and Culture of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 19.00 - Dobrodošli / Willkommen / Welcome Performance by Leila Cmajcanin (BA). Presented by Humour Works. Down to Earth Performance by Jana Prepeluh (SI). Presented by Humour Works. 20.00 - Karasssuite by Ana Filip (RO/SK) and Barbara Huber (AT/SK). 21.00 - From Tea Lady into a Sexfly (Electro/spokenword Performance) Gaby Bila-Gunther (RO/DE) 22.00 - Dj Spoma (HR/DE). 23.00 - Lil Bustard and Freak (Performance and Dj Set) Hairstyling in electro tech house rythm (PL) _Saturday, 10 May 2008_ 14.30 - Introduction 15.00 - Linking Balkan, Lecture Performance - Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic (RS/DE) 15.30 - Panel on Hacktivism and Art in the Eastern Countries. Erika Katalina Pasztor (HU). Boryana Rossa, (BG) Moderated by Diana McCarty (MX/D) 17.30 - SS-XXX | Die Frau Helga - The Borghild Project Reconstruction - Janez Janša (SI). Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana. Co-Production: KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb. 18.30 - Screening of Precarious Lives. Film from DMedia (RO), 64 min,, 2008. Presentation with Andreea Carnu (RO) and Joanne Richardson (RO/DE). _Sunday, 11 May 2008_ 11.00 - Introduction 11.15 - Under Construction Presentation with Silvina Der-Meguerditchian (AR/DE), Eléonore de Montesquiou (FR/EE/DE), Olga Juergenson (EE/UK). 12.00
[spectre] Opening night of HACK.Fem.EAST
Opening night of HACK.Fem.EAST Friday, 9. May 2008 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin HACK.Fem.EAST - 10 May - 22 June 2008 Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe http://www.hackfemeast.org (website daily updated!) Friday, 9. May 2008 – Opening 19.00 - Welcome: Sigrid Klebba, City Mayor for Education and Culture of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Performances: 19.30 - Dobrodošli / Welcome / Willkommen (Performance), Leila Čmajčanin (BA). Humour Works 19.30 - Down to Earth (Performance) Jana Prepeluh (SI), Humour Works 20.00 - Karasssuite (Performance) Ana Filip (RO/SK) und Barbara Huber (AT/SK) 21.00 - From Tea Lady Into a Sexfly (Electro / Spoken Word Performance), Lady Gaby (RO/DE) Party: 22.00 - DJ Spoma (HR/DE) 23.00 - Lil Bustard Freak (Performance DJ Set), Hairstyling in electro tech house rythm (PL) Performance: LEILA CMAJCANIN (BA): Dobrodošli / Welcome / Willkommen (2006) Do you have someone to guarantee for you at the exhibition? Maybe you are dangerously young or you might want to stay at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg forever? Broke? Better be well prepared for the exhibition! After many days of waiting in front of different EU Embassies to finally be able to answer brutally private and from rather objective point of view irrelevant questions – Sarajevo based artist Leila Cmajcanin in her collaborative and highly interactive performance Welcome shares with us emotions outlived and seen by herself at visa procedures. www.fondacijacure.org, www.scca.ba JANA PREPELUH (Sl): Down to Earth (2007) Based on her own experience as an artist without formal education, Jana Prepeluh researches – via a shoe cleaning street action Down To Earth – the attitude to non-material or manual work by overworked alienated individuals in a society where work is still associated with social status. By investigating different reactions – looking up to, or down upon – the artist unintentionally brings out prejudices constructing the subject's moral full of myth and fake assumptions. www.humourworks.org Karasssuite: Performance with Ana Filip (RO/SK), Barbara Huber (AT/SK) The karasssuite is a multidisciplinary project that allows for a variety of artists from different backgrounds to collaborate on a complex media piece based on quotes from 'Cat's Craddle' by Kurt Vonnegut (1963). The pieces from the artists are being uploaded on the database and that is the starting point for the performance - the database is used in a real time situation as a source of material for the performance itself. Menschen haben Krizen is a collective name for all the artists participating in the project. This time Menschen haben Krizen are a! visual chaosdroid (RO/SK), b# (AT/SK) and joining in from Taipei Ana Threat (AT/CN). http://karasssuite.net/ Lady Gaby (RO/DE): 'From a tea lady into a sexfly' An interactive spoken word performance that will start with a 'private and intimate performance' in the public toilet inside Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien House and travel into the Main Hall. Through spoken word, electro beats and interactive actions, Lady Gaby will claim and change her role from a tea lady, into a powerful 'SEXFLY', using technological means that has liberated women such as vacuum cleaner, typewriters, dildoes, tape recorders, slide projectors, and CD players. http://sexflies.awardspace.com/ Dj Set: Balkan beat, gypsy, klezmer, sevdah DJane Spoma (HR/DE) is one of the first promoters of alternative Balkan parties in Munich. Long before Europe was infected with Balkan beat fever and even before Let 3 convinced us that there is something about the pathos of genuine pop-folk singers à la Saban Saulic, Toma Zdravković and - after all - also Hanka Paldum, DJane Spoma had punched true underground arrows into the ears of the Balkan diaspora and fans of former Yugoslavia. www.myspace.com/djspoma Lili Bustard and Freak (Performance and Dj Set) Hairstyling in electro tech house rythm Lil Bustard aka Gog M (PL) (NoiseBand/me.ne.le/LuzZtro Club - Warsaw) - the music preferences of Gosia Machnikowska - alias Goga M - were formed during endless nights spent in (not only) Warsaw clubs. Fascinated by all possible subtypes of techno - she decided to stand the decks herself in the middle of 2004. In 2005 she fall in love with electro. She start laying electro-house and eventually exploring the harder types of the genre. The music she plays today can be summarized as electro-tech-porno-house. Together with Ania Orzechowska they are making a party called Hersprey were Ania is styling hair of some people and Lil is DJing in the same time. http://www.myspace.com/lilbustard HACK.Fem.EAST Radio Interviews, talks and discussions on air – on space at Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethainen. www.hackfemeast.org. Moderated: Valie Djordjević (DE), Diana McCarty (USA/DE), Helena Bozic (SI), Katja Kobolt (SI), Dunja Kukovec (SI) Contact Networkers: Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati
[spectre] HACK.Fem.EAST Blog daily updated
Hi, on the HACK.Fem.EAST website, daily updated blog with photos, audio, materials and interventions about the HACK.Fem.EAST exhibition (9 May - 22 June, Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin). Have a look! http://www.hackfemeast.org/ Best, Tatiana Bazzichelli -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de //_/\__ projects: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: http://www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HACK.Fem.EAST Walking-Aperitivo
HACK.Fem.EAST Walking-Aperitivo @ New Life Berlin Festival The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. In the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien (Berlin, Kreuzberg) 12 networkks of women introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of media and Internet art projects, performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding, etc. The result is a network of networks. On 9 June (from 20.00) the networkers of HACK.Fem.EAST, Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati, will present the exhibition to the participants of the New Life Berlin Festival (dk/de), with a psychogeographic guide held at the outset of the project (http://www.wooloo.org/festival/). With Creative Cocktails and Walking Aperitivo. Introduction: Katerina Valdivia Bruch. Registration at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien Berlin, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. Starting time: 20.00h. Ending: 23.00h More info: http://www.hackfemeast.org - http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de http://www.wooloo.org/ -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de //_/\__ projects: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: http://www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] AHACamping Meeting in Venice
The National AHA Community meeting at the S.A.L.E. in Venice (ACTIVISM-HACKING-ARTIVISM) http://isole.ecn.org/aha/camper/ The national ahaCamping meeting will take place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October 2008 at the S.A.L.E in Venice (The Salt Warehouses, Dorsoduro 187-188). The AHA mailing list, hosted by the Italian independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), is the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism http://www.ecn.org/aha, which was founded in 2001 by Tatiana Bazzichelli aka T_Bazz and was awarded in 2007 at the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz with an Honorary Mention. The ahaCamp was created from the need of approximately 600 subscribers of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to meet each other for the first time face to face, to discuss the themes of artistic, political and technological activism, in a situation that is very different to that which existed when the list was initially created. Themes such as the analysis of Web 2.0 (in economical, social and technological terms), the relationships between artistic activities and digital technologies, and the linguistic and relational deconstruction of communication practices are just a few of the core themes of the meeting. The meeting aims to create nets, to enable the sharing of projects and to build new interventions for the future in artistic and technological fields. The ahaCamp therefore exists as a space whereby to discuss and share knowledge, with the objective of learning and sharing practices and knowledge in a free environment without censorship. By adopting the same strategies of Hackmeetings (http://www.hackmeeting.org), the ahaCamp is organised and managed directly by the participants, who can suggest seminars or projects that they intend to share on the list as well as on the free and open wiki created especially for the occasion: (http://isole.ecn.org/aha/camper/): a nomadic space that offers further possibilities other than the list in order to share projects, ideas, files, videos, documents, music, etc.. AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism is an artistic networking project founded in 2001 by Tatiana Bazzichelli aka T_Bazz. AHA is a networking operation created by diverse subjects and activated by contamination/integration of a multitude of media and events, where the common denominator is hacktivism and artistic and political activism. AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism focuses on the activist collectives in Italy and abroad that use media in an independent fashion, through exhibitions, events, and meetings organised by T_Bazz along with other curators that change accordingly. The fundamental key aspect of the AHA project is the community that develops in the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], created on the 30th of December 2002. The mailing list is moderated by T_Bazz (Tatiana Bazzichelli), Eo_Call (Eleonora Calvelli) and Lo|Bo, and today counts almost 600 subscribers and is a sister of the international mailing list Nettime. The AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism project was awarded in September 2007 at the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz (AU) receiving an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica. For information on AHACamping: http://isole.ecn.org/aha/camper/ For information on the project: AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism http://isole.ecn.org/aha email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the mailing-list AHA: http://www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Networking. The Net as Artwork (English Version)
Dear all, I would like to announce that my book Networking. The Net as Artwork is finally ready in English language. It is promoted by the DARC, Digital Aesthetics Research Center of Aarhus University. http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=62 You can download it from this link: http://darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/networking_bazzichelli.pdf A reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of the Italian hacker communitiy from the 1980s to date. Preface by Derrick De Kerckhove. Epilogue by Simonetta Fadda. Translation: Helen Pringle and Maria Anna Calamia, revised by Grace Wright. Layout and front cover by Jonas Frankki. Cover image: Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici by Antonio Glessi-Andrea Zingoni, published in Frigidaire issue 42, May 1984, Primo Carnera Edition. Contents: Networking means to create nets of relations, where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the audience, act on the same level. The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the creation of Italian hacker communities. The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, diffused through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of expression is a central theme. In Italy, thanks to the alternative use of Internet, during the past twenty years a vast national network of people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed. The book describes the evolution of the italian hacktivism and net culture from the Eighties till today. At the same time, it builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to Neoavant-garde practices of the 1960s (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, Neoism and Luther Blissett. A path which began in BBS, alternative web platforms diffused in Italy through the 1980s even before Internet even existed, and then moved on to Hackmeetings, to Telestreet and networking art of different artists such as 0100101110101101.ORG, [epidemiC], Jaromil, Giacomo Verde, Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Correnti Magnetiche, Candida TV, Tommaso Tozzi, Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, Pigreca, Molleindustria, Guerriglia Marketing, Sexyshock, Phag Off and many others. Tatiana Bazzichelli (Rome, IT, 1974), is a communication sociologist and an expert in network culture, hacktivism and net art. She is a Ph.D. Scholar at Aarhus University. Italian edition 2006, costlan editori s.r.l., Milan. English edition 2008, Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, and the author. The book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3, November 2008. You can download the Networking book from this link: http://darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/networking_bazzichelli.pdf (PDF, 3.10 Mb). Language: English | Pages: 336. More info at: www.networkingart.eu __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Sousveillance. The Art of Inverse Surveillance
Sousveillance The Art of Inverse Surveillance Conference, public interventions and concert February 8th - 9th, 2009, Aarhus University http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance/ The event is presented by: Digital Urban Living Digital Aesthetics Research Center. Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli and Lars Bo Løfgreen Supported by Videnssamfundet and the Italian Culture Institute of Copenhagen. In partnership with Skive Art Museum, ARoS and Studenterhus // Concept // With the growing spread of pervasive digital technologies the public urban space has become open for new forms of both observation and surveillance. Moving away from cameras and directional microphones, face- and voice recognition, the pervasive technologies offer not only the ability to gather and organise huge amounts of dissimilar data, but as well on grounds of these to predict probable patterns of behaviour. Commercial mobile variants of Google Maps, YouTube or Facebook are by far the only ones to make use of these possibilities. Urban games, locative art, flashmob art, pervasive games etc. all represent new forms of observational and aesthetic experiments with how we through technology perceive and make use of the urban space itself. Sousveillance, original French, as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann (Toronto, Canada) to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant. Surveillance denotes the act of watching from above, whereas sousveillance denotes bringing the practice of observation down to human level (ordinary people doing the watching, rather than higher authorities or architectures doing the watching). The conference will be held in conjunction with two digital art exhibitions in the city of Århus (one at ARoS and another at Skive Art Museum) and aims to create a platform for sharing and discussing the topic of surveillance, privacy and control of information, analyzing different creative, artistic and political strategies to produce fluid zones of interventions, both in the urban space and on the net. Main focus is on networking practices and urban actions that contribute to criticize the concept of surveillance, propriety of data and information, showing new activists and visionary strategies to move society toward more inclusive modes of production and sharing knowledge. // Program // SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8 OUTDOORS 11:00-17:00: INTERVENTIONS BY: * Dmytri Kleiner (CA/DE) * Mare Tralla (UK/EE) * Leipziger Kamera (DE) + Space Hijackers (UK) Meeting point: Auditiorium 3, Building 1252, Aarhus University The interventions run simultaneously from 11.30 to 17.00. MONDAY FEBRUARY 9 CONFERENCE At Auditorium 3, Aarhus University 09.00-09.15: INTRODUCTION Tatiana Bazzichelli and Lars Bo Løfgreen (Aarhus University) 09.15-10.45: 1:ST PANEL David Rokeby (CA) and Jakob Jakobsen (DK) Moderator: Christian Ulrik Andersen (Aarhus University) 10.45-11.00: BREAK 11.00-12.30: 2:ND PANEL Shining (IT), Dmytri Kleiner (Canada/DE) Moderator: Tatiana Bazzichelli (Aarhus University) 12.30-13.00: PUBLIC DISCUSSION 13.00-14.00: LUNCH 14.15-15.45: 3:RD PANEL Mare Tralla (EE/UK) and Leipziger Kamera (DE)/ Space Hijackers (UK) Moderator: Lars Bo Løfgreen (Aarhus University) 15.45-16.00: BREAK 16.00-17.30: 4:TH PANEL Alexei Shulgin (RU) and Manu Luksch (UK) Moderator: Søren Pold (Aarhus University) 17.30-18.00: PUBLIC DISCUSSION 18.30-20.00: DINNER MONDAY FEBRUARY 9 EVENING PERFORMANCES 20.15-20.30: INTRODUCTION by Tatiana Bazzichelli, Lars Bo Løfgreen 20.30-21.30: KONRAD BECKER (AT) 22.00-23.00: GOODIEPAL (DK) More info: http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Sousveillance - Outdoor Interventions
OUTDOORS INTERVENTIONS Sunday, February 8, 11.30-17.00, Aarhus City Within: Sousveillance. The Art of Inverse Surveillance Conference, public interventions and concert February 8th - 9th, 2009, Aarhus University http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance *deadSwap* by Dmytri Klenier and the Telekommunisten (CA/DE) deadSwap is a social experiment exploring the possibilities of creating an entirely off-line fire-sharing and communications platform where people pass a USB memory stick from one to another. The co-ordination of the passing-on of the stick is done through an anonymous SMS gateway, meaning that the system does not require Internet availability, and also that with certain precautions can be a very private system that is quite difficult to monitor. The system was developed for Sousveillance and the first version of the system will be launched during the event, creating the world's first deadSwap network in Aarhus. The deadSwap workshop by Dmytri Kleiner (CA) starts at 12.30 at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Helsingforsgade 14, 8200 Århus N, Wiener Building, meeting room. http://www.deadswap.net *In:Visible Aarhus* by Leipziger Kamera (DE) and Space Hijackers (UK) A geographic and psychogeographic game exploring surveillance and the surveyed. Do we exist outside what others can see – a cropped view of society? As we progress towards a world of human watchtowers and digital spies, are we but fugitives from a camera's eyes? Observing you observing us observing you as you watch us watching you watching us. Beware of inverse radio CCTV broadcasts. Spot the eco-friendly anti-surveillance head gear. Learn everything you never wanted to know about everybody. Practice your evil chuckles. http://leipzigerkamera.twoday.net/ http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/ *Self-surveillance / Protected* By Mare Tralla (EE/UK) In Aarhus Mare Tralla combines two of her public interventions 'Self-surveillance' and 'Protected'. In a tradition of feminist performace art in Self-surveillance Tralla ironically takes the act of surveillance and protection of her own body into her own hands. The artist equips herself with portable self-surveillance system, embedded into her clothing which is made visible by warning sign in her T-shirt and ironic large flowers housing the cameras. The system observes both the outside environment and her body, tracking and recording the movement and changes of space and body as the artist simply walks through different environments. The resulting 'video evidence' is a poetic animation of space and body but totally useless as surveillance evidence. In Protected Tralla continues the almost invisible actions as a series of live easel painting performances, 'tracking the movements' of CCTV cameras throughout city spaces. The artist will evoke this 16th century tradition, which set easel painters free from the constraints of painting on walls or fixed, architectural schemes and increased the social and intellectual status of the individual artist. By painting the motives of CCTV cameras she draws attention to the hidden, invisible or un-noticeable, in contemporary urban environment. The actions often take place in public locations, where photographing CCTV systems is not officially allowed thus also testing the rules and regulations which 'protect' the 'protectors'. The simple action of painting in public is very visible and often provokes reactions from passers-by, who engage with the artist to discuss the issues around surveillance in their lives. http://www.tralla.net Additional info: http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance Digital Aesthetics Research Centre Aarhus http://darc.imv.au.dk/ Sousveillance The Art of Inverse Surveillance Conference, public interventions and concert February 8th - 9th, 2009, Aarhus University http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance/ The event is presented by: Digital Urban Living Digital Aesthetics Research Center. Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli and Lars Bo Løfgreen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] reSource for transmedial culture: Statement of interest
targets to be exploited by the market. However, this is not only a local phenomenon: At this present time, while financial markets are deeply influencing the development of cultural production and, more generally, our daily life flexibility, direct participation and common engagement are becoming pervasive business logics. The progressive involvement of users in the production process generates new possibilities of interaction among peers, but also of hierarchical control. Analysing the topology and the effects of artistic and hacktivist practices in decentralised social networks implies a reflection on power structures, business methodologies as well as on the relationship between art and economy. The social media and social networking phenomenon brings about contradictions and ambiguities. The subject of social networking is constantly transforming, and requires both a theoretical and empirical involvement of researchers and artists, theoreticians and practitioners before it can be fully understood. It becomes necessary to rethink concepts such as innovation and disruption, co-optation and opposition, as a mutual feedback loop, and a two-way disruption. ## reSource - A shared knowledge laboratory The reSource for transmedial culture aims to work towards the creation of a shared knowledge laboratory within transmediale, and a project for local and trans-local distributed networks by organising events, workshops and talks involving artists, hackers, activists, researchers and cultural producers active in the city of Berlin and abroad. The aim of the reSource is to involve communities that not only engage directly with network technologies, but that are also critically reflecting on decentralised and distributed strategies of networking and anti-hegemonic practices, from hackers and activists to feminist, queer, transgender and porn communities. Within this framework, the reSource statement of interest poses the following objectives: - To rethink the concepts of (social) networking, collaborative practices, innovation and participation, through the creation of a platform of distributed networks involving grassroots communities of hackers, artists, performers, activists, curators and cultural producers; - To apply the concept of disruptive innovation to the art field so as to open up a critical perspective on the “network economy”, working in collaboration with local and translocal communities in Berlin and abroad, trying to understand how the market works after de-assembling its strategies and mechanisms of production; - To generate disruptive modalities of art production after the emergence of social media, reflecting on distributive decentralised and socially engaged contexts of participation and innovation; - To analyse the concept of transmedial culture, investigating creative approaches across digital and analogue media, reflecting on the intersections between cultural production, networking and disruptive art practices; - To reflect on the strategies of networked art and hacktivism, by developing an empirical methodology based on mutual exchanges between the members of the (post-) media art scene, cultural producers and researchers in the field of the humanities. The analyses of these subjects necessarily imply sharing methodologies whereby artists, hackers, activists and researchers join together to form practice-oriented contexts of reflection and give feedback to both theory and practice through an interdisciplinary, distributed and polyphonic approach. Artistic and hacker practices are thought therefore both as a resource for producing cultural innovation, but also as a strategic challenge to generate media criticism – and a meta reflection on artistic production in the framework of digital culture and network economy. This statement of interest must be imagined as an initial input and a starting point for further collaboration on the analysis and the production of disruptive hacker and artistic practices in the framework of (social) networking, but also as an input to generate a collective investigation into the practice of networking as an art strategy – and an applied research method. Contacts: Tatiana Bazzichelli: tb...@transmediale.de reSource concept and programme developer Daniela Silvestrin: d...@transmediale.de reSource programme assistant More info: http://www.transmediale.de/beyond/tm-resource -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // reSource concept and programme developer in/compatible // transmediale 2012, 31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 // http://www.transmediale.de join the conversation on the transmediale IRC channel // server: irc.freenode.net | channel: #transmediale | port: 6667 transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen
[spectre] in/compatible Research – Workshop/Conference
in/compatible Research – Workshop/Conference November 16–18, 2011 Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) International PhD workshop and conference, organised by the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living (Aarhus University), in collaboration with the reSource for transmedial culture (transmediale festival, Berlin) and Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität der Künste, Berlin. In the context of developing a platform for knowledge exchange, and research across the arts and sciences, transmediale and the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre/Centre for Digital Urban Living (Aarhus University) have established a partnership to foster new forms of collaborative peer-review and knowledge dissemination. Departing from the theme of the upcoming transmediale festival in 2012: in/compatible, a PhD workshop and conference is taking place on November 16–18, at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität der Künste, Berlin. This event addresses the theme of the transmediale festival in a number of ways: in/compatible interfaces, in/compatible methods, and in/compatible markets, focusing on the unresolved tensions in-between different technologies, their cultures of production and use, as well as the tensions between different approaches to contemporary media culture. The PhD workshop and the conference will lead to a collaborative peer-reviewed publication presented as part of the programme of the festival in 2012. The actual workshop is restricted to the PhD students selected from our Open Call last summer. However, the conference programme will be open to the public. Please note that seating is limited and the language for the three-day conference will be English. Conference Participants: Christian Ulrik Andersen (dk), Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de), Claudia Becker (de), Morten Breinbjerg (dk), Geoff Cox (uk/dk), Kristoffer Gansing (se/de), Andrew Murphie (au), Jussi Parikka (fi), Søren Pold (dk), Cornelia Sollfrank (de). Keynotes: Tiziana Terranova (it), Siegfried Zielinski (de). Artistic Interventions: Alberto de Campo (de), Dmytri Kleiner (ca/de) the Telekommunisten Network. PhD Workshop Participants: Cesar Baio (br/de), Zach Blas (usa), Jacob Gaboury (usa), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de), Ioana Jucan (ro/usa), Tero Karppi (fi), Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen (dk), Magnus Lawrie (uk), Aymeric Mansoux (fr/nl), Rosa Menkman (nl), Gabriel Menotti Gonring (br/uk), Anne Popiel (usa/de), Morten Riis (dk), Lasse Scherffig (de), Matthias Tarasiewicz (at), Marie Thompson (uk), Nina Wenhart (at), Carolin Wiedemann (de). Conference Programme: Day 1 - Wednesday 16 Nov in/compatible interfaces and methods 18.00–18.10 Tatiana Bazzichelli Christian Ulrik Andersen – introduction 18.10–19.00 Keynote: Siegfried Zielinski, moderated by Kristoffer Gansing Panel What methods allow for the investigation of neglected histories and technologies? How to use the tensions between various approaches productively? 19.15¬–20.30 short presentations by Cornelia Sollfrank, Morten Breinbjerg, Jussi Parikka, Søren Pold/Christian Ulrik Andersen and moderated discussion by Claudia Becker. Day 2 - Thursday 17 Nov in/compatible methods and markets 18.30–18.40 introduction 18.40–19.30 Keynote: Tiziana Terranova, moderated by Geoff Cox Panel Knowledge production relates to different economical frameworks, but how to avoid the deadening forces of marketisation? Can this be reconceptualised outside the confines of financial capitalism? 19.45–20.45 short presentations by Andrew Murphie, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Søren Pold/Christian Ulrik Andersen, and moderated discussion by Geoff Cox. 20.45–21.00 transmediale statement - Kristoffer Gansing 21.15–late: open interventions and VJ performances by the workshop participants + bar Day 3 - Friday 18 Nov plenary session 15.00–17.00 What next? A common reflection on in/compatible research practices hosted by the reSource for transmedial culture and moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the participants of the programme and the public audience. Ongoing artistic experiments: ::R15N:: (beta-test) by Dmytri Kleiner the Telekommunisten Network Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum - Experimental studies in deep sea communication by Alberto de Campo More info: http://darc.imv.au.dk/incompatible http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-incompatible-research-workshop-conference -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // reSource concept and programme developer in/compatible // transmediale 2012, 31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 // http://www.transmediale.de join the conversation on the transmediale IRC channel // server: irc.freenode.net | channel: #transmediale | port: 6667 transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen
[spectre] Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking
Ph.d-Defence Tatiana Bazzichelli: Networked Disruption. Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking 5. December 2011, 14:00 to 17:00 Det lille Auditorium, Incuba Science Park, Åbogade 15, Aarhus University, Denmark Networked Disruption Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking In connection with the submission of her PhD dissertation Networked Disruption. Rethinking oppositions in art, hacktivism and the business of social networking to the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University for the award of a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies, Tatiana Bazzichelli will publicly defend her research in an open forum, 14-17 on Monday December 5, 2011, in Det lille Auditorium, Incuba Science Park, Åbogade 15, Aarhus University, Denmark. The objective of this research is to rethink the meaning of oppositional practices in art, hacktivism and the business of social networking. By identifying the emerging contradictions within the current economical and political framework of Web 2.0, hacker and artistic practices are analysed through business instead of in opposition to it. Shedding light on the mutual interferences between networking participation and disruptive business innovation, this research explores the current transformation in political and technological criticism. After the emergence of Web 2.0, the critical framework of art and hacktivism has shifted from developing strategies of opposition to embarking on the art of disruption. Disruption becomes a two-way strategy in networking contexts, a practice to generate criticism, and a methodology to create business innovation. Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in California and in Europe, the author proposes a constellation of social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, such as mail art, Neoism, The Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten collective, The San Francisco Suicide Club, The Cacophony Society, the early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others. Examining committee: Senior Lecturer Olga Goriunova, Dept. of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; Professor Franco Berardi, Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy; Associate Professor Geoff Cox, Dept. of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University (chairman). After the PhD degree there will be a reception in room 229, Nygaard Building, Finlandsgade 21, 8200 Aarhus N. Related programme: Tuesday December 6: Sensibility and Semiocapital Lecture by Franco Berardi Bifo (Respondent: Olga Goriunova). Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditoriet, Nygaard, Aarhus University (12:00-14.00). More info: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=2639 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // reSource concept and programme developer in/compatible // transmediale 2012, 31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 // http://www.transmediale.de join the conversation on the transmediale IRC channel // server: irc.freenode.net | channel: #transmediale | port: 6667 transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] reSource event 001: Trial Crack
reSource event 001: Trial Crack 11-12 May, 2012 General Public, Schoenhauser Allee 167, 10435 Berlin (U2 Senefelder Platz) The reSource transmedial culture berlin comes back after the transmediale festival with a two day programme under the name of Trial Crack, scheduled on May 11-12. The reSource is the new year-round initiative of transmediale festival, in partnership with CTM/DISK, Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien and the Post-Media Lab (Leuphana University of Lueneburg). The reSource is a project of networking, a work in progress based on the inter-connection of genres practices, which aims to create occasions of sharing and reflections by bringing together communities and individuals who work critically with art, technology, politics and identity. The reSource programme is curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (transmediale festival, http://www.transmediale.de/resource). May 11, 2012 ## May 11, 15:00-19:00 @ General Public The first day of Trial Crack proposes a collective discussion on networking methodologies of curating and distributed logic of artistic production with cultural producers based in Berlin. What is the responsibility and the role of cultural institutions engaging with art and digital technologies, towards a critical articulation of culture production? We aim to discuss and share our current reflections and share with the rest of participants ideas on how to build a stronger connection between local - and translocal - agents in the fields of critical media, art and hacktivism in the city. The discussion is introduced by: Tatiana Bazzichelli and Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale), Stéphane Bauer (Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien), Oliver Baurhenn, Jan Rohlf, Remco Schuurbiers (CTM/Disk), Clemens Apprich and Oliver Lerone Schultz (Post-Media Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg), who will open up the discussion to the audience. Confirmed participants are: Reboot.fm, Weise 7, C-Base, Supermarkt, ArtLaboratoryBerlin, Artconnect Berlin, Citizen Kino, Leap Gallery, Liebig12, Skulpturen Park, Visual Berlin, Florian Wüst (Haben und Brauchen), Krystian Woznicki (Berliner Gazette), Panke, Ausland, AV Node Festival, Gegen, Daz, Free Museum, Share Festival, Coded Cultures, re:publica, a.o. Please rsvp via email to confirm your attendance: resou...@transmediale.de. ## Partner event: May 11, 19:00 until late @ LIEBIG12 After the open discussion the programme continues with audio-visual performances at Liebig12 (Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin; U5 Frankfurter Tor). Sound and video installation and rime collage by Holger Bleck (Zeitungspoet) and Allegra Solitude. Performance by Ivana Spinelli and sound layering by Simon Olivie. Performative jamming guests: Ayia Dumplings Catering + Steffen Ullmann on the mix. More info: http://liebig12.wordpress.com May 12, 2012 ## May 12, 13:00-19:00 @ General Public In Berlin, hacker, activist and artistic practices are very much realised outside the realm of artistic institutions. Some of those practices are contributing to transform the economy and the cultural asset of the city, but they are also becoming easy targets to be exploited by the market. Starting from the assumption that the increasing commercialisation of the contexts of sharing and participation is currently transforming the meaning of art and cultural production in Berlin, on May 12 from 13:00 to 19:00, artists, hackers, and gender-situated communities are involved in three different but conceptually linked discussions: Sustainable Disruption (13:00-14:50); Post Privacy (15:30-17:00) and Queer Shifts (17:30-19:00). There is limited space at the venue. Please arrive on time to secure seating. ## Sustainable Disruption, 13.00-14.50 @ General Public: This discussion follows the thread initiated by the reSource market thematic programme at transmediale 2K+12 (www.transmediale.de/content/resource-markets), which reflected on the status of capitalism in a time of crisis, proposing both critical, playful and sustainable alternatives by intervening directly within economical and political systems. In Part 1 (13.00-13.50): Rasa Smite (LV) and Philip Horst (DE) reflect on strategies of sustainability and art production at the interface of urban research and renewable networks, highlighting artistic investigations on migration and integration, economics and ecology. In Part 2 (14.00-14.50): Alexander Müller (DE) and Georgios Papadopoulos (GR) reflect on network strategies of creating disruption among political and economical systems. The scope is to open up a critical perspective, intervening directly on symbols of economic value, national identity and political power. Moderated by Clemens Apprich and Oliver Lerone Schultz. ## Post Privacy, 15.30-17.00 @ General Public: This discussion follows the thread initiated by the reSource network thematic programme at transmediale 2K+12 (http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-networks), which reflected
[spectre] reSource 002: Out of Place, Out of Time
reSource 002: Out of Place, Out of Time 22.08. - 24.08.2012 Opening: 22.08.2012, 15:00 Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' is the second event of the reSource transmedial culture berlin, the new year-round initiative of transmediale festival, a project of networking based on the inter-connection of genres practices, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and developed in cooperation with the reSource partners (CTM/Disk, Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien and the Post-Media Lab/Leuphana University of Lüneburg). reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' presents open discussions, panels, workshops and performances, shedding light on the practices of artists, activists and hackers rethinking critical interventions in the field of art and technology. The three-day event gives both attention to analogue processes of networking (networks out of time) and the idea of shifting of cultural paradigms via network technologies (networks out of place). reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' aims to reflect on modalities of artistic production in the framework of digital culture and network economy, while generating a collective insight into the themes of the upcoming transmediale and CTM festivals. BWPWAP - Back When Pluto Was a Planet is the thematic framework of transmediale 2013 (29.01.-03.02.), which explores the simultaneous displacement and invention that takes place in cultural processes mediated by technology. Alongside, The Golden Age, the theme of the next CTM festival (28.01.-03.02.), draws attention to the increasing abundance of material in the digital era, just waiting to be sourced and reprocessed by generating pastiche, paradox, fusion and morphing. Inspired by these themes, and following the conceptual thread initiated by the previous reSource initiatives, reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' reflects on the issues of re-contextualisation, recombination, montage, displacement, reinvention of socio-cultural paradigms, appropriation, and transformation of an eclectic range of resources through network practices. Such topics are addressed to artistic and activist communities within (and beyond) digital cultural production, with the aim to develop a distributed network of activities in the city of Berlin, as a platform for sharing and visibility for the local and translocal communities working in the field of networking hacktivism and politics. ## Programme Overview ## Wednesday 22 August: 15:00-19:00: Open discussion with cultural producers based in Berlin 19:00-late: Composting the City | Composting the Net Launch presentation with Shu Lea Cheang (tw/fr) ## Thursday 23 August: 10:00-16:00: Workshop 36 15 Circuit Bending [Minitel Hacking] Benjamin Gaulon (fr/ie) and Karl Klomp (nl) for selected participants. Registration: http://www.transmediale.de/node/22282 Break 17:00-17:45: Public presentation 36 15 Circuit Bending [Minitel Hacking] with Benjamin Gaulon (fr/ie) and Karl Klomp (nl) 18:00-19:00: Thematic Introduction of the next transmediale and CTM festivals With: Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale festival) and Jan Rohlf, Oliver Baurhenn (CTM/Disk). 19:15-21:00: Imaginary Networks Panel Discussion With: Dmytri Kleiner (ca/de) the Telekommunisten; Simon Worthington (uk/de), Lutz Wohlrab (de). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) ## Friday 24 August: 10:00-15:00: Mobile Device Forensics Workshop by Johannes P Osterhoff (de) for selected participants. Registration: http://www.transmediale.de/node/22282 Break 15:30-16:15: iPhone Live Public Presentation with Johannes P Osterhoff (de) 16:30-18:30: Networks Out of Hands? Round-table With: Christopher Kullenberg/Stephan Urbach from Telecomix (se/de); Rena Tangens from FoeBuD (de); Lonneke van der Velden/Daniel Reusche via Unlike Us (nl/de); Alejo Duque from labSurlabl (co/ch). Moderated by Oliver Lerone Schultz (de). Dinner Break 20:00-22:30: Book Presentation: Gr-exit: A Speculative Archaeology for the Greek Economy by Georgios Papadopoulos (Vilém Flusser Residency Programme) 20:00: Performative Lecture with Georgios Papadopolous (gr/de) Carsten Lisecki (de) / Performance by Margarita Tsomou (gr/de) 21:30: Book Launch drinks Location: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Admission: free (excl. 10€ Admission fee for the workshop 36 15 Circuit Bending) All parts of the programme will be in English. More information at: http://www.transmediale.de/content/resource-002-out-place-out-time --- Contacts: Tatiana Bazzichelli: reSource curator and programme developer Georgia Nicolau: reSource programme assistant resou...@transmediale.de http://www.transmediale.de/resource Twitter: @transmediale (#tmresource) Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Tel.: (030) 90298-1455. Fax -1453 bethan...@kunstraumkreuzberg.de, www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de Opening hours: daily 12.00 - 19.00
[spectre] Researching BWPWAP: The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice
of transmediale based on continuous network knowledge development and community involvement around the festival throughout the year. The event itself will be an interdisciplinary conference and workshop where PhD students and other participants can engage with members of the three participating institutions and invited international guests. One aspect of the conference will be a writing workshop wherein new digital writing practices and forms of collaborative writing will be explored. Ahead of the conference, invited participants will be asked to take part in an online discussion and collaboration process as an experiment in the peer production of knowledge. After the conference, participants will be involved in the production of a peer-reviewed research newspaper – itself an experiment in new forms of scholarly publication, and to be presented and distributed at transmediale 2013. The event follows on from similar events organised in 2012 and 2011 at Universität der Künste (Berlin), and Aarhus University, respectively. For the publication resulting from the last events, visit the following. http://darc.imv.au.dk/worldofthenewspaper.pdf http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION We invite proposals that take diverse perspectives to open up some of the paradoxes of contemporary thinking and anachronisms of practices that employ communications technologies. In the selection of participants, we are looking to assemble a diversity of research traditions and disciplines represented, including 'practice-based research'. The aim is to develop participants' individual research projects as well as foster networking. PhD students can be awarded 5 ECTS for their participation. Although the workshop is primarily aimed at international PhD researchers, it is also open to researchers who are pursuing research without institutional support. We are seeking proposals consisting of a biography (500 characters), a statement on current research/description of PhD project (1000 characters), and an abstract for a short presentation (1500 characters). The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2012. Here you can submit your proposals. http://www.transmediale.de/node/18472/ More info: http://darc.imv.au.dk/ http://www.transmediale.de/resource http://www.leuphana.de/inkubator/digitale-medien.html Partners: Hybrid Publishing Lab, Segmented Media Offerings and Post-Media Lab as part of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg Digital Media Incubator -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // curator and programme developer reSource transmedial culture berlin // http://www.transmediale.de/resource BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 29.01 – 03.02, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin // http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Researching BWPWAP: International Research Conference and PhD Workshop
##Researching BWPWAP International Research Conference and PhD Workshop Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany 22-24 November 2012 - Centre for Digital Cultures, Lüneburg Organised by: Digital Aesthetics/Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale festival ##Concept The international research conference and PhD workshop takes next transmediale’s thematic framework as a broad starting point, and is a chance for researchers to share ideas and development processes across and beyond the time/space of academic research paradigms. The challenge is to salvage what there is to be salvaged from network culture and digital media for research, and vice versa. The conference and workshop, which precedes transmediale, asks how BWPWAP can be interpreted in the context of research culture that has been significantly destabilised by network culture and digital media. If Pluto didn't exactly fall prey to an epistemological break or a scientific revolution, but rather to a mundane administrative procedure – a redefinition of what constitutes a planet and the invention of the category dwarf planet – then what does this say about contemporary research culture? Is research today occupied more with mundane acts of recategorisation, and – after Bologna – with what Lyotard already called performativity? Or does it still engage the kind of marvel and wonder that so many ascribe to Pluto and that BWPWAP captures as a cultural term? If BWPWAP captures a time when transmedial culture was researched outside academia, how does network culture and digital media then contribute to and transform research culture, forcing it out of its closet and, if not into the solar system, then at least beyond the academy? Around 20 international PhD students have been selected after submitting their research abstracts via a public call. Students and researchers will meet at the Luphana University to present their activities and reflect on further networked research practices, which will culminate into the publication of a P2P reviewed newspaper presented in the framework of transmediale 2013. The event follows on from similar events organised in 2012 and 2011 at Universität der Künste (Berlin), and Aarhus University, respectively. For the publication resulting from the last events, visit the following. http://darc.imv.au.dk/worldofthenewspaper.pdf http://darc.imv.au.dk/publicinterfaces ##Participants: Mikkel Bech Hansen, Marcello Lussana, Sheila Ribeiro, Gabriel Vanegas, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Andrew Newman, Florian Schmidt, Renée Ridgway, Anne Sophie Witzke Helen Pritchard, Micha Cardenas, Ruxandra Bularca, Clemens Apprich, Giorgos Papadoulos, Francesco Macarone Palmieri, Vanni Brusadin, Andrew Prior, Magda Tyzlik Carver, Nora O' Murchú, Stevphen Shukaitis, Joanna Figiel, Anke Haarmann, Silvana Carotenuto, Michael Goddard, Oliver Schultz, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Kristoffer Gansing, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Armin Beverungen, Morten Breinbjerg, Yara Guasque, Søren Pold, Josie Berry-Slater, Matthias Fuchs, Mercedes Bunz. ##Papers available on: http://www.researching-bwpwap.net/articles ##Programme: N.B: Workshop is closed to participants selected via a public call. http://www.researching-bwpwap.net/articles/timetable Read more: http://www.researching-bwpwap.net/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator reSource transmedial culture berlin // http://www.transmediale.de/resource BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 29.01 – 03.02, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin // http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] reSource 004: Networked Disruption
reSource 004: Networked Disruption Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 20:00 - late c-base (Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin, S/U Jannowitzbrücke) reSource 004: Networked Disruption reflects on how the current techno-economic paradigm of Web 2.0 has challenged notions of art and hacktivism. Named after the just-published book by Tatiana Bazzichelli Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking (DARC Press, 2013), the event discusses new strategies of political and social criticism, by reflecting on mutual interferences between art, hacktivism and business disruption. Hackers, activists, artists, practitioners and theoreticians are invited to reflect with us on the current development of artistic and hacker practices in the context of social networking. How can hackers and artists be critical in the business context of social media? Is the business of social media co-opting DIY culture? Is criticism only possible through opposition? These are some of the questions we will share with the public during the panel. By proposing the concept of disruptive business as an art practice, reSource 004: Networked Disruption becomes an opportunity to imagine new possible routes of social and political action. The event presents a constellation of social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, from the earlier development of network culture to today. We will reflect on the meaning of disruption today by connecting practices of networked art and hacking in California and Europe, such as mail art, Neoism, The Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten collective, The San Francisco Suicide Club, The Cacophony Society, the early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others. Networked Disruption is presented by Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de), in conversation with Michael Dieter (au/nl), Alexander Müller/Hedonist International (de), and the public of c-base. Moderated by Kristoffer Gansing (se/de). After the book presentation and discussion, the dj/vj/xj Podinski (XLterrestrials + CiTiZEN KiNO) will mix a culture jammer's smorgasbord of counterculture beats and hijacked eyecandy from the 90s and up to various post-9/11 situations. Expect un-soothing audio-visual chaos! More info here: http://disruptiv.biz/networked-disruption-the-book/ http://www.transmediale.de/de/resource Download the book here: http://disruptiv.biz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Networked-Disruption-web-version-15.03.2013.pdf -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator reSource transmedial culture berlin // http://www.transmediale.de/resource BWPWAP - transmediale 2013 29.01 – 03.02, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin // http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale transmediale | festival for art and digital culture berlin Klosterstr. 68 10179 Berlin, Germany | fon +49 30 24749 761 | fax +49 30 24749 763 Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Volker Heller | Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ReSource 005: The Medium of Treason - The Bradley Manning Case
ReSource 005: The Medium of Treason The Bradley Manning Case: Agency or Misconduct in a Digital Society? An intervention @ Urban Spree Gallery (S/U Warschauer Straße, Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin), 5 May 2013, starts at 17, free entry. with: Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Iceland), Andy Müller Maguhn (Germany), John Goetz (USA). Moderated by Diani Barreto (USA), introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DE). http://www.transmediale.de/resource-005/the-medium-of-treason On April 5, 2010, the Internet leak website WikiLeaks, published a video titled Collateral Murder, where a United States Apache helicopter fired on civilians in New Baghdad in 2007. The video shows American military personnel shooting and killing 11 individuals whose cameras were ostensibly mistaken for weapons. Two children were also gravely wounded on the scene. Two of those people killed were war correspondents for Reuters, the 22-year-old Reuters’ photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver, 40-year-old Saeed Chmagh. After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own Rules of Engagement. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, MP in Iceland, co-produced the video in 2010 with encrypted footage that had been leaked to WikiLeaks by an unnamed source, now revealed as Pfc. Bradley Manning. In May 2010, the 22-year-old American Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was arrested after telling Adrian Lamo, a hacker in the US, that he had leaked the airstrike video, along with a video of another airstrike and around 260.000 diplomatic cables, to WikiLeaks. Manning has been held in detention by the US military ever since. He has already pleaded guilty on 10 counts that could subject him to 20 years under multiple violations of the Espionage Act of 1917 and of aiding the enemy”. In this highly polarizing case, lawyers, civil rights organizations and journalists are insisting that Bradley Manning had disclosed the information under the aegis of his 1st Amendment Rights, which protects Freedom of Speech. In light of the charges he faces, any leak of classified information to any media organization could potentially be interpreted as an act of treason. This event will afford the distinguished guests the opportunity to re-visit the making of the Collateral Murder video three years on, to discuss the United States v. Bradley Manning trial on June 3rd, 2013, which has been hailed the most important National Security trial in the history of the US (NYT Pentagon Papers counsel James C. Goodale) and how it has engendered a pattern of intimidation to threaten and silence whistleblowers, cyberactivists, journalists and news organizations such as Wikileaks, and the implications concerning the future of political agency, free speech, freedom of information and the sanctity of the Press. In this context, the speakers will also discuss the reprisals and political ethics in the cases of information disclosure and judicial overreach brought against hackers such as Jeremy Hammond, Barrett Brown, and the tragic surmise of Aaron Swartz. The speakers will furthermore evaluate the groundwork of new initiatives for civil society platforms intended to monitor, lobby and support legislation that strengthen freedom of information as well as providing protections for sources and whistleblowers in the rapidly accelerating complexities of the information age. This event is organised by the reSource transmedial culture berlin of the transmediale festival in partnership with re:publica. The event is co-curated with Diani Barreto, and it is one of events that will kick off this year's re:publica13. With the kind support of the www.freebradleymanning.net initiative Berlin Guests: Birgitta Jónsdóttir MP, Iceland. Andy Müller Maguhn (Germany), Board Member of the Wau Holland Stiftung John Goetz (USA), NDR's investigative editor at ARD-Hauptstadtstudio and member of the investigative team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Moderated by Diani Barreto (USA), Media activist. Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DE), curator reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale. Location: Urban Spree Gallery (S/U Warschauer Straße, Revaler Straße 99, 10245 Berlin), 5 May 2013, starts at 17.00, free entry. reSource 005 will be thematically followed by another event within the re:publica programme organised in the framework of the cooperation between re:publica and the reSource transmedial culture of transmediale: Iceland could have been innovative - Participatory democracy. With Birgitta Jónsdóttir, 6 May, 13:30 - 14:00, at Station (U Gleisdreieck, Luckenwalder Straße 4-6, 10963 Berlin). http://re-publica.de/sessions/iceland-could-have-been-innovative-participatory-democracy reSource transmedial culture berlin: http://www.transmediale.de/resource transmediale festival: http://www.transmediale.de
[spectre] reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013
reSource 006: Overflow - 12-14 September 2013 Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin Concert at Mindpirates e.V. ## Discussions, workshops performances In the current development of digital culture we are experiencing a condition of overflow, where more information is being transmitted than machines can process, and humans can handle. The urgent pressure of issues such as ownership and privacy related to data overflow makes us wonder if producing more data means generating more control. The way complex data is going to be distributed and shared requires urgent analysis. Increasing information brings additional waste, which interferes with our physical resources. But this condition of overflow also represents the growing desire to be part of an extended connectivity that generates more opportunities of networking, communication and grassroots participation. How do we find conscious ways of activity/activism, both in the digital and the physical, without just becoming part of a system of abundant accumulation? This event highlights various strategies for rethinking our digital and physical spaces, and imagining a more sustainable and conscious online/offline presence by bringing together artists, activists and cultural producers active in Berlin and beyond. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. www.transmediale.de/resource ## Programme ## Thu, 12 September 16:00-19:00 # Open Debate: reSource Chats - Networking Berlin's transmedial culture # Screening and presentation of the video: Art Account Deutsche Bank (2013) By Carsten Lisecki A glimpse on the adverse economic environment, where the artists have to survive. On 5 April 2013, on the occasion of the opening of the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin, artists were invited to bring an artwork to be exhibited in the new DB Gallery in Unter den Linden. Hundreds of artists queued for hours in the cold to have the “opportunity” to show their works. The video highlights the conditions of artistic production that lead to such desperate and politically uncomfortable choices, reflecting on the precarious role of the artist and the difficulty of acting collectively. # Conversations with independent cultural producers and curators. With: Christian de Lutz / Art Laboratory Berlin, Dr. Podinski / CiTiZEN KiNO, Ela Kagel / Supermarkt, John McKiernan, Kai Kreuzmüller and Daniel Franke / LEAP, Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri / Gegen, Erika Siekstelyte / Panke e.V., Allega Solitude / Liebig12. Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. This debate wants to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the condition of being trans-genre in the cultural landscape of Berlin, the hybrid character of activities that are mixing media, practices and languages, which often result in lack of political and cultural recognition and of sustainable funds. The discussion is based on the reSource Chats project, a creative montage of interviews with various culture producers and local spaces in Berlin curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. # Presentation: Mapping the reSource network By John Wild, Ph.D. Programme in Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London. From May to September 2013 John Wild worked in collaboration with the reSource transmedial culture berlin, to map the reSource network of independent technology-based art and hacker spaces in the city. This presentation gives an overview of the project's outcomes: a functional Android Mobile Phone application with the aim of increasing the visibility of the independent art/hack spaces in Berlin, and sonic abstractions of the network. # Agents Recruiting for deadSwap // Numbers Station. By the Telekommunisten network. Activists. Whistleblowers. Spies. Covert action requires clandestine networks. Data hidden in public space. Seemingly random numbers spoken on the radio. What does it mean? There must be a system! How do you join the network? Can you be counted on? Are you committed? Do you have what it takes to join the network? Telekommunisten will be recruiting agents for deadSwap during reSource 006. deadSwap: a game of cloak and data. The edge of intelligence... 19:00-21:00 # Launch of the transmediale Magazine Introduced by Kristoffer Gansing. DJ-Set by Lukas Grundmann. Buffet Drinks transmediale/magazine is a new format of transmediale, a magazine on art and digital culture which marks the continued presence of transmediale in the city and internationally beyond the festival itself. A highlight in the first issue is a montage of our ongoing “reSource chats” series of conversations that have focused on the changing conditions of cultural practices in the city. The magazine also features a new visual identity for transmediale and introduces afterglow as the theme of the 2014 festival. ## Fri, 13 September 13:00-16:00 # Workshop Leakage Current By Jamie Allen David Gauthier (restricted to 12 participants) Part of Critical Infrastructure: reSource/transmediale
[spectre] Disrupting Business at Art Meets Radical Openness Festival, Linz
Dear all, if you would make it to Austria next week, I am curating a Disrupting Business Conference Track at the Art Meets Radical Openness Festival in Linz (28 May - 1 June, 2014). The festival, under the theme Autonomy (im)possible?, is dedicated to art, hacktivism and open culture and organised by Us(c)hi Reiter - servus.at, with the contributions of external curators: among myself, Heath Bunting, and Margaritha Köhl, and the involvement of many other people (read more here: http://www.radical-openness.org/2014/team). Below is a summary about the Disrupting Business Conference Track. ## Disrupting Business at Art Meets Radical Openness Festival The increasing commercialisation of sharing and networking contexts is transforming the meaning of art and that of business. Business is progressively adopting hacker and artistic strategies of disruption in the field of social media and information technology. In the business culture, disruption not only means rupture, but innovation and the re-design of behavioural tendencies, acting in ways that the market does not expect. The Wikipedia Encyclopaedia shows the example of 'new-market disruption' caused by the GNU/ Linux Operating System, which initially was inferior in performance to other server operating systems like Unix and Windows NT, but by being less expensive and collectively improved, in 2010 Linux was installed in 87.8% of the worlds 500 fastest supercomputers. As pointed out by Tatiana Bazzichelli in her book 'Networked Disruption' (2013) and in 'Disrupting Business' (co-edited with Geoff Cox, 2013), to investigate the progressive commercialisation of sharing and networking platforms, it is necessary to understand business culture from within. What is the challenge facing artists and activists working on a critical dimension of networking? The notion of disruptive business becomes a means for describing immanent practices of hackers, artists, networkers and entrepreneurs, working consciously on artistic, political and technological practices. Disruption becomes a means for a new form of criticism. Saturday May 31, 19:00-19:40 ## Disrupting Business: Towards a Critique of Art Activism by Tatiana Bazzichelli http://www.radical-openness.org/programm/2014/disrupting-business-towards-critique-art-activism At the core of this presentation is Tatiana Bazzichelli's research on business disruption as artistic and activist practice. Her hypothesis, described in the book 'Networked Disruption' (2013) is that mutual interferences between art, hacktivism and the business of social networking have changed the meaning and contexts of political and technological criticism. Hackers and artists have been active agents in business innovation, while at the same time also undermining business. Artists and hackers use disruptive techniques of networking within the framework of social media, opening up a critical perspective towards business to generate unpredictable feedback and unexpected reactions; business enterprises apply disruption as a form of innovation to create new markets and network values, which are often just as unpredictable. Bazzichelli proposes the concept of the Art of Disrupting Business as a form of artistic practice within the current economical and political framework. The notion of disrupting business becomes a means for reflecting on practices of hackers, artists, networkers and entrepreneurs, highlighting empirical and theoretical interconnections and contradictions, as multiple layers of intervention. Saturday May 31, 20:30 - 22:30 ## Openness and Liberty as Business Disruption Panel with Marc Garrett /Furtherfield, Karlessi /Ippolita collective, Nathaniel Tkacz /MoneyLab. Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. http://www.radical-openness.org/programm/2014/openness-and-liberty-business-disruption This panel traces the shift in the meaning of openness and liberty in relation to forms of business disruption. Since some years a certain vocabulary of freedom and peer collaboration has been adopted by the rhetoric of IT business and social networking. Do-It-Yourself, sharing knowledge, hackability, and similar concepts first witnessed in the underground interventionist realm of hacker culture and networked art are today the core business for many enterprises. Many hackers and activists have pointed out that the rhetoric behind Web 2.0 has been via a progressive appropriation – and often, disambiguation – of hacker and cyber utopias of the 1980s-1990s. In this panel activists and critical thinkers reflect on the subject of co-optation of radical values by business models, shedding light on the constant paradox of being functional to the system while trying to disrupt it. Are openness and liberty forms of business disruption by empowering flexible mechanisms of revenues and the technical genealogy of anarcho-capitalism? # Insider Liberties: A Technical Genealogy of Cryptography by Karlessi. From cypherpunks to WikiLeaks and beyond. We will trace
[spectre] DRONES - Eyes From A Distance, April 17-18 Berlin
DRONES - Eyes From A Distance # On Drone-Systems and their Strategies Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Schedule: 17th of April 2015 (17.30-21.30), 18th of April 2015 (16.00-20.30) Admission: 5 Euro Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/drones Opening event of the Disruption Network Lab. Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Brandon Bryant (former drone operator and US Air Force veteran, founder of the Project Red Hand, US); John Goetz (investigative journalist, DE); Ebaa Rezeq (blogger, Palestine-Gaza); Asmaa Al-Ghul (Palestinian feminist journalist, Palestine-Gaza, video contribute); Chantal Meloni (criminal law researcher, IT/DE); Laura Lucchini (journalist, IT/DE); Tonje Hessen Schei (filmmaker, director of the film DRONE, NO); Jack Serle (data journalist, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK); Dave Young (artist, musician and researcher, IE); Marc Garrett (activist and curator, UK). With the support of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. This two-days event will present keynotes, panel presentations, round tables, and a film screening. By bringing into a dialogue a former drone operator, investigative journalists, criminal law researchers, filmmakers, activists, artists and critical thinkers, we want to reflect on the power of drones in surveillance contexts, on the progressive automatism of conflicts, the invisibility of military operation applications, and their consequences on the civil society. Furthermore, we want to analyze the scary fascination of the unknown that surrounds drone-systems, discussing on the application of drone technology and surveillance tools as input for political, social and artistic criticism. The first modern battlefield unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Israeli Tadiran Mastiff, flew in 1973, but only recently drones started to be used as a pervasive weapon for military purposes, adopted within the United States by the military, and the CIA after 9/11, and primarily applied in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Alongside, drones are used as technological tools by DIYers, as sources of areal documentation by journalists and filmmakers, as delivery systems by corporations, getting accessible for widespread usage by civil society. What are the politics and the regime of power beyond drone-systems? Which are the consequences both on militant networks and civil society of an increasing automatism of conflicts? Can we track down the hidden strategies that move target-killings? Can we understand better drone technology? This event combines reflections on the political and technological infrastructure of drone-systems, the use of them in massive and weaponised military programmes, and the artistic and activist response to this. More Information: Disruption Network Lab / http://www.disruptionlab.org Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien Media partner: Furtherfield.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Networked Disruption: The Exhibition - Opening March 11, Ljubljana
Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and Business Group exhibition and side programme Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli Produced by Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana - in collaboration with several partners: www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption Exhibition @ Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia / March 11 – April 3, 2015. Opening March 11, 8pm With: Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation Front, Burning Man Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Julian Oliver, Laura Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther Blissett, Mail Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club, Telekommunisten, Trevor Paglen. Seminar @ Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia /March 11 – 12, 2015: http://www.aksioma.org/press/networked.disruption.zip With: Annie Machon (UK), Bani Brusadin (ES), Baruch Gottlieb (CA/DE), Dmytri Kleiner (CA/DE), Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Ida Hiršenfelder (SI), Janez Janša (SI), John Law (US), Loretta Borrelli (IT), Luther Blissett (IT), Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DE), Vittore Baroni (IT), Vuk Ćosić (SI). In the business world, disruption means to introduce into the market an innovation that the market does not expect. This innovation comes from within the market itself. Transferred into the field of art and activism, disruption means to generate practices and interventions that are unexpected, and play within the systems under scrutiny. Art, hacktivism and business are often intertwined, generating a feedback loop of revolutions and co-optations that is functional to the development of capitalism. Capitalism needs our revolutions because they generate new lifestyles, products and practices that create new markets and consumer desires. Similarly, systems of power need our resistance and opposition because they serve to increase security and forms of control. We need to find new strategies that go beyond the mere act of opposition and that are harder to appropriate. Networked Disruption is an exhibition and a series of events produced by Aksioma and Drugo more in collaboration with several partners and curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. The exhibition, hosted by Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, is centred on the concept of Networked Disruption, as an opportunity to show new possible routes of social and political action in the line of disruption. It is based on Bazzichelli's book Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking/(DARC Press, The Digital Aesthetics Research Centre of Aarhus University, 2013). The exhibition shows a diverse constellation of networking projects that aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of networking: Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation Front, Burning Man Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Julian Oliver, Laura Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther Blissett, Mail Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club, Telekommunisten, and Trevor Paglen. In this exhibition we adopt the concept of disruption from business and we propose works that emerge from within political, economical, technological and art systems. They play with their power logic generating virality, anonymity, semantic confusion, multiple truths, and disruption. Diverse points of view are combined, among the groups and within the groups themselves. By keeping such connections open without reaching a curatorial synthesis, we invite visitors to create their own path in the line of disruption. The artworks and collective projects are conceptually and visually interlinked in the exhibition spaces, which constitutes a network of networks. By applying the strategy of working from within”, some sections of the show are conceptualised in collaboration with people deeply involved in the networks under scrutiny: Vittore Baroni (Mail Art), Florian Cramer (Neoism), Gabriella Coleman (Anonymous), John Law (Suicide Club and Cacophony Society), Andrea Natella (The Luther Blissett Project) and members of the Anna Adamolo network. This choice reflects the perspective that a new methodology of curating a research should open a metaphorical (and physical) space to encourage and provoke feedback loops among theory and practice, and among subjects and objects of analysis. In the exhibition and seminar, we involve actors who directly engage with hacktivism, art, civil liberties and social networking exposing contradictions of capitalistic logics and power systems. Such interventions hijack the logic of business itself, appropriating and détourning it by operating disruption. The challenge is to collectively rethink oppositional hacktivist and artistic strategies within the framework of (social) networking, information economy and increasingly invasive corporations and government agencies. Project's webpage: http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption Seminar full programme
[spectre] Reminder: DRONES - Eyes From A Distance, April 17-18 Berlin
DRONES - Eyes From A Distance # On Drone-Systems and their Strategies Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Schedule: 17th of April 2015 (17.30-21.30), 18th of April 2015 (16.00-20.30) Admission: 5 Euro Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/drones Opening event of the Disruption Network Lab. Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Brandon Bryant (former drone operator and US Air Force veteran, founder of the Project Red Hand, US); John Goetz (investigative journalist, DE); Ebaa Rezeq (blogger, Palestine-Gaza); Asmaa Al-Ghul (Palestinian feminist journalist, Palestine-Gaza, video contribute); Chantal Meloni (criminal law researcher, IT/DE); Laura Lucchini (journalist, IT/DE); Tonje Hessen Schei (filmmaker, director of the film DRONE, NO); Jack Serle (data journalist, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK); Dave Young (artist, musician and researcher, IE); Marc Garrett (activist and curator, UK). With the support of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. This two-days event will present keynotes, panel presentations, round tables, and a film screening. By bringing into a dialogue a former drone operator, investigative journalists, criminal law researchers, filmmakers, activists, artists and critical thinkers, we want to reflect on the power of drones in surveillance contexts, on the progressive automatism of conflicts, the invisibility of military operation applications, and their consequences on the civil society. Furthermore, we want to analyze the scary fascination of the unknown that surrounds drone-systems, discussing on the application of drone technology and surveillance tools as input for political, social and artistic criticism. The first modern battlefield unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Israeli Tadiran Mastiff, flew in 1973, but only recently drones started to be used as a pervasive weapon for military purposes, adopted within the United States by the military, and the CIA after 9/11, and primarily applied in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Alongside, drones are used as technological tools by DIYers, as sources of areal documentation by journalists and filmmakers, as delivery systems by corporations, getting accessible for widespread usage by civil society. What are the politics and the regime of power beyond drone-systems? Which are the consequences both on militant networks and civil society of an increasing automatism of conflicts? Can we track down the hidden strategies that move target-killings? Can we understand better drone technology? This event combines reflections on the political and technological infrastructure of drone-systems, the use of them in massive and weaponised military programmes, and the artistic and activist response to this. More Information: Disruption Network Lab / http://www.disruptionlab.org Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien Media partner: Furtherfield.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings
CYBORG # Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Date: 29th of May 2015 (17.00-21.30), 30th of May 2015 (16.00-21.30). Admission: 5 Euro per day. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/cyborg In English language. Second event of the Disruption Network Lab, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Francesca Da Rimini (artist and cyberfeminist, AU); Virginia Barratt (performer and cyberfeminist, AU); Jack Halberstam (theorist on gaga feminism and queer failure, USA); Franco Bifo Berardi (sociologist and philosopher, IT, video contribution); Helena Velena (trans/gender hacktivist, and technologist, IT); Massimo Canevacci (cultural anthropologist, IT/BR); Stefan Greiner (co-founder of Cyborg e.V.); Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri (socio-anthropologist, cultural producer, DJ, IT/DE); Janez Janša (artist and curator, SI); Agnese Trocchi (artist and hacktivist, IT); Magdalena Freudenschuss (gender theory researcher, DE); Christopher Coenen (researcher, DE); Mariano Equizzi (filmmaker, IT/BG); Paolo Bigazzi Alderigi (sound designer, IT); Giacomo Verde (artist and activist, IT, video contribution) This two day event presents keynote speeches, panels and live cinema reflecting on the relationships between identity, sexuality, technology and politics. Hackers, cyberfeminists, (trans)gender activists, artists and transhumanists meet to expose power structures embedded in society and our everyday life. The event is built around the international book launch of The Cyborg: A Study of the Artificial Man, written by political Sci-Fi theorist Antonio Caronia (Genoa, 1944 – Milan, 2013), published by Meson Press / Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Starting from the book of Caronia and going beyond it, the analysis culminates discussing the most recent frontiers of biotechnology and transhumanism. Antonio Caronia was a political activist during the 1977 revolution in Italy, turning after that to the study of mass culture and communication theory, and about the relationship between science, technology, identity, and cultural imagination. The Cyborg is crucial to the understanding of the development of digital culture from the 1980s until today, not only in Italy, but internationally. Adopting Science Fiction and the critical reflection on technology and the body as a methodology of cultural criticism, the challenge is to generate new activist, artist and hacker interventions. What does Cyborg mean today? Which new configurations are possible to provoke critical awareness and agency through sexuality, the body and technology? Do we still need to speak about a body or should we go beyond physical boundaries to reflect critically on power structures in a time of economic crisis and increasing technological surveillance? More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tb...@disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) dani...@disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) k...@disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Supported by the Italian Culture Institute of Berlin. In collaboration with the Hybrid Publishing Lab, CDC/Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Meson Press, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen, and Aksioma - Institute of Contemporary Art Ljubljana. Media partners: Furtherfield.org; ExBerliner.com. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings
CYBORG # Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Date: 29th of May 2015 (17.00-21.30), 30th of May 2015 (16.00-21.30). Admission: 5 Euro per day. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/cyborg In English language. Second event of the Disruption Network Lab, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Francesca Da Rimini (artist and cyberfeminist, AU); Virginia Barratt (performer and cyberfeminist, AU); Jack Halberstam (theorist on gaga feminism and queer failure, USA); Franco Bifo Berardi (sociologist and philosopher, IT, video contribution); Helena Velena (trans/gender hacktivist, and technologist, IT); Massimo Canevacci (cultural anthropologist, IT/BR); Stefan Greiner (co-founder of Cyborg e.V.); Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri (socio-anthropologist, cultural producer, DJ, IT/DE); Janez Janša (artist and curator, SI); Agnese Trocchi (artist and hacktivist, IT); Magdalena Freudenschuss (gender theory researcher, DE); Christopher Coenen (researcher, DE); Mariano Equizzi (filmmaker, IT/BG); Paolo Bigazzi Alderigi (sound designer, IT); Giacomo Verde (artist and activist, IT, video contribution) This two day event presents keynote speeches, panels and live cinema reflecting on the relationships between identity, sexuality, technology and politics. Hackers, cyberfeminists, (trans)gender activists, artists and transhumanists meet to expose power structures embedded in society and our everyday life. The event is built around the international book launch of The Cyborg: A Study of the Artificial Man, written by political Sci-Fi theorist Antonio Caronia (Genoa, 1944 – Milan, 2013), published by Meson Press / Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Starting from the book of Caronia and going beyond it, the analysis culminates discussing the most recent frontiers of biotechnology and transhumanism. Antonio Caronia was a political activist during the 1977 revolution in Italy, turning after that to the study of mass culture and communication theory, and about the relationship between science, technology, identity, and cultural imagination. The Cyborg is crucial to the understanding of the development of digital culture from the 1980s until today, not only in Italy, but internationally. Adopting Science Fiction and the critical reflection on technology and the body as a methodology of cultural criticism, the challenge is to generate new activist, artist and hacker interventions. What does Cyborg mean today? Which new configurations are possible to provoke critical awareness and agency through sexuality, the body and technology? Do we still need to speak about a body or should we go beyond physical boundaries to reflect critically on power structures in a time of economic crisis and increasing technological surveillance? More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tb...@disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) dani...@disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) k...@disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Supported by the Italian Culture Institute of Berlin. In collaboration with the Hybrid Publishing Lab, CDC/Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Meson Press, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen, and Aksioma - Institute of Contemporary Art Ljubljana. Media partners: Furtherfield.org; ExBerliner.com. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Launch of Code Red anti-surveillance initiative, April 20, c-base
Dear all, I would like to invite you to attend the Berlin launch of a new, international anti-surveillance initiative, Code Red, led by Simon Davies – father of the international privacy activist movement, and Annie Machon, former MI5 intelligence officer turned whistleblower. https://logbuch.c-base.org/archives/2373 Date: 20th April Time: 20:00 Place: C-base, Rungestr. 20, 10179 Berlin What happens when the forces of government surveillance are confronted by the combined power of the world's most renowned technologists, whistleblowers and privacy activists? Answer: meltdown! On Monday 20th April, C-Base will host the launch of this very initiative. Code Red involves such figures as Tor's Jacob Appelbaum, former NSA technical director William Binney, crypto pioneer Whitfield Diffie, security guru Bruce Schneier along with a spectrum of influential activists from US presidential candidates to hard-core privacy campaigners in fifteen countries. Led by Simon Davies – father of the international privacy activist movement, and Annie Machon – former MI5 intelligence officer turned whistleblower, Code Red aims to raise the heat on resistance to the surveillance state. It will be a strategic think-tank, clearing house and network hub for technologists and activists across the world. In this event, Davies and Machon will outline their plans and set out Code Red's program for the coming year. All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // programme curator http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] A GAME OF YOU: Into the Social Media Vortex
A GAME OF YOU # Into the Social Media Vortex Locations: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Events: Spektrum, Bürknerstraße 12, 12047, Berlin. Schedule: 8th of August 2015 (17.00-23.00, + open end bar), 9th of August 2015 (20.30-22.30 + open end bar). Admission: 5 Euro (Sat), 2 Euro (Sun). Performance events are donation based. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/a-game-of-you In English language. Third event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Gabriel S Moses (sequential artist and graphic novelist, IL/DE); Zoe Quinn (video game developer and artist, author of Depression Quest, and founder of the Crash Override Network, USA); Matthias Fritsch (artist, author of videomeme Kneecam No.1 aka Technoviking, DE); Pedro Lopes (artist hardware t(h)inker, PT/DE); Oliver Lerone Schultz (researcher, DE). #GamerGate, Technovikings Smart Media as a Psychedelic Webcomic - survival in the wild torrents of our digital lives. Event inspired by the work of sequential artist and graphic novelist Gabriel S Moses. This two-day event brings a multi-angled perspective in which from one side artists, graphic novelists, game developers, and researchers question and play the narrative embedded into games, social media platforms, and their usage; from the other side, they reflect on the consequences of spreading our identity into the vortex of social media imaginary, to the point that social media starts hunting us back, as we become the game. With the emergence of social media platforms we have been gaining new abilities to play with the narrative, to affect both our imagined recollections and our tangible physical environments. But is this a means for better individual control or a plunge into an overwhelming spin-out? The cases of #gamergate and Technoviking demonstrate that borders between games, smart media and our private life are often very questionable. #gamergate has shown to an extreme degree that sexisms and online hate can become really tangible, and that advocacy against online-harassment is deeply needed. The story of Technoviking instead has shown how Internet phenomena and memes can become a crucial question of intellectual property and personal rights. So, is online life now all a game or just a story? Some would say language is now fully collapsing into the real. Everything is at hand, everything is virtual; there’s an app for that; all our most fundamental daily actions are quantified into generic automation series, told apart by upgrades and business schemes. Herein lies an invitation to ponder on and evaluate the current cognitive, social and even political significance of these overarching online multisensory 'game-stories' and to reconsider: what's their moral and what's at stake? Or is this the kind of psychedelic trip Super Mario has when he eats the wrong mushroom? More Information: Disruption Network Lab (http://www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien (http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/) and in collaboration with Spektrum art |science |community (http://spektrumberlin.de/) With a site-specific Cube intervention by Topics Books (http://www.topics-berlin.com/). Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung; ExBerliner.com; Furtherfield.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings
CYBORG # Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Date: 29th of May 2015 (17.00-21.30), 30th of May 2015 (16.00-21.30). Admission: 5 Euro per day. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/cyborg In English language. Second event of the Disruption Network Lab, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Francesca Da Rimini (artist and cyberfeminist, AU); Virginia Barratt (performer and cyberfeminist, AU); Jack Halberstam (theorist on gaga feminism and queer failure, USA); Franco Bifo Berardi (sociologist and philosopher, IT, video contribution); Helena Velena (trans/gender hacktivist, and technologist, IT); Massimo Canevacci (cultural anthropologist, IT/BR); Stefan Greiner (co-founder of Cyborg e.V.); Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri (socio-anthropologist, cultural producer, DJ, IT/DE); Janez Janša (artist and curator, SI); Agnese Trocchi (artist and hacktivist, IT); Magdalena Freudenschuss (gender theory researcher, DE); Christopher Coenen (researcher, DE); Mariano Equizzi (filmmaker, IT/BG); Paolo Bigazzi Alderigi (sound designer, IT); Giacomo Verde (artist and activist, IT, video contribution) This two day event presents keynote speeches, panels and live cinema reflecting on the relationships between identity, sexuality, technology and politics. Hackers, cyberfeminists, (trans)gender activists, artists and transhumanists meet to expose power structures embedded in society and our everyday life. The event is built around the international book launch of The Cyborg: A Treatise on the Artificial Man, written by political Sci-Fi theorist Antonio Caronia (Genoa, 1944 – Milan, 2013), published by Meson Press / Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Starting from the book of Caronia and going beyond it, the analysis culminates discussing the most recent frontiers of biotechnology and transhumanism. Antonio Caronia was a political activist during the 1977 revolution in Italy, turning after that to the study of mass culture and communication theory, and about the relationship between science, technology, identity, and cultural imagination. The Cyborg is crucial to the understanding of the development of digital culture from the 1980s until today, not only in Italy, but internationally. Adopting Science Fiction and the critical reflection on technology and the body as a methodology of cultural criticism, the challenge is to generate new activist, artist and hacker interventions. What does Cyborg mean today? Which new configurations are possible to provoke critical awareness and agency through sexuality, the body and technology? Do we still need to speak about a body or should we go beyond physical boundaries to reflect critically on power structures in a time of economic crisis and increasing technological surveillance? More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Supported by the Italian Culture Institute of Berlin. In collaboration with the Hybrid Publishing Lab, CDC/Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Meson Press, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen, and Aksioma - Institute of Contemporary Art Ljubljana. Media partners: Furtherfield.org; ExBerliner.com. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] [Reminder] 8-9 August: A GAME OF YOU: Into the Social Media Vortex
A GAME OF YOU Into the Social Media Vortex Locations: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Events: Spektrum, Bürknerstraße 12, 12047, Berlin. Schedule: 8th of August 2015 (17.00-23.00, + open end bar), 9th of August 2015 (20.30-22.30 + open end bar). Admission: 5 Euro (Sat), 2 Euro (Sun). Performance events are donation based. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/a-game-of-you In English language. Third event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Gabriel S Moses (sequential artist and graphic novelist, IL/DE); Chris Köver (co-founder of Missy Magazine, journalist and feminist activist, DE); Matthias Fritsch (artist, author of videomeme Kneecam No.1 aka Technoviking, DE); Pedro Lopes (artist hardware t(h)inker, PT/DE); Oliver Lerone Schultz (researcher, DE). #GamerGate, Technovikings Smart Media as a Psychedelic Webcomic - survival in the wild torrents of our digital lives. Event inspired by the work of sequential artist and graphic novelist Gabriel S Moses. This two-day event brings a multi-angled perspective in which from one side artists, graphic novelists, game developers, and researchers question and play the narrative embedded into games, social media platforms, and their usage; from the other side, they reflect on the consequences of spreading our identity into the vortex of social media imaginary, to the point that social media starts hunting us back, as we become the game. With the emergence of social media platforms we have been gaining new abilities to play with the narrative, to affect both our imagined recollections and our tangible physical environments. But is this a means for better individual control or a plunge into an overwhelming spin-out? The cases of #gamergate and Technoviking demonstrate that borders between games, smart media and our private life are often very questionable. #gamergate has shown to an extreme degree that sexisms and online hate can become really tangible, and that advocacy against online-harassment is deeply needed. The story of Technoviking instead has shown how Internet phenomena and memes can become a crucial question of intellectual property and personal rights. So, is online life now all a game or just a story? Some would say language is now fully collapsing into the real. Everything is at hand, everything is virtual; there’s an app for that; all our most fundamental daily actions are quantified into generic automation series, told apart by upgrades and business schemes. Herein lies an invitation to ponder on and evaluate the current cognitive, social and even political significance of these overarching online multisensory 'game-stories' and to reconsider: what's their moral and what's at stake? Or is this the kind of psychedelic trip Super Mario has when he eats the wrong mushroom? More Information: Disruption Network Lab (http://www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien (http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/) and in collaboration with Spektrum art |science |community (http://spektrumberlin.de/) With a site-specific Cube intervention by Topics Books (http://www.topics-berlin.com/). Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung; ExBerliner.com; Furtherfield.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] September 11-12: SAMIZDATA: Tactics and Strategies for Resistance
SAMIZDATA: Tactics and Strategies for Resistance Conference by Disruption Network Lab Locations: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Schedule: Conference: 11th September (17.30-19.30), 12th September 2015 (15.00-17.00). Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/samizdata/ Admission: 5 Euro. In English language. Fourth event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with: SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy, Jacob Appelbaum's first solo show in Germany, at NOME curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli Speakers: Jacob Appelbaum (journalist, artist, and researcher, USA/DE); Laura Poitras (journalist and filmmaker, USA); Jørgen Johansen (researcher and activist, Resistance Study Network, NO); Theresa Züger (researcher, DE); Jaromil (hacktivist, Dyne.org, IT/NL); Sophie Toupin (researcher and feminist techno/activist, CA); Valie Djordjevic (net activist, iRights.info, DE). By analysing tactics and strategies of resistance connected with the Snowden Affair in physical and digital life, this conference event brings together hackers, artists and critical thinkers, who apply and work on the concept of social justice from different angles. The goal is not to bring clear instructions, but to imagine possible alternatives into the development of shared forms of post-digital resistance. The conference programme involves journalists, artists, researchers and activists who analyse whistleblowing from a critical perspective bringing an insider critique of contemporary politics and state surveillance networks. Furthermore, it reflects on the long-term sustainability of whistleblowing practices, and the importance of establishing networks of trust, to protect possible sources and guarantee the rights of speaking out beyond fears, paranoia and the politics of war. This two-day event is in collaboration with SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy, Jacob Appelbaum's first solo show in Germany at NOME (http://nomeproject.com). A series of colored infrared photos are shown as Cibachrome prints: a critique of the progressive loss of liberty, using analogue surveillance film to portrait people who are uncovering surveillance itself. Opening: 10th September, 18:00. Additional programme: Cryptoparty at SPEKTRUM: 12th September (18:00 + open end bar, http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/cryptoparty.html). More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Supported by the Office of Québec in Berlin (Vertretung der Regierung von Québec). In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with NOME Gallery, and SPEKTRUM art |science |community. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: September 11-12: SAMIZDATA: Tactics and Strategies for Resistance
SAMIZDATA: Tactics and Strategies for Resistance Conference by Disruption Network Lab Locations: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Schedule: Conference: 11th September (17.30-19.30), 12th September 2015 (15.00-17.00). Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/samizdata/ Admission: 5 Euro. In English language. Fourth event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with: SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy, Jacob Appelbaum's first solo show in Germany, at NOME curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli Speakers: Jacob Appelbaum (journalist, artist, and researcher, USA/DE); Laura Poitras (journalist and filmmaker, USA); Jørgen Johansen (researcher and activist, Resistance Study Network, NO); Theresa Züger (researcher, DE); Jaromil (hacktivist, Dyne.org, IT/NL); Sophie Toupin (researcher and feminist techno/activist, CA); Valie Djordjevic (net activist, iRights.info, DE). By analysing tactics and strategies of resistance connected with the "Snowden Affair" in physical and digital life, this conference event brings together hackers, artists and critical thinkers, who apply and work on the concept of social justice from different angles. The goal is not to bring clear instructions, but to imagine possible alternatives into the development of shared forms of post-digital resistance. The conference programme involves journalists, artists, researchers and activists who analyse whistleblowing from a critical perspective bringing an insider critique of contemporary politics and state surveillance networks. Furthermore, it reflects on the long-term sustainability of whistleblowing practices, and the importance of establishing networks of trust, to protect possible sources and guarantee the rights of speaking out beyond fears, paranoia and the politics of war. This two-day event is in collaboration with SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy, Jacob Appelbaum's first solo show in Germany at NOME (http://nomeproject.com). A series of colored infrared photos are shown as Cibachrome prints: a critique of the progressive loss of liberty, using analogue surveillance film to portrait people who are uncovering surveillance itself. Opening: 10th September, 18:00. Additional programme: Cryptoparty at SPEKTRUM: 12th September (18:00 + open end bar, http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/cryptoparty.html). More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org) Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at) disruptionlab.org Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at) disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Production & Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Supported by the Office of Québec in Berlin (Vertretung der Regierung von Québec). In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with NOME Gallery, and SPEKTRUM art |science |community. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] DEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World, June 17-18, Berlin
DEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World A conference event by Disruption Network Lab. Art & Evidence Conference Series 2016. Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Schedule: June 17th (17.00-21.00); June 18th (16.30-20.30), 2016. In English language. Admission: 5 Euro. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/deep-cables Eighth event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. Speakers: Henrik Moltke (investigative journalist, DK/USA), Trevor Paglen (artist and geographer, USA), Andrew Blum (writer & journalist, USA), Moritz Metz (radio journalist, DE), Marc Helmus (network operator and engineer, DE), Anne Roth (net activist, senior advisor for the German Parliamentary Inquiry on Mass Surveillance for the group Die Linke, DE), Anna Biselli (journalist, Netzpolitik.org, DE), Ingrid Burrington (artist and researcher, USA), Helga Tawil-Souri (associate professor Middle East and Islamic Studies NYU, Palestine/USA), Gabriele "Asbesto" Zaverio (sysadmin, co-founder, MusIF, FreakNet MediaLab, IT), Bernd Fix (computer security expert, Wau Holland Stiftung, DE), Jacob Lillemose (postdoctoral researcher and curator, Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, DK). The first event of the "Art & Evidence" series by Disruption Network Lab 2016 investigates the cultural, political, geographic and technological dimensions of the Internet, tracing fiber-optic land and undersea network cables. At the root of the Internet infrastructure lays a very material dimension, that influences how the Internet functions, how it is organised and controlled, and its geopolitical configuration. Recently disclosed N.S.A. (National Security Agency) documents demonstrated that telecommunication companies, such as AT, have been particularly important to N.S.A. allowing the access to billions of emails across domestic networks. Large amounts of the world's Internet communications travel across American cables, and a broad range of classified activities work by installing surveillance equipment on Internet hubs. The materiality of the wired network is crucial to understand how surveillance works physically, and more in general, how the whole Internet infrastructure is conceived. In this event, researchers, engineers, investigative journalists, hackers, writers, artists and activists, are brought together to unveil who runs the Internet and in which way its infrastructure influences our political, cultural and everyday life. Starting from this very concrete subject, the physicality of the network cables, the event culminates with the discussion about digital-divide and breaks of connectivity in strategic landing sites, where the discrepancy between poor access to bandwidth and high presence of cable infrastructure is caused by military, political, and economical reasons. Funded by: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / City Tax. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with: NOME, Wau Holland Stiftung, Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), and SPEKTRUM. More Information: Disruption Network Lab: http://www.disruptionlab.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/disruptionlab Twitter: @disruptberlin Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Claudia Dorfmueller (Administration and Project Manager) claudia(at)disruptionlab.org Kim Voss (Project Manager and Communication) kim(at)disruptionlab.org Tabea Hamperl (Press Manager) tabea(at)disruptionlab.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] IGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge, Sept 30-Oct 1, Berlin
IGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge Art & Evidence Conference Series 2016 Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Schedule: September 30 (16.00-21.15); October 1 (17.00-20.45), 2016. In English language. Admission: 5 Euro / day. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/ignorance The 9th event of the Disruption Network Lab, directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli, co-curated by Daniela Silvestrin. Funded by: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / City Tax. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien. In collaboration with the Resistance Studies Network and the Resistance Study Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and SPEKTRUM. Media partners: ExBerliner, Der Freitag, Furtherfield. Speakers: Matthias Gross (sociologist and science studies scholar, DE), Joanna Kempner (Sociologist, US), Jamie Allen (artist and researcher, CA/CH), Teresa Dillon (artist and researcher, IE/DE/UK), Karen Douglas (social psychologist, UK), Martin F. Robbins (researcher and science writer, UK), Hannah Jane Parkinson (digital culture journalist and writer, UK), Ippolita group (hacktivists, philosophers, and writers, IT), Vladan Joler (SHARE Foundation director, chair of the New Media Department, University of Novi Sad, RS), Jan Willem Wieland (Assistent professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Screening of "Merchants of Doubt" (2014, 1h36min, OV), documentary directed by Robert Kenner, based on the book "Merchants of Doubt" by historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The second event of the "Art & Evidence" series by Disruption Network Lab 2016 investigates the political, social and ethical dimensions of ignorance, manifested as different forms of what has been termed "nonknowledge". It will shed light on how, why and when knowledge does not come to be, disappears or is suppressed, the possible advantages and disadvantages related to the creation or maintenance of ignorance and doubt, and how the underlying strategies and dynamics can be unveiled and unmade. Especially in the context of the current political scenario that we are witnessing, the study and closer look at strategies behind the deliberate creation and spreading of ignorance has gained more importance than ever if we want to understand the reasons for the growing success of populist campaigns. At the same time, the creation of doubts, suppression or selected publication of facts, and nourishing of controversies is building a constant background to the debates related to the discussions about climate change, carcinogenic products, conduct and publication of scientific research results and the role and influence of the media in it. A program of keynote lectures, panel discussions and a film screening will present artists, scientists, researchers and journalists who will discuss mechanisms and reasons behind knowledge that does not come to be or is suppressed. Discussions will center around the political, strategic, technological, and social uses of creating ignorance in social and everyday life through the manipulation and suppression of facts, the creation of doubt and uncertainty, biased reporting of the media, or even forbidden knowledge that is too controversial, sensitive or taboo to be studied. More information: http://www.disruptionlab.org/ignorance FB: www.facebook.com/disruptionlab Twitter: @disruptberlin -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TRUTH-TELLERS: Disruption Network Lab in November
Dear all, we are happy to invite you to our conference "TRUTH-TELLERS:The Impact of Speaking Out" on November 25-26, 2016 in Berlin. TRUTH-TELLERS, the 10th event of the Disruption Network Lab, aims to reflect on the impact of speaking out, leaking, and whistleblowing from a technological, cultural and artistic perspective. If speaking out is a mean to expose wrongdoing, misconducts, and inform about unknown facts that must be revealed, an in-depth analysis of the consequences of this act is needed. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Invited speakers are Grace North (Jeremy Hammond Campaign Manager, USA), Mustafa Al-Bassam (former member of LulzSec, UK), Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, CA), Andy Müller-Maguhn (Courage Advisory board member, Wau Holland Stiftung board member, DE), Simona Levi (founder of Xnet, ES), Giovanni Pellerano (CTO of GlobaLeaks, privacy and transparency activist at the Hermes Center, IT), Annegret Falter (director of the Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V, DE), Theresa Züger (researcher on civil disobedience, DE), Hans Bernhard / Ubermorgen (artist, AT), Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo / !Mediengruppe Bitnik (artists, CH/DE), Jack Werner (investigative journalist, SE), Tatiana Bazzichelli (director of the Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Dries Depoorter (artist, BE, video contribution). Schedule: November 25, 2016 - 17:00-21:00 November 26, 2016 - 16:30-20:30 Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. More information: http://www.disruptionlab.org/truth-tellers/ Pre-Event: LIE-ABLE ART. An artist talk by Gabriel S Moses (sequential artist and graphic novelist, IL/DE). November 9, 2016 - from 20.00 (open end) at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstraße 12, Berlin. http://spektrumberlin.de/ +++ Event funded by: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / City Tax. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. In collaboration with: SPEKTRUM art_technology_community, Wau Holland Stiftung, XNet, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. With the participation of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. Media partners: Exberliner, Furtherfield. We hope you can join us for the Pre-Lab and the conference! Best wishes, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: TRUTH-TELLERS: The Impact of Speaking Out, Nov 25-26
Dear all, I am writing to remind you about the 10th conference of the Disruption Network Lab, scheduled on November 25+26 in Berlin that will be investigating the consequences of leaking and whistleblowing from a political, cultural and technological perspective. This two-day event will present keynotes and panels to reflect on the impact of speaking out. It will bring together computer scientists, activists, privacy advocates, investigative journalists and researchers who have been working actively on the topic of truth-telling, running leak platforms and working for exposing misconducts and wrong doing, as well as artists that have been creatively working with the concept of truth, by questioning it in the online and offline realm through their artistic practices. Programme: ## Friday November 25 · 2016 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE Grace North (Director of the Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee, and Jeremy Hammond Campaign Manager, USA). Moderated by Andy Müller-Maguhn (Courage Advisory board member, Wau Holland Stiftung board member, DE). 19:00-21:00 – PANEL Simona Levi (activist, founder of Xnet, ES), Katharina Meyer (curator and researcher, member of the Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V, DE), Giovanni Pellerano (CTO of GlobaLeaks, privacy and transparency activist at the Hermes Center, IT). Moderated by Theresa Züger (researcher on civil disobedience, DE). ## Saturday November 26 · 2016 16:30-18:00 – KEYNOTE Mustafa Al-Bassam (alias Tflow, former core member, LulzSec, UK). Moderated by Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, Quebec, CA). 18:20-18:30 – SHORT Seattle Crime Cams: Video contribute by Dries Depoorter (digital artist, BE). 18:30-20:30 – PANEL Jack Werner (investigative journalist, SE), Hans Bernhard / UBERMORGEN (artist, CH/USA/AT), Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo / !Mediengruppe Bitnik (artists, CH/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director of the Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin (5 Euro per day). More information: http://www.disruptionlab.org/truth-tellers +++ Event funded by: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / City Tax. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. In collaboration with: SPEKTRUM art_technology_community, Wau Holland Stiftung, XNet, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. With the participation of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. Media partners: Exberliner, Furtherfield. We look forward to seeing you there! Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence: Call No.1 for Web Residencies 2017
Dear all, I would like to post here the announcement of the call for web residencies "Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence" I recently curated for Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM. I think the topics will interest this list. Deadline is March 10, 2017. Please forward it to other potential interested people. Below you will read more. I hope in many interesting proposals! All the best, Tatiana -- Call No.1 for Web Residencies 2017 by Solitude & ZKM Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli *Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence* The submission period for the first joint call for Web Residencies by Akademie Schloss Solitude http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/ & ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe http://zkm.de/ in 2017 has started! The call is curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, artistic director of the Disruption Network Berlin http://www.disruptionlab.org/, with a topic on art & whistleblowing. "What is the role of art in the framework of whistleblowing and leaking? If we expand the concept of art to whistleblowing, leaking and the act of producing awareness of power mechanisms, which kind of tactics and strategies for resistance can we imagine within the technological paradigm and beyond it? How would it be possible to expand forms of agency that are not just technologically determined, but consider technology as a material or political reinvention?" Read the full text of the call and submit your content here https://schloss-post.com/call-web-residencies-solitude-zkm/. Deadline is March 10, 2017. Find all information on the new collaboration by Solitude & ZKM in this press release https://schloss-post.com/web-residencies-2017-cooperation-akademie-schloss-solitude-stuttgart-center-art-media-karlsruhe/. The Web Residencies https://schloss-post.com/category-list/web-residents/ program was initiated by Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2016 to support young talents from the international digital scene as well as artists of all disciplines who deal with web-based practices to present the process and results of their work online. For each call three to four people or teams will be selected by the curator for a four-week Web Residency, which is rewarded with 500 USD. We look forward to receiving your application! -- Clara Herrmann Referentin, Digital Solitude-Programm / Coordinator, digital solitude program -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] PRISONERS OF DISSENT: Locked Up For Exposing Crimes - May 12 Berlin
Dear all, we would like to inform you about our 11th conference "Prisoners of Dissent: Locked Up For Exposing Crimes", which will take place on May 12, 2017 in Berlin at Grüner Salon of Volksbühne. The next event of the Disruption Network Lab will celebrate the upcoming freedom of Chelsea Manning and launch the new book by CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou: "Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison", to be released May 3, 2017 (published by Rare Bird Books). Invited speakers are John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA); Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE); Annegret Falter (Chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE); Magnus Ag (Senior Programm Officer, Freemuse, DK/DE); Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK). During the event, whistleblowers and truth-tellers persecuted for blowing the whistle, critical thinkers and activists meet to discuss countermeasures to detention and repression. More info are here: http://www.disruptionlab.org/prisoners-of-dissent The event is funded by the Reva & David Logan Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the Open Society Initiative for Europe, part of Open Society Foundations. In cooperation with the Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V. and the Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. In collaboration with: Wau Holland Stiftung, The Artist Protection Fund (APF), Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Resistance Study Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Media partners: ExBerliner; Furtherfield. The event is in English. I hope to see many of you there! This time it is possible to buy tickets in advance at the Grüner Salon's website (seats are limited): https://gruener-salon.tickets.de/de/events/9224-_PRISONERS_OF_DISSENT_Locked_Up_For_Exposing_Crimes All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine (November 24 - 25, 2017)
Dear all, we look forward to meeting you at our upcoming conference this weekend at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. We have still some places available for the workshop on November 26 at Supermarkt, please register if you are interested (no special technical skills are required, please read below). All the best, Tatiana TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine (November 24 - 25, 2017) Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Schedule: November 24 (17:00-21:00); November 25 (16:00-21:30) The conference TERROR FEEDS will analyse ISIS and its media strategy, the meaning of cyber jihad, and why people enroll as foreign fighters. The programme is co-curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and investigative journalist Mauro Mondello. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (see more details at: http://www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds) # Friday November 24 · 2017 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE RISE OF THE CALIPHATE: How ISIS Became a Global Threat Sue Turton (Reporter and Journalist, Former Al Jazeera Correspondent, UK), Charlie Winter (Senior Research Fellow ICSR Centre, Associate Fellow ICCT The Hague, PhD Fellow King’s College London, UK). Moderated by Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT/DE). 19:00-21:00 – PANEL CYBER JIHAD: ISIS Media Strategies and Countermeasures Dlshad Othman (Activist and IT Security Engineer, SY/US), Aymenn Al-Tamimi (Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, SY/UK), Donatella Della Ratta (Writer and Arab Media Specialist, John Cabot University, IT). Moderated by Frederike Kaltheuner (Programme Lead and Policy Officer, Privacy International, DE/UK). # Saturday November 25 · 2017 16:00-17:30 – PANEL RADICALISED: The Franchise of Terror Saud Al-Zaid (Scholar of Islamic Studies, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures, DE), Pieter Van Ostaeyen (Historian & Arabist, PhD candidate KU Leuven, BE). Moderated by Dave Keating (Journalist, US/BE). 18:00-19:30 – KEYNOTE PREVENTION & PREJUDICE: Counter-Radicalisation and Human Rights Challenges Michèle Hassen (Radicalisation Awareness Network RAN Education, Working Group Leader, EU/FR). Moderated by John Goetz (Investigative Journalist, US/DE). 20:00-21:30 – KEYNOTE FRACTURED LANDS: Confronting the Islamic State Abdalaziz Alhamza /Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently -RBSS (Co-founder, Media Activist, SY/DE); Aaron Y. Zelin (Founder of Jihadology.net and JihadPod, Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute, US). Moderated by Donatella Della Ratta (Writer and Arab Media Specialist, John Cabot University, IT). WORKSHOP PROGRAMME # WORKSHOP at Supermarkt Berlin Sunday November 26 · 2017 FACING TERRORIST THREATS: Cyber Security and Digital Self-Defense 14:00-17:00 - Ticket: 12 Euro, max 20 people, register at info(at)disruptionlab.org Dlshad Othman (Activist and IT Security Engineer, SY/US), Aymenn Al-Tamimi (Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, SY/UK). We look forward to seeing you. Best regards, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Artistic Director Before and after each event you can follow us online at: Website: www.disruptionlab.org Twitter: twitter.com/disruptberlin (#dnl) Facebook: facebook.com/disruptionlab -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine (November 24 - 25, 2017)
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine (November 24 - 25, 2017) Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Schedule: November 24 (17:00-21:00); November 25 (16:00-21:30) Admission: 5 Euro / day. The conference will be held in English. Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds An analysis of ISIS and its media strategy, the meaning of cyber jihad, and why people enroll as foreign fighters. ISIS has captivated a global network of supporters that articulates, intensifies and disseminates its violent extremist messages worldwide. The conference highlights the change ISIS* represents in how terrorism is conducted and analyses how electronic jihad and strategic messaging affect the worldwide public opinion, both in the western countries and in the Arab world, representing a new icon of "global jihad". On the other hand, activists and human right defenders risk their life while reporting stories to reveal misconducts by ISIS and document the horrors caused by the terror regime. The goal is to understand and to discuss how ISIS unleashed cyber jihad, as well as the strategies activists and human right advocates use to oppose this form of terror, Internet censorship and surveillance. (*the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Daesh by its Arabic language acronym) ## Conference programme (see more details at: www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds) # Friday November 24 · 2017 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE Sue Turton (Reporter and Journalist, Former Al Jazeera Correspondent, UK), Charlie Winter (Senior Research Fellow ICSR Centre, Associate Fellow ICCT The Hague, PhD Fellow King’s College London, UK). Moderated by Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT/DE). 19:00-21:00 – PANEL Dlshad Othman (Activist and IT Security Engineer, SY/US), Aymenn Al-Tamimi (Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, SY/UK), Donatella Della Ratta (Writer and Arab Media Specialist, John Cabot University, IT). Moderated by Frederike Kaltheuner (Programme Lead and Policy Officer, Privacy International, DE/UK). # Saturday November 25 · 2017 16:00-17:30 – PANEL Saud Al-Zaid (Scholar of Islamic Studies, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures, DE), Pieter Van Ostaeyen (Historian & Arabist, PhD candidate KU Leuven, BE). Moderated by Dave Keating (Journalist, US/BE). 18:00-19:30 – KEYNOTE Amrit Singh (Head of the Accountability, Liberty, and Transparency Cluster of the Open Society Justice Initiative, US), Michèle Hassen (Radicalisation Awareness Network RAN Education, Working Group Leader, EU/FR). Moderated by John Goetz (Investigative Journalist, US/DE). 20:00-21:30 – KEYNOTE Abdalaziz Alhamza /Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently -RBSS (Co-founder, Media Activist, SY/DE); Aaron Y. Zelin (Founder of Jihadology.net and JihadPod, Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute, US). Moderated by Donatella Della Ratta (Writer and Arab Media Specialist, John Cabot University, IT). ## Pre-Lab & Workshop programme # PRE-LAB at SPEKTRUM Friday November 10 · 2017 - 19:30-22:00 (& bar afterwards) Introduction by Mauro Mondello (co-curator of the "Terror Feeds" conference and investigative journalist). Presentation of the project "Topography of Memory: Counter Destruction in the State of Terror & The 'MemoTopo' " by Nassim Mehran (Architect, Researcher and Lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin, IRN/DE) and others. # WORKSHOP at Supermarkt Berlin Sunday November 26 · 2017 15:00-17:00 - Ticket: 12 Euro, max 20 people, register at info(at)disruptionlab.org Dlshad Othman (Activist and IT Security Engineer, SY/US), Aymenn Al-Tamimi (Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, SY/UK). 12th event of the Disruption Network Lab series by the Disruption Network Lab e.V.. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and investigative journalist Mauro Mondello. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, SPEKTRUM and Supermarkt Berlin. Funded by the Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the Bertha Foundation and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported by the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). In collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Media Partners: ExBerliner, Furtherfield. Before and after each event you can follow us online at: Website: www.disruptionlab.org Twitter: twitter.com/disruptberlin (#dnl) Facebook: facebook.com/disruptionlab -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls & Influencers - May 25-26 - Berlin
Dear all, I hope to see many of you at our next Disruption Network Lab conference. All the best, Tatiana /// Berlin - MAY 25-26 - 2018: HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls & Influencers Misinformation Ecosystems Series - Part I - 2018 Investigating online opinion manipulation, strategic hate speech and misinformation – and their impact on civil rights. The 13th conference of the Disruption Network Lab Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Event at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news/ FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368901680184340/ /// Friday May 25 - 2018 16:30 - Doors open 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan Political Analyst, Writer, and Humanitarian Advocate, KE). Moderated by Jo Havemann (Communication Scientist, r0g_agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation, DE) 19:00-21:00 – PANEL David Carroll (Associate Professor of Media Design, Parsons School of Design, USA) Bernd Fix (Hacker and Computer Security Expert, Wau Holland Stiftung, DE) Marloes de Valk (Software Artist and Writer, NL) Moderated by Theresa Züger (Project Lead, Media Policy Lab, Media Authority Berlin-Brandenburg, DE) /// Saturday May 26 - 2018 15:30 - Doors open 16:00-17:30 – KEYNOTE Andrea Noel (Mexico-based Journalist, Covering the Drug war, Politics & Gender-Based Violence, USA/MX) Renata Avila (Human Rights & Tech Lawyer, Senior Digital Rights Advisor for the World Wide Web Foundation, GT) 18:00-18:40 – SHORT DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW The Cleaners (DE, 2018). Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block (Filmmakers, DE) 19:00-21:00 – PANEL Caroline Sinders (Machine Learning Designer/User Researcher, Artist, Digital Anthropologist, USA) Øyvind Strømmen (Author and Journalist, Expert on Extreme Movements, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes, NO) Cathleen Berger (Policy Expert & Lead, Mozilla's Strategic Engagement with Global Internet Fora, DE) Moderated by Margarita Tsomou (Author, Dramaturge and Curator, GR/DE) /// Sunday May 27 - 2018 20:00-22:00 + Open End Bar - PARTNER EVENT @ SPEKTRUM Hate, Digital Cleaning and Control on Social Media Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. Who is controlling what we write and what we read on social media? /// Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Senate Department for Culture and Europa, Berlin), Reva & David Logan Foundation, Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. In partnership with: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, SPEKTRUM. In collaboration with: Wau Holland Stiftung, r0g_agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Media Partners: ExBerliner, Furtherfield. Entrance Studio 1: 5€/day (Conference) · Spektrum: Donation. In English language. More info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news/ FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368901680184340/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls & Influencers - May 25-26 - Berlin
Dear all, I am writing to remind you about our next conference event, HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls & Influencers, which is taking place on May 25-26 - 2018 in Berlin at Kunstquartier Bethanien. The conference is investigating online opinion manipulation, strategic hate speech and misinformation – and their impact on civil rights. We will also have a Partner Event at Spektrum Berlin on May 27, where we will discuss about Hate, Digital Cleaning and Control on Social Media. All the best! Tatiana /// The 13th conference of the Disruption Network Lab HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls & Influencers Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Event at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news/ FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368901680184340/ /// Friday May 25 - 2018 16:30 - Doors open 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE BETWEEN HATE AND HOPE: Lessons from Kenya on Hate Speech and Political Manipulation on the Internet. Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan Political Analyst, Writer, and Humanitarian Advocate, KE). Moderated by Jo Havemann (r0g_agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation, DE) 19:00-21:00 – PANEL TARGETED, PROFILED & INFLUENCED: On Cambridge Analytica and Beyond. David Carroll (Associate Professor of Media Design, Parsons School of Design, USA) Bernd Fix (Hacker and Computer Security Expert, Wau Holland Stiftung, DE) Marloes de Valk (Software Artist and Writer, NL) Moderated by Theresa Züger (Project Lead, Media Policy Lab, Media Authority Berlin-Brandenburg, DE) /// Saturday May 26 - 2018 15:30 - Doors open 16:00-17:30 – KEYNOTE UNCOVERING CORRUPTION: On Strategic Harassment, Mexican Trolls and Election Manipulation. Andrea Noel (Mexico-based Journalist, Covering the Drug war, Politics & Gender-Based Violence, USA/MX) Renata Avila (Human Rights & Tech Lawyer, GT) 18:00-18:40 – SHORT DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW The Cleaners (DE, 2018). Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block (Filmmakers, DE) 19:00-21:00 – PANEL FACING IDEOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES OF HATE: Hate Speech, Online Violence and Digital Rights. Caroline Sinders (Machine Learning Designer/User Researcher, Artist, Digital Anthropologist, USA) Øyvind Strømmen (Author and Journalist, Expert on Extreme Movements, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes, NO) Cathleen Berger (Policy Expert & Lead, Mozilla's Strategic Engagement with Global Internet Fora, DE) Moderated by Margarita Tsomou (Author, Dramaturge and Curator, GR/DE) /// Sunday May 27 - 2018 20:00-22:00 + Open End Bar - PARTNER EVENT @ SPEKTRUM Hate, Digital Cleaning and Control on Social Media Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. Who is controlling what we write and what we read on social media? /// Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Senate Department for Culture and Europa, Berlin), Reva & David Logan Foundation, Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. In partnership with: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, SPEKTRUM. In collaboration with: Wau Holland Stiftung, r0g_agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Media Partners: ExBerliner, Furtherfield. Entrance Studio 1: 5€/day (Conference) · Spektrum: Donation. In English language. More info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news/ FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368901680184340/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism - September 7-8-9, Berlin
Dear all, I would like to invite you to our next conference event, scheduled on September 7-8-9, 2018 in Berlin. The conference will have the title INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism, as part of our thematic series "Misinformation Ecosystems". https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration We aim to reflect on the practice of political, investigative and activist infiltration as a form of better understanding aims, lifestyles and methods of right-wing extremist groups. What is the reason for people to join extremist groups? How can we analyse their dynamics from the inside? What are the reasons of fascination among young generations of right-wing propaganda and supremacist outrage? Below you find the detailed programme. EARLY BIRD TICKETS are available only one more day! 2 DAY TICKET for 8 Euro until July 31. Get them at: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/infiltration/ /// The 14th conference of the Disruption Network Lab Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Event at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Friday September 7 · 2018 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA) Moderated by Anna Müller (Mobile Counselling Team against Right-wing Extremism /MBR – Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Berlin, DE) 19:00 - 21:00 – PANEL Mattias Gardell (Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, SE) Richard Gebhardt (Political Scientist and Journalist, DE) Janez Janša, Janez Janša & Janez Janša (Artists, Ljubljana, SI) Moderated by Christina Lee (Head of Ambassador Program, Hostwriter, DE) /// Saturday September 8 · 2018 16:30 - 18:00 – PERFORMANCE LECTURE Florian Cramer (Reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL) Stewart Home (Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, and Activist, UK) Q with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) 18:30 - 20:30 – PANEL Julia Ebner (Terrorism and Extremism Researcher and Author, AT/UK) Patrik Hermansson (Anti-racist Activist, “Hope Not Hate" Researcher, SE/UK) Christopher Schiano (Journalist at Unicorn Riot, Decentralized, Non-profit Media Organization of Artists and Journalists, USA) Moderated by Rebecca Pates (Political Anthropologist, University of Leipzig, DE) /// Sunday September 9 · 2018 · at SPEKTRUM 19:30 - 22:00 – FILM SCREENING & open bar until late Spektrum, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin Film Screening: Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America. 2016, Biography/Historical Documentary, 1h 36m. with Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA). Director: Matthew Ornstein. Producers: Matthew Ornstein, Noah Ornstein. The film screening is introduced by a piano performance by Daryl Davis + following Q with Daryl Davis. /// Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Senate Department for Culture and Europa, Berlin), Reva & David Logan Foundation, Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. In partnership with: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, SPEKTRUM. In collaboration with: Mobile Counselling Team against Right-wing Extremism – Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Berlin/MBR, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Hostwriter. Media Partners: taz.die tageszeitung, ExBerliner, Furtherfield. In English language. More info at: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism - September 7-8-9, Berlin
Dear all, Disruption Network Lab would like to inform you about our 14th conference "INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism" which will take place at Kunstquartier Bethanien (September 7-8, 2018, Berlin), a journey inside right-wing extremism and supremacist ideology to provoke direct change: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration/ This two-day conference presents keynotes and panels that will focus on the practice of political, investigative and activist infiltration as a form of better understanding aims, lifestyles and methods of right-wing extremist groups. Below is the detailed programme. All the best, Tatiana and the Disruption Network Lab Team Berlin · September 7-8 · 2018: INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism Misinformation Ecosystems Series - Part II - 2018 Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Event at SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In English language. Friday September 7 · 2018 17:00-18:30 – KEYNOTE KLAN-DESTINE RELATIONSHIPS: How & Why A Black Man Befriended White Supremacists Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA) Moderated by Anna Müller (Mobile Counselling Team against Right-wing Extremism /MBR – Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Berlin, DE) 19:00 - 21:00 – PANEL ACROSS & WITHIN RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM: Investigations and Interference Mattias Gardell (Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, SE) Richard Gebhardt (Political Scientist and Journalist, DE) Janez Janša, Janez Janša & Janez Janša (Artists, Ljubljana, SI) Moderated by Christina Lee (Head of Ambassador Program, Hostwriter, USA/DE) Saturday September 8 · 2018 16:30 - 18:00 – PERFORMANCE LECTURE TRANSGRESSIONS THEN AND NOW: Does The ‘Alt-Right’ Reenact Counter-Culture? Florian Cramer (Reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL) Stewart Home (Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, and Activist, UK) Q with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) 18:30 - 20:30 – PANEL INFILTRATION: Mapping The International Far Right Julia Ebner (Terrorism and Extremism Researcher and Author, AT/UK) Patrik Hermansson (Anti-racist Activist, “Hope Not Hate" Researcher, SE/UK) Christopher Schiano (Journalist at Unicorn Riot, Decentralized, Non-profit Media Organization of Artists and Journalists, USA) & Heartsucker (SecureDrop Maintainer, DiscordLeaks Developer, USA/DE) Moderated by Rebecca Pates (Political Anthropologist, University of Leipzig, DE) Sunday September 9 · 2018 · at SPEKTRUM 19:30 - 22:00 – FILM SCREENING & open bar until late ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: Daryl Davis, Race & America USA, 2016, Biography/Historical Documentary, 1h 36m. with Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA). Director: Matthew Ornstein. Cast: Daryl Davis. Producers: Matthew Ornstein, Noah Ornstein. Intro piano performance and following Q with Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA) Location: Spektrum, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Senate Department for Culture and Europa, Berlin), Reva & David Logan Foundation, Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. In partnership with: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In cooperation with: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, SPEKTRUM. In collaboration with: Mobile Counselling Team against Right-wing Extremism – Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Berlin/MBR, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Hostwriter. Media Partners: taz.die tageszeitung, ExBerliner, Furtherfield. Before and after each event you can follow us online at: Website: www.disruptionlab.org Twitter: twitter.com/disruptberlin (#dnl14) Facebook: facebook.com/disruptionlab More info at: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] DARK HAVENS, Confronting Hidden Money & Power - April 5-7 Berlin
Dear all, I am writing to invite you to our next conference, DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money & Power, on April 5-6 at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien. https://www.disruptionlab.org/dark-havens This time we are focusing on the discourse of anti-corruption, tax havens, offshore companies and whistleblowing. The programme is in partnership with Transparency International and we will have with us many investigative journalists, truth-tellers and a French whistleblower. We will also show the German Premiere of the film "The Panama Papers" by Alex Winter, produced by Laura Poitras. On Sunday April 7, we will have the psycho-geography offshore tour by RYBN.org in collaboration with Supermarkt. We are also planning a new Activation community event following the conference: "Diving Deeper into Data", which will take place on April 17 at STATE Studio. You find the programme of the community events here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/meet-ups Below you can read the programme of the conference in detail. We hope to see you there, this is our 15th conference! :) All the best and thank you for supporting, Tatiana & the Disruption Network Lab Team - "DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money & Power" #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Schedule: April 5 (16:00-21:15) incl. German Premiere of the documentary 'The Panama Papers'. April 6 (15:30-20:30). April 7 (12:30-18:30) Offshore Tour Operator – workshop & walk by RYBN.ORG. Language: English. Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/darkhavens/ Details: https://www.disruptionlab.org/dark-havens - SCHEDULE: # Friday April 5 · 2019 16:00 - 17:30 – PANEL HIDDEN TREASURES: How the Global Shadow Economy Drives Inequality. Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, author of Treasure Islands, and Finance Curse, UK/DE), Maira Martini (Senior Policy Advisor, Transparency International, BR/DE). Moderated by Simon Shuster (Reporter for TIME, RU/DE). 17:45 - 19:15 – PANEL - LEAKING MASSIVE DATASETS: Security, Openness, and Collective Mobilisation. Ryan Gallagher (Investigative Reporter & Editor, The Intercept, UK). Friedrich Lindenberg (Data Team Lead, OCCRP, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 19:30 - 21:15 – FILM SCREENING: THE PANAMA PAPERS. Directed by Alex Winter, (USA, 2018, 94 min) # Saturday April 6 · 2019 15:30 - 16:15 – ARTISTIC TALK - THE GREAT OFFSHORE RYBN.ORG (Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR). Moderated by Ela Kagel (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE). 16:30 - 18:00 – KEYNOTE - PANAMA PAPERS: How the Rich and the Powerful Hide Their Money Frederik Obermaier (Investigative Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE). Moderated by Max Heywood (Transparency International Global Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, UK/DE). 18:30 - 20:30 – PANEL - SILENCED BY POWER: Anti-corruption Journalists and Whistleblowers Facing Violence and Persecution Pelin Ünker (Freelance Journalist, Member of ICIJ.org, TR), Stéphanie Gibaud (UBS Whistleblower, FR), Khadija Ismayilova (Investigative journalist and Radio Host, AZ - on video), Moderated by Michael Hornsby (Communications Officer, Transparency International, UK/DE). # Sunday April 7 · 2019 12:30 - 18:30 – WORKSHOP @ Supermarkt THE OFFSHORE TOUR OPERATOR RYBN.ORG (Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR) Maximum 20 Participants - SOLD OUT - 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund of Berlin), Reva and David Logan Foundation (grant provided by NEO Philanthropy), Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Initiative for Europe within the Open Society Foundations. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Partner Venues: Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Supermarkt Berlin, and STATE Studio. In collaboration with: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Whistleblower Netzwerk. Communication Partners: Sinnwerkstatt and Furtherfield. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] AI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination, June 14-15 - Berlin
Dear all, Disruption Network Lab would like to invite you to our 16th conference, AI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination, on June 14-15. AI TRAPS is a close look at how AI & algorithms reinforce prejudices and biases of its human creators and societies, and how to fight discrimination. You can find more info below and on: https://www.disruptionlab.org/ai-traps Hope to see many of you there! Tatiana # # Friday, June 14 - 2019 16:00: Intro 16:15-17:30 - PANEL THE TRACKED & THE INVISIBLE: From Biometric Surveillance to Diversity in Data Science Adam Harvey (Artist and Researcher, US/DE), Sophie Searcy (Senior Data Scientist at Metis, US). Moderated by Adriana Groh (Head of Program Management, Prototype Fund, DE). 17:45-19:00 - PANEL AI FOR THE PEOPLE: AI Bias, Ethics & The Common Good Maya Indira Ganesh (Research coordinator, AI & Media Philosophy KIM Research Group, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design; PhD candidate, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, IN/DE), Slava Jankin (Professor of Data Science and Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance, UK/DE). Moderated by Nicole Shephard (Researcher on Gender, Technology and Politics of Data, UK/DE). 19:15-20:45 - KEYNOTE WHAT IS A FEMINIST AI? Possible Feminisms, Possible Internets Charlotte Webb (Co-founder, Feminist Internet & Even Consultancy, UK). Moderated by Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). # Saturday, June 15 - 2019 15:30-16:30 - INVESTIGATION HOW IS GOVERNMENT USING BIG DATA? Crofton Black (Researcher, Journalist & Writer, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK). Moderated by Daniel Eriksson (Head of Technology, Transparency International, SE/DE). 16:45-18:15 - KEYNOTE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE AGE OF AI: The Future of Civil Rights in the United States Mutale Nkonde (Tech Policy Advisor and Fellow at Data & Society Research Institute, US). Moderated by Rhianna Ilube (Writer, Curator and Host at The Advocacy Academy, UK/DE) 18:30-20:30 - PANEL ON THE POLITICS OF AI: Fighting Injustice & Automatic Supremacism Os Keyes (Ada Lovelace Fellow, Human-Centred Design & Engineering, University of Washington, US), Dia Kayyali (Leader of the Tech & Advocacy program at WITNESS, SY/US/DE), Dan McQuillan (Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). INSTALLATION WE NEED TO TALK, AI A Comic Essay on Artificial Intelligence by Julia Schneider and Lena Kadriye Ziyal. ### Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with: Transparency International. In collaboration with: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), r0g agency. Communication Partners: Sinnwerkstatt, Furtherfield. Media partners: taz, die tageszeitung, Exberliner. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund of Berlin), Reva and David Logan Foundation (grant provided by NEO Philanthropy), Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Initiative for Europe within the Open Society Foundations. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change
Dear all, I would like to invite you to the 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab, which will happen soon in Berlin: CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change September 20-21, 2019, Kunstquartier Bethanien. The conference is exploring the investigative impact of grassroots communities and citizens to expose injustice, corruption and power asymmetries. I hope to see many of your there. Below you find our schedule, and more details are here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizens-of-evidence All the best, Tatiana - # SCHEDULE # Friday, September 20 - 2019 16:40-18:10 – KEYNOTE GHOSTS IN THE WOODS AND UNCANNY ENTITIES: On How to Cover the Italian 'NO TAV' Movement Wu Ming 1 (Author & Writer, Wu Ming Foundation, IT). Moderated by Alexandra Weltz-Rombach (Author & Filmmaker, DE). 18:30-20:30 – PANEL EXPOSING ABUSES: Citizens Recording Human Rights Violations from the US to The Gambia. Melissa Segura (Investigative Reporter, BuzzFeed News, US), Samuel Sinyangwe (Data Scientist & Policy Analyst, Campaign Zero & Police Scorecard, US), Gareth Benest (Participatory Video Facilitator, UK). Moderated by Michael Hornsby (Communication Officer, Transparency International, UK/DE). # Saturday, September 21 - 2019 15:30-17:00 – KEYNOTE WHAT INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS DON'T USUALLY DISCLOSE Matthew Caruana Galizia (Investigative Journalist & Software Engineer, MLT). Moderated by Crina Boros (Investigative Reporter, UK). 17:15-19:15 – PANEL TRACKING DICTATORS, DIVING FOR LEAKS & OPENING UP SENSITIVE DATA Natalie Sedletska (Investigative Reporter & TV Host, UA), Brennan Novak & M C McGrath (Transparency Toolkit, US/DE), Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY). Moderated by Shannon Cunningham (Freelance Investigative Journalist, US/DE). 19:30-20:30 – INVESTIGATION FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: Horizontal Verification and the Socialised Production of Evidence Robert Trafford / Forensic Architecture (Researcher, Open Source Investigations, UK). Moderated by Laurie Treffers (Freelance Journalist & Conflict Researcher, Airwars, NL). # Sunday, September 22 - 2019 12:00-18:00 – WORKSHOP @ Supermarkt & Tempelhofer Feld FLYING IN BERLIN’S SKY, AN AFTERNOON INVESTIGATION Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY). Sector035 (InfoSec, Geolocation & OSINT, NL). Online tickets 30€. The number of participants is limited to 20. Booking is essential. Tickets are available here: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/citevidence/ -- Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Venues: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Supermarkt Berlin, STATE Studio. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with: Transparency International. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund of Berlin), Reva and David Logan Foundation (grant provided by NEO Philanthropy), Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Initiative for Europe within the Open Society Foundations. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. In collaboration with: School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Communication Partners: Sinnwerkstatt, Furtherfield. Media partners: taz, die tageszeitung, Exberliner. In English language. More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizens-of-evidence -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change, Sept 20+21
Dear all, I would like to remind you to the 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab, which will happen this weekend in Berlin: CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change September 20-21, 2019, Kunstquartier Bethanien. The conference is exploring the investigative impact of grassroots communities and citizens to expose injustice, corruption and power asymmetries. More details are here and below: https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizens-of-evidence All the best, and hope to see you there! Tatiana - # SCHEDULE # Friday, September 20 - 2019 16:40-18:10 – KEYNOTE GHOSTS IN THE WOODS AND UNCANNY ENTITIES: On How to Cover the Italian 'NO TAV' Movement Wu Ming 1 (Author & Writer, Wu Ming Foundation, IT). Moderated by Alexandra Weltz-Rombach (Author & Filmmaker, DE). 18:30-20:30 – PANEL EXPOSING ABUSES: Citizens Recording Human Rights Violations from the US to The Gambia. Melissa Segura (Investigative Reporter, BuzzFeed News, US), Samuel Sinyangwe (Data Scientist & Policy Analyst, Campaign Zero & Police Scorecard, US), Gareth Benest (Participatory Video Facilitator, UK). Moderated by Michael Hornsby (Communication Officer, Transparency International, UK/DE). # Saturday, September 21 - 2019 15:30-17:00 – KEYNOTE WHAT INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS DON'T USUALLY DISCLOSE Matthew Caruana Galizia (Investigative Journalist & Software Engineer, MLT). Moderated by Crina Boros (Investigative Reporter, UK). 17:15-19:15 – PANEL TRACKING DICTATORS, DIVING FOR LEAKS & OPENING UP SENSITIVE DATA Natalie Sedletska (Investigative Reporter & TV Host, UA), Brennan Novak & M C McGrath (Transparency Toolkit, US/DE), Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY). Moderated by Shannon Cunningham (Freelance Investigative Journalist, US/DE). 19:30-20:30 – INVESTIGATION FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: Horizontal Verification and the Socialised Production of Evidence Robert Trafford / Forensic Architecture (Researcher, Open Source Investigations, UK). Moderated by Laurie Treffers (Freelance Journalist & Conflict Researcher, Airwars, NL). # Sunday, September 22 - 2019 12:00-18:00 – WORKSHOP @ Supermarkt & Tempelhofer Feld FLYING IN BERLIN’S SKY, AN AFTERNOON INVESTIGATION Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY). Sector035 (InfoSec, Geolocation & OSINT, NL). Online tickets 30€. The number of participants is limited to 20. Booking is essential. Tickets are available here: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/citevidence/ -- Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Partner Venues: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Supermarkt Berlin, STATE Studio. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with: Transparency International. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund of Berlin), Reva and David Logan Foundation (grant provided by NEO Philanthropy), Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Initiative for Europe within the Open Society Foundations. In partnership with: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. In collaboration with: School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Communication Partners: Sinnwerkstatt, Furtherfield. Media partners: taz, die tageszeitung, Exberliner. In English language. More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizens-of-evidence -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Disrupt the System, Not the Climate - today in Berlin
Dear all, we would like to invite you to our closing event of the year! DISRUPT THE SYSTEM NOT THE CLIMATE: Surveillance, Climate Change & Global Conflict, which will happen today from 7.30pm at ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstr 21 (U8 Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin). The event wraps up our 2019 conference series "The Art of Exposing Injustice", as well as the first year of the Activation community programme. Following our previous conferences on exposing pervasive forms of control and investigating ways to produce technological and political awareness, the programme involves the Berlin-based Digitale Freiheit collective and Australian journalist and OSINT researcher Michael Cruickshank. The talks will address respectively counter-surveillance techniques and the right to privacy as well as how climate change is intertwined with political conflicts. After the talks, the privacy-electropunk band "Systemabsturz" will perform live! We will have a bar open until midnight. The programme of the evening is curated by Lieke Ploeger and myself. We look forward to seeing you at our 2019 final conference and party! More info here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/meet-ups Tatiana, Lieke, and the Disruption Network Lab Team -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] EVICTED BY GREED: Global Finance, Housing & Resistance - March 27-28
Dear all, we would like to invite you to our upcoming conference "EVICTED BY GREED: GLOBAL FINANCE, HOUSING & RESISTANCE" taking place on March 27-28 2020 at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed "Uncovering how ghostly shell companies and real estate speculation evict real people from their homes – and what to do about it." EVICTED BY GREED explores the nexus of financial flows hidden in tax havens, real estate speculation and overheated rental markets. While connecting diverse perspectives from investigative journalists, activists, experts, and researchers, the event examines countermeasures adopted by civil society. EVICTED BY GREED is building on the leaks of the Panama and the Paradise Papers, embedding the related investigations in the context of the global housing crisis. PROGRAMME: - International conference · 27.3 (3:30pm-9:15pm) — 28.3. (3:00pm-8:30pm) · Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin - Film screening: PUSH – Für das Grundgerecht auf Wohnen · 27.3. (7:45pm) · Studio 1 - Workshop: Subvertising for the right to housing · 26.3. (4:30pm-7:00pm) · Supermarkt Berlin (still places available!) - Visiting the Invisible: A Berlin City Tour to Anonymous and Aggressive Real Estate Investors · 29.3. (12:30pm-3.30pm) With: Leilani Farha (UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, PS/CA), Christoph Trautvetter (Public Policy Expert, Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit / Wem gehört Berlin?, DE), Manuel Gabarre de Sus (Lawyer and Activist, Observatory Against Economical Crime, ES), Eka Rostomashvili (Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator at Transparency International, GE/DE), Justus von Daniels (CORRECTIV / Wem gehört Berlin?, DE), Sam Leon (Data Investigations Lead at Global Witness, UK), Karina Shedrofsky (Dubai’s Golden Sands investigation, Head of OCCRP’s research team, BIH), Rima Sghaier (Outreach & Research Fellow, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, TUN/IT), Steal This Poster (Subvertising Collective IT/UK), Marco Clausen (Prinzessinnengarten, DE), Yonatan Miller (Tech Workers Coalition / Berlin vs. Amazon, US/DE), Helge Peters (Geographer, Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen, DE), Volkan Sayman (Sociologist, Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen, DE), Ela Kagel (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE), Iva Čukić (Co-founder and Coordinator of the Collective Ministry of Space/Ministarstvo prostora in Belgrade, SRB), Kunstblock & Beyond (Open Association of Art and Culture Producers in Berlin, DE). Schedule & more info on our website: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed Hope to see many of you there! All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] EVICTED BY GREED: Changes of dates, 29-30 May 2020
EVICTED BY GREED: Changes of dates, 29-30 May 2020 Berlin's Senator for Culture and Europe Klaus Lederer informed the city of Berlin that cultural events in public facilities with 500 visitors or more can no longer take place—this measure was taken to contain the further spread of the corona virus (COVID-19). We would like to deal with the situation at hand in a responsible manner and postponed our conference EVICTED BY GREED (originally scheduled to take place on March 27-28) to May 29-30.2020. The next community meetup will take place on May 6 at ACUD Macht Neu. The workshop "Subvertising for the right to housing" is scheduled on May 28. The only part of the programme that will take place on March 29 is the outdoor city tour "Visiting the Invisible: A Berlin City Tour to Anonymous and Aggressive Real Estate Investors" with Christoph Trautvetter (fully booked, with limited number of participants). Due to the high interest, the same tour will happen also on May 31 (online registration is required). We hope for your understanding and that you will be able to come to our conference in May and support with your presence the loss that we will all have. All tickets that have been bought for the March conference and subvertising workshop will be valid for the new dates in May. In case you would like to cancel your participation in May, you can request a ticket refund through our online ticket system. To get a refund, please click the link to your order in the email you received from our ticket system. In case of problems or questions, you can contact us through info(at)disruptionlab.org. The registration for the city tour on March 29 are unchanged. If you want to cancel, do so through the ticketing system. If you want to change to the May tour, please write us at info(at)disruptionlab.org. More information will follow on our website, newsletter and social media channels: http://disruptionlab.org More information about the conference: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed We will keep fighting together against real estate speculation and eviction. We wish all the best to you in these difficult times, Tatiana Bazzichelli and the Disruption Network Lab Team -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS: edition #2, Today at 5pm Berlin time
Dear all, Hope you enjoyed our first Disruptive Fridays edition last week! In case you missed it, you can still watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUoyKFL0Fmw. Today we continue with the second edition of Disruption Network Lab’s new programme stream - DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS (live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time), this time with a conversation between Michael Ang (artist and engineer), Andreas Kopp (creative technologist, maker, post-it artist and teacher) and Lieke Ploeger (Disruption Network Lab). We will speak about critical making in times of corona: how can we use digital fabrication techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Michael Ang & Andreas Kopp participated in the recent #wirvsvirus <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wirvsvirus>hackathon organised by the German government (https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/coronavirus/hackathon-der-bundesregierung-1733632) to find digital community actions against the corona virus and its effects. Together with Nicholas de Coster they developed a design for an open source/DIY protective face shield, which is currently being printed and distributed to help medical professionals stay safe from infection (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4239203). Follow us live on Friday April 10th at 5pm on our website https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Speakers: Michael Ang (Artist and engineer, CA/DE). Michael Ang is an artist and engineer who creates light objects, interactive installations, and technological tools that expand the possibilities of human expression and connection. Applying a hacker’s aesthetic, he often repurposes existing technology to create human-centered experiences in public space and the open field. Countering the trend for technology to dissociate us from ourselves and surroundings, Michael’s works connect us to each other and the experience of the present moment. He is the co-inventor of the Infl3ctor, the projection system for Digital Calligraffiti. He holds a Master’s Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. https://www.michaelang.com/ Andreas Kopp (Creative technologist, maker, post-it artist and teacher, DE) Andreas Kopp loves to make things and learn new techniques of making, designing and coding. He is the founder of Erfindergarten <https://www.facebook.com/erfindergarten/>, an open workshop for digital production, Fab Lab, youth club and DIY community and workshop space in Munich, where he gives kids the best start into making and inventing things by learning them 21st century skill and inspire them to start learning and inventing themselves. He is also the artist/artisan behind postitartcreators. Kopp has been commissioned to create portraits and installations for exhibitions, events, shop-windows, shopping centers and commercials all over the world. He often works with Post-it® Notes but has also done works with cups or origami paper and loves to make his works interactive. https://www.postitartcreators.com/ Lieke Ploeger (Community director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE) Lieke Ploeger is the community director and administration officer of the Disruption Network Lab. She is the co-founder of the independent project space SPEKTRUMberlin <https://www.facebook.com/spektrumberlin/>art science community, where she worked as community builder from 2014 to 2018. Her core interest lies in building and developing both online and offline communities of interest, with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise in an open way. She previously worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation and for the National Library of the Netherlands. She has a double master of arts from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and has been involved in various European research projects in the areas of open cultural data, open access and open science. Hope to see you online! Best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] PIRATE CARE - Disruptive Fridays #3 – 17 April - 17:00 Berlin
Dear all, we would like to invite you to join our Disruptive Fridays #3: PIRATE CARE, on 17 April 2020, 17:00 Berlin time! The video & chat will be live at: disruptionlab.org/fridays The third edition of Disruption Network Lab’s new programme stream - DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS (live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time) features a conversation between Valeria Graziano (Researcher, pirate.care) and Elena Veljanovska (Disruption Network Lab). We will speak about self-organized care initiatives in times of Corona. pirate.care researches, gathers & nourishes initiatives which are taking risks by operating in the narrow grey zones left open between different care knowledges, institutions and laws. pirate.care is inviting all to participate in an exploration of the mutual implications of care and technology that dare questioning the ideology of private property, work and metrics. Flatten the curve, grow the care: What are we learning from Covid-19 is their curriculum that evolved with the Covid crisis. With Valeria Graziano we will speak about using piracy as a political tool for care and focus on the solidarity initiatives in Italy that are serving as active caretakers since the outbreak of the crisis. We will also talk about societal reorganization and what is the effect of the crisis on women’s health and on vulnerable groups. Follow us live on Friday April 17th at 5pm on our website (disruptionlab.org), Twitter (@disruptberlin) or Facebook. Speakers: Valeria Graziano (Researcher, pirate.care, IT/UK) Valeria Graziano is a research fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK). Her work focuses on organisational practices and tecnopolitical tools that foster the refusal of work, a creativere distribution of social reproduction and the politicization of pleasure. Together with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, she is a convenor of Pirate Care (https://pirate.care), a research project focusing on forms of political activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which are trying to intervene in the current crisis of care in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions. The Pirate Care Syllabus is a tool for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from these practices (https://syllabus.pirate.care). Elena Veljanovska (Senior project manager, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE) Elena Veljanovska is a senior project manager at the Disruption Network Lab. From 2012 to 2019 she was the executive director and programme curator at Kontrapunkt Skopje, where among other projects, with Iskra Geshoska she co-developed the Festival for Critical Culture - CRIC (founded in 2016). In 2006 she co-founded Line I+M Platform for New Media Art and Technology, where she was the artistic director until 2010. Veljanovska has worked as a curator and cultural manager with numerous organisations and artists. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] VIRUS TRACKING & SURVEILLANCE - Disruptive Fridays #4 - April 24, 5pm Berlin
VIRUS TRACKING & SURVEILLANCE DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS #4 - https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays April 24 2020 - 5pm Berlin time With: Lauri Love (Computer Scientist, UK), Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, ES), Julian Finn (Hacker and Media Artist, DE), Tatiana Bazzichelli (Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). A live conversation on the implication of citizen tracking during the COVID-19 Pandemic. During "Virus Tracking & Surveillance" we'll discuss about the implications of tracking and data retention on everyday life, as well as the necessity to implement technology for collective care while respecting privacy and surveillance concerns. Is tracking in public space becoming necessary to monitor individual health conditions, or do we need to protect our citizen rights to keep such data fully anonymous? In the last few weeks the necessity of developing Corona tracking apps has become part of a very crucial debate, but it is even more crucial to guarantee data protection. As reported by Heise Online, one of more apps will be available in Germany from mid-April onwards, on the basis of the PEPP-PT (Pan European Privacy Protecting Proximity Tracing) project. This will enable users to use Bluetooth technology to determine whether they have been in contact with a Corona-infected person who also uses the system. But there are already some concerns related to IT security problems, connected to the use of Bluetooth technology, or about the possibility to provide such system without accessing the location information on the mobile phone. For example, Digitalcourage points out that under Android, the use of the Bluetooth interface is only permitted if the use of local services is enabled at the same time. On the other side, the more physical control we have over tracking devices the more information these devices can extract. While tracking devices unfold as everyday objects, able to be run and operated by the average citizen, the information that they collect becomes increasingly undecipherable by the very same user that operates such device. Since the appearance of the Panopticon in the 18th century, tracking devices have gradually come closer to our bodies, yet COVID-19 crisis pushes social control one step further. It requires to control biological processes, and it requires to implement it fast. Lauri Love (Computer Scientist, UK) Lauri Love is a computer scientist from Stradishall in the UK who has a long history of involvement in political activism. He played a prominent role in the student and Occupy movements in Glasgow during 2011-12. Lauri faced potential extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in #OpLastResort, the series of online protests that followed the persecution and untimely death of Aaron Swartz. Love is increasingly being recognised as an expert on hacking, surveillance and privacy issues in the UK and has made a principled stand against the country’s forced decryption laws. Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, ES) Joana Moll is an artist and researcher from Barcelona. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, social profiling and interfaces. She has lectured, performed and exhibited her work in different museums, art centers, universities, festivals and publications around the world. Furthermore she is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona] and co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of Popular Automatisms. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Universität Potsdam (DE), Escola Elisava (ES) and Escola Superior d'Art de Vic (ES). https://www.janavirgin.com/ Julian Finn (Hacker and Media Artist, DE) Julian Finn is a hacker and media artist. He has been part of the German hacker scene for almost two decades. Founder of Mautinoa, a company building digital banking solutions for developing countries and humanitarian crises, he has been working in the field of disaster relief and humanitarian aid for a few years. His specialty is in working with and creating products for non-classical user groups, cognitive impaired, and other vulnerable people. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS: live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time
Dear all, this Friday April 3, Disruption Network Lab is launching a new programme stream! DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS, live every Friday at 5pm Berlin time. The first conversation will involve Marc Garrett (Furtherfield), Cassie Thornton (Feminist Economics Department), Ela Kagel (Supermarkt Berlin) and Tatiana Bazzichelli (Disruption Network Lab). We will share ideas for creative solutions and resistance to the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. What are our strategies to keep working with art and culture when our contexts of sharing are so limited? What can we learn from this situation to generate new forms of collective care? When we named our organisation "Disruption Network Lab" we would never have imagined that disruption would turn out the way we are experiencing it. In the course of the past years we have invited people that disrupt and challenge closed systems from within. In a moment in which we are all experiencing a deep closure, Disruptive Fridays becomes an opportunity to foster even more critical thinking. During these conversations we will address topics related to art, hacktivism, whistleblowing, social justice and collective care in times of Corona. Follow us live on Friday April 3rd at 5pm on our website (www.disruptionlab.org), Twitter (@disruptberlin) or Facebook. Speakers: Ela Kagel (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE). Ela Kagel specialises in the intersection of society, technology and economy. Since the 1990s she has produced media art exhibitions, designed spaces for cultural exchange and helped establish digital platforms, networks and communities. From 2009 to 2011 she was program curator for the transmediale festival in Berlin. Central to Ela’s practice is supporting bottom-up initiatives deeply rooted in particular communities of practice. In 2010 Ela co-founded SUPERMARKT, an independent hub for digital culture and collaborative economy. Since 2018, Ela is also board member of RChain Europe, a technology cooperative based in Berlin. Marc Garrett (Co-director & Co-founder, Furtherfield, London, UK). Marc Garrett is codirector and cofounder, together with Ruth Catlow, of the arts online collective Furtherfield, with two physical venues, a gallery, and a commons lab, all situated in Finsbury Park, London. He curated the major exhibition "Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century", at Laboral, Spain in 2017. In 2017 he copublished "Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain" with Ruth Catlow, Nathan Jones, and Sam Skinner. He is in the process of completing his PhD at the University of London, Birkbeck College. Cassie Thornton (Artist, Feminist Economics Department, UK) Cassie Thornton is an artist working under the title of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), in collusion with Strike Debt. Her work investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic systems on public affect, behavior, and unconscious, with a focus on debt and security. Cassie Thornton received a MFA from California College of the Arts and a BFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently launched The Hologram, an artwork about collective health care (https://www.furtherfield.org/cassie-thornton-presents-the-hologram/). Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founder and Director, Disruption Network Lab) Tatiana Bazzichelli is founder and artistic director of the Disruption Network Lab, an organisation in Berlin working on information technology, network culture, hacktivism and whistleblowing. In 2011-2014 she was programme curator at transmediale festival, where she developed the year-round initiative reSource transmedial culture berlin and curated several conference events, workshops and installations. She has been appointed jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund) by the German Federal Government and Berlin for the funding years 2019-2020. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Lockdown or Crackdown? - Disruptive Fridays #5 - May 1 - 5pm Berlin
LOCKDOWN OR CRACKDOWN? DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS #5 - Streaming: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Live at 5pm Berlin time on May 1. With Stellan Vinthagen (Professor of Sociology, Scholar-Activist, US/SE) and Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT/DE). Moderated by Jonas Frankki (Disruption Network Lab, SE/DE). On this May Day 2020 the streets worldwide will largely be vacant. How can citizens fight for their rights during the pandemic? Both Vinthagen and Mondello have long experience on the ground and in the field, Vinthagen as a researcher and non-violent activist, Mondello as an investigative journalist covering the Middle East. During the ongoing COVID19 Pandemic, Mauro Mondello is covering the developments in Hungary and Poland, where civil liberties are under threat from leaders who are using the crisis to further extend their powers. Stellan Vinthagen has spent decades combining non-violent activism and civil disobediance with sociological research, to further the understanding and develop theories on how non-violent resistance movements function. We will discuss what is happening at the moment in countries like Poland and Hungary, and discuss what effective activism and resistance might look like during lockdown. +++ SPEAKERS Stellan Vinthagen (Professor of Sociology, Scholar-Activist, US/SE) Stellan Vinthagen is inaugural endowed chair in the study of nonviolent direct action and civil resistance and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a council member of War Resisters’ International, academic adviser to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), co-founder of the Resistance Studies Network (www.resistancestudies.org) and editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies. Since 1980, he has been an educator, organiser and activist and has participated in more than thirty nonviolent civil disobedience actions, for which he has served in total more than one year in prison. Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT/DE) Mauro Mondello is a freelance journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. He works as a correspondent for la Repubblica, Avvenire, Radio Rai, Panorama, Rivista Studio, East, Zeit Magazine among others. In 2011 he followed the Arab Revolutions in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt. His documentaries include Stateless (2012), in collaboration with videomaker Nunzio Gringeri, a study of Tunisia's Shousha refugee camp and Lampedusa in Berlin (2015), about the stories of the refugees’ protest camp in Berlin at Oranienplatz. He is the founder and editor in chief of Yanez Magazine. Jonas Frankki (Disruption Network Lab, SE/DE) Since 2014 Jonas Frankki designs and animates the visual identity of the Disruption Network Lab and each conference, and additionally researches speakers, networks and topics for future events. Jonas was born in Sweden, studied Marketing, International Relations, Political Science and Cultural Management in Gothenburg. Since 2012 he is also an Art Director at sinnwerkstatt, a Berlin media agency for sustainability. He is a member of the Disruption Network Lab e. V.. Follow us and take part in the online chat: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Whistleblowing During COVID-19 - Disruptive Fridays #7 - May 15
Dear all, Disruptive Fridays #7 - Whistleblowing During COVID-19 focuses on the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and discusses the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic. Starting Friday May 15, 5pm CEST On streaming: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays With: Renata Avila (Executive Director of Ciudadanía Inteligente, GTM), Joseph Farrell (WikiLeaks Ambassador, UK), Annegret Falter (Chair of the Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE), Rima Sghaier (Outreach & Research Fellow, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, TUN/IT), Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founder & Director, Disruption Network Lab, e. V., IT/DE). Some weeks ago a coalition of public authorities and institutions have signed a letter to protect those who report or expose the harms, abuses and wrongdoing that arise during the COVID-19 crisis. "The COVID-19 pandemic brings into stark relief the importance of accountability and the need for regular and reliable information from our public institutions and our leaders. The people of every affected country need to know the truth about the spread of the disease both locally and internationally in order to respond effectively and help protect their communities. Fairness, transparency and cooperation are vital and never more so than during a pandemic." https://whistleblower.org/sign-on-letter/sign-on-coalition-to-make-whistleblowing-safe-during-covid-19-and-beyond/ The role of whistleblowers is crucial in times of crisis to expose wrongdoing and misconducts in private and public institutions, health systems, working environments, commercial and delivery markets, and to denounce abuses of personal privacy, both on the digital sphere and the everyday life. The work of whistleblowers is central to denounce power violations and to protect the most vulnerable sectors of our society, but also whistleblowers are people at risk. They are subjects of repression and opposition before and after blowing the whistle, and often confined in isolation, imprisoned or persecuted while their civil rights are suspended. In a moment in which governments are entitle to use extraordinary powers without proper public oversight and transparency, we need to protect whistleblowers and discuss forms of collective participation to guarantee global safety and accountability, as well as to defend the human rights and freedoms of all people. Read more here about whistleblowers around the world that got silenced or suffered persecution during COVID-19. https://whistleblower.org/blog/covid-19-the-largest-attack-on-whistleblowers-in-the-world/ SPEAKERS: Renata Avila (Executive Director of Ciudadanía Inteligente, GTM) Renata Avila, International Human Rights Lawyer, Technology Expert. Co-convener of the Progressive International, a global initiative launching in May 2020 with a mission to unite, organise, and mobilise progressive forces around the world. She has been a part of the legal and advocacy team of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for over a decade. She writes regularly for El Diario (Spain) and Open Democracy. Joseph Farrell (WikiLeaks Ambassador, UK) Joseph A. Farrell is a WikiLeaks ambassador and a Centre for Investigative Journalism board member. He has been a section editor for many important WikiLeaks' publications including the Iraq and Afghan War Logs and Cablegate to name but a few. He was a member of the Civil Society Coalition at the WIPO diplomatic conference on a treaty for copyright exceptions for persons with disabilities in Marrakesh, Morocco. Farrell regularly appears on TV networks analysing the week's news headlines. Annegret Falter (Chair of the Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE). Dipl.-Pol. Annegret Falter is the chairperson of Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V. in Berlin. 1999-2014 she was a member of the jury bestowing the German Whistleblower Award donated by the Association of German Scientists (VDW) and by IALANA. Among the winners are Chelsea Manning, 2011 and Edward Snowden, 2013. Falter has written and edited numerous publications about whistleblower cases and issues of the political and social importance of whistleblowing. She analyses whistleblowing in the context of the public interest, of freedom of expression, of democratic discourse and political participation. Rima Sghaier (Outreach & Research Fellow, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, TUN/IT) Rima Sghaier is an international citizen born in Tunisia and currently based in Milan, where she leads outreach and localisation efforts at the Hermes Center, managing and contributing to projects to support NGOs, media, and investigative journalists to create secure whistleblowing platforms. She is the program manager of Digital Whistleblowing Fund, a small-grant project by the Hermes Center and Renewable Freedom Foundation that enables investigative journalism groups and human rights grassroots organisations to apply to receive financial, operational and strategic support in sta
[spectre] Harm Reduction and Queer Care - Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8
Disruptive Fridays #6 - May 8, 2020 Harm Reduction and Queer Care Starting Friday 5pm Berlin time. The sixth edition of Disruptive Fridays features a conversation with Pedro Marum (XenoEntities Network, Mina, Suspension, PT/DE), Mariana Nobre V. (Performer, choreographer, queer rave instigator, Emotional CPR - eCPR, Rabbit Hole and Lecken collectives, PT/DE), Mariana Cunha (Kosmicare, PT) and Rafi (Artist, Organizer, TS Raver, DE), moderated by Nada Bakr (Disruption Network Lab EG/DE). During this conversation we will discuss harm reduction within queerfeminist self-organized communities that welcome queers, trans, POC and neurodivergent people to discuss, test and learn about psychoactive substances. For long they have operated with structures that not only provide moments of revelry but also much-needed care and acceptance for many, who often find in these communities their peers, their kin, forms of coping and resistance. In the current times of pandemic and isolation they are debating how to continue this work. As the clubs and parties close, where does all this energy go now? What happens to all the bottled-up anxieties and loneliness? What happens to the people that struggle with addiction and, instead of understanding, find prejudice and discrimination? Who looks after those whose needs have always been overlooked or oppressed? What happens now that governments have (yet again) failed to protect, and these communities have become de-fragmented and even more precarious under isolation? How can we foster collective digital support, debates, talks and guidelines about harm reduction and emotional support in self-isolation times? With Pedro Marum, Mariana Cunha, Mariana Nobre V. and Rafi we will speak about their ongoing projects and about “RAVELENGTH”, an upcoming project in which they collaborate to generate accessible tools for harm reduction, relief and empowerment within the queerfeminist electronic music scene and raver communities. By organizing online discussions, workshops and support groups in collaboration with artists, healthcare professionals and local community organizers, they call for a culture of solidarity across and beyond European borders. Speakers: Pedro Marum (XenoEntities Network, Mina, Suspension, PT/DE) Marum is one of the instigators of the collective party mina (Lisbon), co-founder of the label and artist platform suspension, and founder member of XenoEntities Network. mina and suspension have started a collaboration with harm reduction NGO Kosmicare, organising talks and exchange groups with the queer community, raising awareness and providing access to tools and knowledge on harm reduction. In response to the pandemic crisis, together with other collectives they initiated Ravelength. Mariana Nobre V. (Performer, choreographer, queer rave instigator, Emotional CPR (eCPR), Rabbit Hole and Lecken collectives, PT/DE) Emotional CPR is a practice based on values of mutual support and interpersonal communication for addressing personal and community moments of crisis and distress. Having its origins on a public health education program developed in the field of mental health, eCPR is now being integrated with somatic practices and informed by queer principles of consent, inclusion, collective action, access and solidarity. This work is being developed by a team of eCPR practitioners and artists with extensive experience in queer activism, movement research, queer nightlife production and harm reduction. Mariana Cunha (Kosmicare, PT) Mariana works with Kosmicare, an NGO that envisions a world where drugs are used with liberty and wisdom. She studied pharmacological and neurosciences and has been working in harm reduction since 2017. Currently, she runs a permanent drug checking laboratory in Lisbon. Her interests include psychopharmacology, raves, science fiction and everything in between. Rafi (Artist, Organizer, TS Raver, DE) Rafi is an organiser and artist based in Berlin. He organises with TS Raver, a queer nightlife project that positions peer led harm reduction teams as anchors for critical care. Nada Bakr (Disruption Network Lab, EG/DE) Nada Bakr is a curator, researcher and cultural manager based in Berlin. She holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Media Arts Cultures from Aalborg University. She works on different projects in Berlin and Cairo related to visual arts, digital culture, art and activism, digital rights and media art. Her work in the field of media art is developed through research and practice on the intersection between art and technology. Nada is the Managing Director and co-curator of Cairotronica - Cairo Electronic and New Media Art festival, where she curates and manages the biennial festival program. She works as project manager for the conference and community programme and is a member of the Disruption Network Lab e. V.. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
[spectre] Global Surveillance in the Data Society - Disruptive Fridays #12, Sept 11 5PM CEST
Dear all, we are back with our Disruptive Fridays and we are looking forward to seeing you online at our upcoming event this Friday, September 11: Disruptive Fridays #12: Global Surveillance in the Data Society September 11, 5PM CEST With Sonia Kennebeck (Film Director, MY/DE/US), Assia Boundaoui (Journalist, Filmmaker, Artists, DZA/US), Jer Thorp (Artist, Writer and Teacher, CA/US). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, Filmmaker, IT). On September 11, Disruption Network Lab is organising Disruptive Fridays 12#: Global Surveillance in the Data Society, a preview of the conference DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights - which Tatiana Bazzichelli is curating together with investigative journalist Mauro Mondello (September 25-27, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin). The conversation will reflect on the discourse of surveillance and human rights during the coronavirus crisis, and will reconnect it to another event that reshaped our society: 9/11. We decided to host it on 9/11 as a symbolic date, which signed unprecedented measures on the level of security and surveillance, compromising our privacy and freedom, and changing the way we perceived our society. To unfold the discussion we invited three speakers that have been dealing with the issues of data, tracking and human rights since long time. Sonia Kennebeck will introduce her last film UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER, currently in post-production. The film is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration. In the framework of the discussion on post-9/11 surveillance and whistleblowing, she will trace a line that connects her three films: National Bird (the story of three whistleblowers who blow the whistle on the US drone war), Enemies of the State (about the case of hacker Matt DeHart), and United States vs. Reality Winner. Assia Boundaoui will present her work combining community storytelling, visual arts, and artificial intelligence. Her work, The Inverse Surveillance Project, is an AI program analysing hundreds of thousands of documents collated by the FBI on people of colour over the past 100 years, revealing historic patterns on tactics it used during operations. An Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago, she directed the film The Feeling of Being Watched, a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Boundaoui's Muslim-American community, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Jer Thorp, a data artist that designed (with Jake Barton) an algorithm and a software tool to aid in the placement of the names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan, will discuss his data artistic practice. His 9/11 Memorial Project allowed to arrange the names of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business relationships with each other. He also collaborated with Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the attacks. Author of many data-inspired artworks, his forthcoming book Living in Data will be published in 2021. We will discuss the issue of surveillance and human rights, reflecting on the transformation of our lives when security measures have been extensively implemented in the US and worldwide. Tatiana Bazzichelli and Mauro Mondello will moderate the talk. SPEAKERS Sonia Kennebeck, Film Director, MY/DE/US Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. National Bird, her first feature-length film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA. In March 2017, National Bird received the prestigious Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize that is awarded to one documentary a year “that defends the public interest, advances or promotes social justice, or illuminates a more just vision of society.” Kennebeck received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University in Washington, D.C. She was born in Malacca, Malaysia, and lives in New York. https://www.codebreakerfilms.com/films Assia Boundaoui, Journalist, Filmmaker, Artists, DZA/US Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago. She has reported for the BBC, NPR, PRI, Al Jazeera, VICE, and CNN. Her debut short film about hijabi hair salons for the HBO LENNY documentary series premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Her feature length debut THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED, a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's Muslim-American community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
Re: [spectre] Global Surveillance in the Data Society - Disruptive Fridays #12, Sept 11 5PM CEST
Dear all again, since some people asked, the link to follow our streaming episodes is always at: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays We will be live on Friday 5PM CEST and you can follow us directly on our website. Hope to see you there! Tatiana On 09.09.20 14:32, Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote: > Dear all, > > we are back with our Disruptive Fridays and we are looking forward to > seeing you online at our upcoming event this Friday, September 11: > > Disruptive Fridays #12: > Global Surveillance in the Data Society > September 11, 5PM CEST > > With Sonia Kennebeck (Film Director, MY/DE/US), Assia Boundaoui > (Journalist, Filmmaker, Artists, DZA/US), Jer Thorp (Artist, Writer and > Teacher, CA/US). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, > Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Mauro Mondello (Investigative > Journalist, Filmmaker, IT). > > On September 11, Disruption Network Lab is organising Disruptive Fridays > 12#: Global Surveillance in the Data Society, a preview of the > conference DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights - > which Tatiana Bazzichelli is curating together with investigative > journalist Mauro Mondello (September 25-27, Kunstquartier Bethanien, > Berlin). > > The conversation will reflect on the discourse of surveillance and human > rights during the coronavirus crisis, and will reconnect it to another > event that reshaped our society: 9/11. > We decided to host it on 9/11 as a symbolic date, which signed > unprecedented measures on the level of security and surveillance, > compromising our privacy and freedom, and changing the way we perceived > our society. To unfold the discussion we invited three speakers that > have been dealing with the issues of data, tracking and human rights > since long time. > > Sonia Kennebeck will introduce her last film UNITED STATES VS. REALITY > WINNER, currently in post-production. The film is the story of > 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about > Russian election interference to the media and became the number one > leak target of the Trump administration. In the framework of the > discussion on post-9/11 surveillance and whistleblowing, she will trace > a line that connects her three films: National Bird (the story of three > whistleblowers who blow the whistle on the US drone war), Enemies of the > State (about the case of hacker Matt DeHart), and United States vs. > Reality Winner. > > Assia Boundaoui will present her work combining community storytelling, > visual arts, and artificial intelligence. Her work, The Inverse > Surveillance Project, is an AI program analysing hundreds of thousands > of documents collated by the FBI on people of colour over the past 100 > years, revealing historic patterns on tactics it used during operations. > An Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago, she > directed the film The Feeling of Being Watched, a documentary > investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Boundaoui's > Muslim-American community, which had its world premiere at the 2018 > Tribeca Film Festival. > > Jer Thorp, a data artist that designed (with Jake Barton) an algorithm > and a software tool to aid in the placement of the names on the 9/11 > Memorial in Manhattan, will discuss his data artistic practice. His 9/11 > Memorial Project allowed to arrange the names of those killed in the > 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business > relationships with each other. He also collaborated with Mark Hansen, > Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the > attacks. Author of many data-inspired artworks, his forthcoming book > Living in Data will be published in 2021. > > We will discuss the issue of surveillance and human rights, reflecting > on the transformation of our lives when security measures have been > extensively implemented in the US and worldwide. Tatiana Bazzichelli and > Mauro Mondello will moderate the talk. > > > > SPEAKERS > > Sonia Kennebeck, Film Director, MY/DE/US > > Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and > investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and > producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries > and more than 50 investigative reports. National Bird, her first > feature-length film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was > also selected for Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA. In March 2017, National > Bird received the prestigious Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize that is > awarded to one documentary a year “that defends the public interest, > advances or promotes social justice, or illuminates a more just vision > of society.” Kennebeck received a m
[spectre] DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights
Dear all, I would like to invite you to the 20th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. DATA CITIES: SMART TECHNOLOGIES, TRACKING & HUMAN RIGHTS. Investigating future smart cities and how tracking & surveillance impact us all. https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities We will be back at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin from September 25 to 27, but also on streaming (live on our website). You can find some info below, please make sure to get a ticket online to reserve a seat. https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/ ## SCHEDULE # PRE-EVENT: GERMAN PREMIERE Thursday, September 24 - 2020 19:00-22:00 – Film screening + Q: iHUMAN iHUMAN - Film Documentary - Event in partnership with the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, at BUFA Studios, followed by a film talk with Tonje Hessen Schei (Film Director, Producer and Screenwriter, NO): https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/screening-ihuman # CONFERENCE FULL PROGRAMME: https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities#programme SCHEDULE: # Friday, September 25 - 2020 16:00 - Doors open 16:40—18:00 - KEYNOTE: Reclaiming Data Cities: Fighting for the Future We Really Want Denis "Jaromil" Roio (Digital Social Innovation Expert, Software Artisan & Ethical Hacker, IT) & Julia Kloiber (Managing Director at Superrr Lab and Partner at Ashoka Germany, DE). Moderated by Daniel Irrgang (Research Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, DE). 18:45—20:45 · PANEL: Making Cities Smart for Us: Subverting Tracking & Surveillance Eva Blum-Dumontet (Senior Researcher on Privacy and Social and Economics Rights, UK), River Honer (Web Developer at Expedition Grundeinkommen, Anti-Capitalist Tech Activist, Member of Anti Eviction Map Project, US/DE), Andreas Zingerle (Media Artist, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, AT/NO), Linda Kronman (PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, FI/NO). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). # Saturday, September 26 - 2020 16:00 — Doors open 16:30—18:00 - KEYNOTE: Worlds Less Travelled: Mega-Cities, AI & Critical Sci-Fi Liam Young (Film Director, Architect and Designer, AU/US), Tonje Hessen Schei (Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, NO). Respondent: Anna Ramskogler-Witt (Artistic Director, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, DE). Moderated by Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT) & Lucia Conti (Communication Expert at UNIDO, Editor in Chief at Il Mitte, IT/DE). 18:45—20:45 - PANEL: Citizens for Digital Sovereignity: Shaping Inclusive & Resilient Cities Elizabeth Calderón Lüning (Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Research Group Inequality & Digital Sovereignty. DE), Rafael Heiber (Co-founder & CEO, Common Action Forum, BR/DE), Alexandre Monnin (Head of the "Strategy and Design for the Anthropocene", Master of Science at ESC Clermont Business School, FR), Moderated by Fieke Jansen (PhD Candidate at the Data Justice Lab, NL/UK). # Sunday, September 27 - 2020 14:15 - DOORS OPEN 14:45—15:15 - ARTIST TALK - Google Maps Hacks Simon Weckert (Artist & Designer, DE) 15:15—17:45 - WORKSHOPS Limited seats: sign-up is required for a specific workshop. Get your ticket here: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/data-cities/ Workshop 1: Smash your filter bubble! with Leonardo Sanna (PhD Fellow, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) and Salvatore Romano (Graduate student in Social Psychology, University of Padova, IT) of the tracking.exposed project. Workshop 2: Visualizing Control – A Critical Mapping Workshop with River Honer (Web Developer at Expedition Grundeinkommen, Anti-Capitalist Tech Activist, Member of Anti Eviction Map Project, US/DE). SOLD OUT! Workshop 3: Reusing things in the smart city with: Felipe Schmidt Fonseca (Activist, Free/Open Advocate and Researcher, OpenDoTT project, BR/DE). Workshop 4: Citizen manifesto on data cities with Fieke Jansen (PhD Candidate at the Data Justice Lab, NL/UK). 18:30—19:30 - COLLECTIVE CLOSING More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Online-conference EVICTED BY GREED: GLOBAL FINANCE, HOUSING & RESISTANCE, May 29-31
Dear all, I would like to invite you to our upcoming conference "EVICTED BY GREED: GLOBAL FINANCE, HOUSING & RESISTANCE" taking place on May 29-31 on streaming. EVICTED BY GREED explores the nexus of financial flows hidden in tax havens, real estate speculation and overheated rental markets. While connecting diverse perspectives from investigative journalists, activists, experts, and researchers, the event examines countermeasures adopted by civil society. EVICTED BY GREED is building on the leaks of the Panama and the Paradise Papers, embedding the related investigations in the context of the global housing crisis. In cooperation with Transparency International. # PROGRAMME # Friday, May 29, 2020 16:00—17:30 · KEYNOTE · Anonymous & Aggressive Investors: Who owns Berlin & Barcelona? Christoph Trautvetter (Public Policy Expert, Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit / Wem gehört die Stadt (RLS), DE). Manuel Gabarre de Sus (Lawyer and Activist, Observatory Against Economical Crime. ES). Moderated by Eka Rostomashvili (Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator at Transparency International, GE/DE). 18:00—19:30 · PANEL · Foggy Properties & Golden Sands: Money Laundering in London & Dubai Sam Leon (Data Investigations Lead at Global Witness, UK). Karina Shedrofsky (Dubai’s Golden Sands investigation, Head of OCCRP’s research team, BIH). Moderated by Rima Sghaier (Outreach & Research Fellow, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, TUN/IT). 20:15—21:00 · LIVE CONVERSATION · PUSH - The Film With Fredrik Gertten (Filmmaker, Producer & Journalist, SE) and Leilani Farha (Global Director, The Shift & Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, PS/CA). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Programme Director, Disruption Network Lab e. V., IT/DE) – Excerpts & live conversation. The film screening of "PUSH - The Film" is planned on July 30, 2020, from 20:00, at ACUD Macht Neu in Berlin (outdoor yard). # Saturday, May 30 · 2020 15:40—16:30 · TALK · Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co! Volkan Sayman (Sociologist, Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen, DE). Moderated by Ela Kagel (Supermarkt Berlin, DE). 17:00—18:30 · KEYNOTE · The Human Rights Solution: Tackling the housing crisis Leilani Farha (Global Director, The Shift & Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, PS/CA). In conversation with Justus von Daniels (CORRECTIV / Wem gehört Berlin, DE). 19:10—19:30 · SHORT FILM PRÈMIERE · “StealThisPoster: Artivism & the Struggle of Lucha Y Siesta” by StealThisPoster (Subvertising collective, IT/UK). 19:30-21:10 · PANEL · Resisting Speculation: Ecological Commons, Subvertising & Fighting Tech Domination Marco Clausen (Co-founder Prinzessinnengarten, DE), Yonatan Miller (Tech Workers Coalition, Berlin vs. Amazon, US/DE), StealThisPoster (subvertising collective IT/UK), Moderated by Iva Čukić (Co-founder & Coordinator, Ministry of Space, SRB). Video contribute by Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh, AARG! & Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research, GR). # Sunday, May 31 · 2020 17:00—18:30 · Virtual Tour "Visiting the Invisible" A Berlin City Tour to Anonymous and Aggressive Real Estate Investors Christoph Trautvetter (Public Policy Expert, Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit / Wem gehört die Stadt -RLS, DE). The tour draws on the findings of the project "Wem gehört die Stadt" of the Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, including recent and forthcoming studies on the ownership structure of Berlin with data collected from various groups. - More information on our website: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed Details of the events: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed#programme -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: EVICTED BY GREED: Global Finance, Housing & Resistance - May 30-31
Dear all, I would like to remind you that our conference EVICTED BY GREED: GLOBAL FINANCE, HOUSING & RESISTANCE" it is going on until tomorrow on streaming from our channel: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed I paste down the programme of today and tomorrow. Come to visit us from 15:40 and ask questions on the chat. We look forward to seeing you there! Tatiana --- # PROGRAMME # Saturday, May 30 · 2020 15:40—16:30 · TALK · Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co! Volkan Sayman (Sociologist, Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen, DE). Moderated by Ela Kagel (Supermarkt Berlin, DE). 17:00—18:30 · KEYNOTE · The Human Rights Solution: Tackling the housing crisis Leilani Farha (Global Director, The Shift & Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, PS/CA). In conversation with Justus von Daniels (CORRECTIV / Wem gehört Berlin, DE). 19:10—19:30 · SHORT FILM PRÈMIERE · “StealThisPoster: Artivism & the Struggle of Lucha Y Siesta” by StealThisPoster (Subvertising collective, IT/UK). 19:30-21:10 · PANEL · Resisting Speculation: Ecological Commons, Subvertising & Fighting Tech Domination Marco Clausen (Co-founder Prinzessinnengarten, DE), Yonatan Miller (Tech Workers Coalition, Berlin vs. Amazon, US/DE), StealThisPoster (subvertising collective IT/UK), Moderated by Iva Čukić (Co-founder & Coordinator, Ministry of Space, SRB). Video contribute by Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh, AARG! & Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research, GR). # Sunday, May 31 · 2020 17:00—18:30 · Virtual Tour "Visiting the Invisible" A Berlin City Tour to Anonymous and Aggressive Real Estate Investors Christoph Trautvetter (Public Policy Expert, Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit / Wem gehört die Stadt -RLS, DE). The tour draws on the findings of the project "Wem gehört die Stadt" of the Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, including recent and forthcoming studies on the ownership structure of Berlin with data collected from various groups. - More information on our website: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed Details of the events: https://www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed#programme -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Crossing Borders: Sub-Saharan communities of care & resistance · June 19, 5PM CEST
Crossing Borders: Sub-Saharan communities of care & resistance · June 19, 5PM CEST Disruptive Fridays #9 - Streaming on: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Global. That is the definition and the reality of a pandemic. Yet, most attention and resources are confined by human made borders. Hosted in collaboration with Bridge Figures, Disruptive Fridays #9 connects with creative and activist communities in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa to learn and share about responses relevant to local and global communities. With: Sharlotte Kigezo (Psychologist, KY/UG), Peter Nkanga (Journalist & campaigner, NG), Jedi Ramalapa (Broadcast journalist, ZA), Moderated by Magnus Ag (Bridge Figures, DK) and Lieke Ploeger (Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). Since the outbreak of COVID-19, an overwhelming amount of news and data has been flooding us. The media coverage seems to focus on the national and hyperlocal situation – while we are dealing with a global pandemic. In this conversation we focus on the response of Sub-Saharan Africa to the coronavirus outbreak, and hear from some of the people that work on creating a conversation around COVID-19 – one that can contribute to a more global understanding of what we are all facing. - # Speakers: Jedi Ramalapa is a South African broadcast journalist. She is the current Editor-In-Chief of a non-profit podcasting organisation, Sound Africa; which aims to produce original narrative (audio) journalism which upends the stereotypes and cliches about Africa and Africans. She also hosts Sound Africa's newest weekly podcast series Covid-In-Africa, looking at the African response to COVID-19 and how it’s affecting people on the ground. She will address the impact of the pandemic on human rights. Peter Nkanga is an independent multilingual investigative journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria . He is the former West Africa Representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and specializes in human rights and advocacy reporting. A fierce advocate for press freedom, Peter Nkanga has been at the forefront of the campaign for the rights of journalists in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, he was awarded the “Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism” for his work. He will share more on how the virus outbreak has affected public procurement, the process of governments and state-owned corporations deciding which goods, services and works to spend public funds on. Sharlotte Ainebyoona Kigezo is a psychologist, mental health advocate and spoken word artist based between Kenya and Uganda. She is passionate about mental health and community-based programs that build for a strong mental and physical foundation for the society. Sharlotte has been instrumental in facilitating trauma healing programs for refugee communities and art therapy programs for the creative and arts community. This being on the basis of mental health and factors that act as triggers to mental health like experiencing traumatic events (civil or cross-border wars, sexual assault, cyber bullying). She will discuss how we can best address mental health issues in these times, following her recent work with both refugee and artist communities on mental health awareness and forms of online therapy. Magnus Ag is a human rights advocate, journalist, and researcher. He is the founder & director of Bridge Figures – a human rights organization that scales the potential of artists, activists, journalists & other agents of social change to build bridges and break walls in a data-driven world. Based between Hong Kong and Berlin, he previously worked with Copenhagen-based Freemuse — which defends the right to artistic freedom worldwide — and in New York as the Assistant Advocacy Director for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Magnus serves on Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought’s advisory committee for the project The Politics of Visual Art in a Changing World, is an advisor to Avant-Garde Lawyers, and a proud member of PEN Hong Kong. Lieke Ploeger is the community director and administration officer of the Disruption Network Lab. She is the co-founder of the independent project space SPEKTRUM art science community, where she worked as community builder from 2014 to 2018. Her core interest lies in building and developing both online and offline communities of interest, with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise in an open way. She previously worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation and for the National Library of the Netherlands. She has a double master of arts from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and has been involved in various European research projects in the areas of open cultural data, open access and open science. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp ___
[spectre] Empowerment vs Power - Disruptive Fridays - Today at 5pm CEST
Dear all, we are back with our Disruptive Fridays and I would like to invite you to join us today Friday June 12, at 5pm CEST for our online debate. The speakers all have specific experiences from the fight for justice & equality, against racism, poverty, marginalization, homelessness, criminalization and police brutality. What can we learn from their struggles & achievements, to inform our own fights around the world? Together with us will be Mutale Nkonde (Expert in Tech & Race, CEO of AI For The People, Fellow Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard), Melissa Segura (Investigative Reporter, BuzzFeed News, US) and Marshall Trammell (Music Research Strategist, based in Oakland). More info and online streaming are here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays I hope to see you there! Tatiana --- Mutale Nkonde (Expert in Tech & Race, CEO of AI For The People, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, US) Twitter: @mutalenkonde Mutale Nkonde is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University where she is conducting an ethnographic study on how congressional staffers learn about the impact of technology on society. Nkonde works at the intersection of race, technology and policy and has been working as a Senior Tech Policy Advisory and Fellow at Data & Society Research Institute in New York City since 2016. Nkonde was part of the team that helped introduce the Algorithmic Accountability Act into the House of Representatives in April 2019, She is considering how facial recognition technologies and other surveillance technologies harm black and minoritized communities. Melissa Segura (Investigative Reporter, BuzzFeed News, US) Twitter: @MelissaDSegura Melissa Segura is an investigative reporter with BuzzFeed News and an Emerson fellow at the think tank New America. Her reporting focuses on the intersection of justice, class and race. In 2017 she authored a landmark investigation detailing how a group of predominantly working class, Latina women from Chicago uncovered evidence suggesting a police detective framed at least 51 of their sons, brothers, or husbands. Her series, “Broken Justice in Chicago,” has led to the exoneration of 10 men who had each spent decades behind bars. In 2018, the series earned her the George Polk Award in Journalism for local reporting and recognition as a finalist for Harvard's Goldsmith Award. She is at work on a book building on her Chicago story that examines the cracks in the criminal justice system and the hidden role that women play in correcting injustices. Before BuzzFeed News, Segura was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated. She received her B.A. in Spanish studies and communication from Santa Clara University. Marshall Trammell (Music Research Strategist, US) Marshall Trammell is a self-styled, Music Research Strategist and Common Knowledge Platform fellow at ProArts Commons based in Oakland, California. Deploying interculturally-situated technologies from the Underground Railroad, Trammell has created "Conduction (cc)", a Creative Commons and Critical Creative Music conduction system from reimagining fugitivity, "accompliceship" and self-determination from the era of chattel slavery the World. ProArts is committed to supporting the 22 unhoused artists arrested in front of City Hall for protest against gentrification and the displacement of Black and traditional working class residents. Jonas Frankki (Disruption Network Lab, SE/DE) Since 2014 Jonas Frankki designs and animates the visual identity of the Disruption Network Lab and each conference, and additionally researches speakers, networks and topics for future events. Jonas was born in Sweden, studied Marketing, International Relations, Political Science and Cultural Management in Gothenburg. Since 2012 he is also an Art Director at sinnwerkstatt, a Berlin media agency for sustainability. He is a member of the Disruption Network Lab e. V.. -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: disruptionlab.org/pgp __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] BORDERS OF FEAR: Migration, Security & Control - Nov 27-29
Dear all, despite the difficult times we keep our work going and I would like to invite you to attend the next conference of the Disruption Network Lab this weekend. BORDERS OF FEAR: Migration, Security & Control https://www.disruptionlab.org/borders-of-fear November 27-29, 2020 We will be live from Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin while the audience will be able to follow us online, for free. There isn't any need of registration (you can just connect to our website, and we will be there!). There will be a chat where you can ask questions to the speakers. During the conference, journalists, activists, advocates, lawyers, researchers and critical thinkers unveil the persecution, control, and cultural violence around borders & migration. Here is the live stream schedule: # Friday, November 27 · 2020 16:00—16:10 · OPENING 16:10—16:30 · SHORT FILM: Best of Luck with the Wall + TALK Short Film by Josh Begley (Artist & Filmmaker, First Look Media / The Intercept / Field of Vision, US) & Talk by Renata Avila (Lawyer, Author & Advocate, GTM). 16:30—18:00 · PANEL: Migration, Failing Policies & Human Rights Violations Sally Hayden (Freelance Investigative Journalist and Photographer, IE), Philipp Schönberger (Coordinator, Refugee Law Clinic Berlin on Samos, ihaverights.eu, DE), Franziska Schmidt (Coordinator, Refugee Law Clinic Berlin on Samos, ihaverights.eu, DE). Moderated by Roberto Perez-Rocha (Director for the International Anti-Corruption Conference Series at Transparency International, MEX/DE). 18:45—20:15 · PANEL: Illegal Pushbacks and Border Violence Hanaa Hakiki (Legal Advisor, ECCHR Migration Program, DE), Nicole Vögele (Filmmaker and Reporter, CH), Dimitra Andritsou (Forensic Architecture Borders Programme, GR/DE). Moderated by Likhita Banerji (Human Rights & Technology Researcher, Amnesty International, IN/DE). # Saturday, November 28 · 2020 16:00—16:10 · INTRO 16:10—16:30 · INVESTIGATION: Technological Testing Grounds Petra Molnar (Lawyer & Researcher, Refugee Law Lab, European Digital Rights EDRi, CA/GR) 16:30—17:30 · CONVERSATION: The Journey of Refugees from Africa to Europe Yoseph Zemichael Afeworki (Student, ERI/ETH/LUX), Ambre Schulz (Project Manager, Passerell, LUX). Moderated by Sally Hayden (Freelance Investigative Journalist and Photographer, IE) 18:15—19:45 · PANEL: Politics & Technologies of Fear Gaia Giuliani (Permanent Researcher, Centro de Estudos Socias /CES, University of Coimbra, IT/PT), Claudia Aradau (Professor of International Politics, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK), Joana Varon (Founder at Coding Rights, Tech and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Carr Center, BR). Moderated by Walid El-Houri (Researcher, Journalist & Filmmaker, Lead Editor at openDemocracy, LBN/DE). # Sunday, November 29 · 2020 16:00—17:30 · COMMUNITY PANEL: Creating Safe Passages Thomas Kalunge (Strategy advisor/Agile Project Manager, Migrant Media Network / r0g_agency, KE/DE), Regina Catrambone (Co-founder and Director of MOAS - Migrant Offshore Aid Station, IT/MLT), Mattea Weihe (Cultural Mediator, Sea-Watch e.V., DE). Moderated by Michael Ruf (Writer & Director, Mittelmeer-Monologe, DE). The full programme and further information are here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/borders-of-fear#programme I look forward to seeing you online! All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] HATE NEWS vs. FREE SPEECH: Live Conference on December 12
Dear all, I hope you are doing well at the end of this strange year! We are happy to invite you to our 22nd international Disruption Network Lab conference: "Hate News vs Free Speech: Polarization and Pluralism in Georgian Media", taking place online as a livestream event on 12 December. The conference brings together journalists, activists and media experts from Georgia and Germany to discuss strategies to fight misinformation, hate speech and social network manipulation and to strengthen freedom of speech. We would be glad to see you online for this event - a chat will be active to ask questions during the panels. This conference is part of the 2020 collaborative project “HATE NEWS vs. FREE SPEECH: Polarization and Pluralism in Georgian Media”, in which Disruption Network Lab and the Georgian non-profit organization Regional Democratic Hub – Caucasus collaborate on programme exchange between Germany and Georgia. Conference: 12. December 2020 - 11.30-18.00 CET. Live from Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, and Tblisi, Georgia. 11:30 · INTRO 11:45–13:15: POLARISATION AND MEDIA ETHICS IN GEORGIA 14:15–15:45: MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA DURING ELECTIONS 16:30–18:00: HATE SPEECH & HUMAN RIGHTS Full details & chat for live questions: https://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news-vs-free-speech Workshop: 13. December 2020, 11.00-14.00 CET at STATE Studio, Berlin, and Tblisi, Georgia. ANATOMY OF A CONSPIRACY THEORY — Signup required · On location at State Studio — Full details: https://www.disruptionlab.org/hate-news-vs-free-speech#workshop The project is undertaken with the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia (Eastern Partnership Programme). Feel free to forward the information to other people! All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] BEHIND THE MASK: Whistleblowing During the Pandemic (18-20 March)
Dear all, I would like invite you to attend our 23rd Disruption Network Lab conference: BEHIND THE MASK: Whistleblowing During the Pandemic, taking place online as a livestream event from 18-20 March 2021, during which whistleblowers, human rights advocates, journalists, activists, artists, lawyers and researchers will speak on their work of denouncing abuses and wrongdoing during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. In addition, our Activation programme extends the Behind the Mask conference with a two community workshops on 20 and 27 March. Below you can find our conference schedule, and more details are available here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask We would be glad to see you (online) for this event! Our chat will be active to ask questions to the speakers and interact with us. All the best, Tatiana -- # CONFERENCE - LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE # Thursday, March 18 · 2021 15:00–15:10: OPENING Tatiana Bazzichelli (Programme Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) & Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). 15:10–15:30 · CORONATION Film Interview Conversation with Ai Weiwei (Artist & Activist, CN) and Jess Search (Chief Executive of Doc Society, UK). Introduced by Roberto Perez-Rocha (Director for the International Anti-Corruption Conference Series at Transparency International, MEX/DE). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#coronation-interview 15:30–17:00 · PANEL DEFENDING THE TRUTH IN THE PANDEMIC: Is Whistleblowing the Magic Wand? Thuli Madonsela (Professor, Stellenbosch University, Former Public Protector of South Africa, ZA), María de los Ángeles Estrada (Executive Director of the Transparency and Anti-corruption Initiative, MX), Stefano Fusco (Co-founder, Noi Denunceremo / We Denounce - Truth and Justice Committee for Covid-19 Victims, IT). Moderated by Roberto Perez-Rocha (Director for the International Anti-Corruption Conference Series at Transparency International, MEX/DE). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#truth 18:30–20:00 · KEYNOTE WHISTLEBLOWING & COVID19: Telling the Truth at the Center of Crisis Erika Cheung (Theranos Whistleblower, Co-founder and executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship, US). Eileen Chubb (Care Industry Whistleblower, Compassion In Care Founder, Co-Founded The Whistler, UK). Moderated by Delphine Halgand (Lead Rapporteur, Infodemics Report & Director of The Signals Network, FR/US). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#whistleblowing # Friday, March 19, 2021 15:00–16:30 · PANEL DIGGING DEEPER INTO HEALTHCARE: The Vaccine Rollout, Pandemic Journalism & Corruption Sarah Steingrüber (Independent Global Health Expert, Global Health Lead for Curbing Corruption, DE), Serena Tinari (Investigative Journalist, Co founder, Re-Check, IT/CH), Alexander Nanau (Film Director, Colectiv Documentary, DE/RO), Moderated by Jonathan Cushing (Head of Global Health Programme, Transparency International, UK). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#healthcare 18:30–20:00 · PANEL VOICES OF CARE: Exposing Dangers to Public Health Delphine Halgand (Lead Rapporteur, Infodemics Report & Director of The Signals Network, FR/US), Yvonne Dellmark (Chair, Karolinska University Hospital's Medical Association, Vice Chairman of the Swedish Medical Association, Physician at Karolinska University Hospital, SE), Helen O’Connor (Former NHS Nurse, GMB NHS Union Organiser, UK). Moderated by Cassie Thornton (Artist & Activist, Collective Healthcare Researcher, US/CA). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#voices # Saturday, March 20, 2021 11:00–13:00 · PANEL JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown Suelette Dreyfus (Technology Researcher, Journalist & Writer, AU), Jennifer Robinson (Human Rights Lawyer and Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London, AU/UK), Stefania Maurizi (Investigative Journalist, IT), Felicity Ruby (PhD Candidate at Sydney University, Researcher on Surveillance and Democracy, AU). Moderated by Anna Myers (Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network, UK). https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#assange -- # WORKSHOPS # Saturday, March 20 · 2021 15:00 – 17:00 · ONLINE WORKSHOP With: Serena Tinari (Investigative Journalist, Co founder, Re-Check, IT/CH) # Saturday, March 27 · 2021 11:00 – 13:00 · ONLINE WORKSHOP PIRATE CARE: Politicising Care, Piracy and Biopolitics With: Valeria Graziano, Maddalena Fragnito, Laura Benítez Valero Register to the workshops here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask#workshops -- More information: https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE li
Re: [spectre] THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism
Dear all, I answer to Heath's question writing to the whole list because it might interest other people, too. If you would like to listen to the conversation of last Friday, THE Q IN QONSPIRACY, with Wu Ming 1, Florian Cramer and myself, you can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9U9bQUlSs More info about the event (scroll down): https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays All the best, and enjoy! Tatiana On 12.03.21 18:30, heath bunting wrote: > is there a recording of this ? > > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to invite you to take part in a conversation with Wu Ming >> 1, Florian Cramer and myself tomorrow afternoon (March 12), as part of >> our Disruptive Fridays series, at 5PM CET. We can get questions from the >> audience via chat. >> Read more here (and go to the chat): >> https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays >> >> Since 2020 we have been experiencing two pandemics at once: Covid-19 and >> conspiracy fantasies about Covid-19. The pandemic emergency accelerated >> a process that had been going on for years: the rise of a new kind of >> hyper-charged, social-media-driven conspiracism. In this respect, QAnon >> is a paradigmatic case. >> >> What is QAnon, or what was it? A political movement, a game, a cult, a >> terrorist threat? All that and more. >> >> In this conversation QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary >> social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as >> games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy >> myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer >> culture, Florian Cramer and Wu Ming 1 will focus on three conspiracy >> narratives: "The Great Replacement" (from Renaud Camus to >> Charlottesville), QAnon (from Pizzagate to the Capitol storming) and >> "The Great Reset" (as a set of pandemic-inspired variations on the old >> New World Order trope). >> >> The conversation is centered around Wu Ming 1's forthcoming book "La Q >> di Qomplotto" [The Q in qonspiracy], to be published end of March in >> Italian by Edizioni Alegre, which describes how conspiracy fantasies >> help legitimise systems of control (find here the index in English >> https://edizionialegre.it/notizie/the-q-in-conspiracy/). >> >> Join us tomorrow here at 5PM CET: >> https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays >> >> Get reminders from here (Facebook video): >> https://www.facebook.com/disruptionlab/posts/2664839330428196 >> >> This is a pre-event of our upcoming conference (March 18-20): >> BEHIND THE MASK: WHISTLEBLOWING DURING THE PANDEMIC >> Whistleblowers, human rights advocates, journalists, activists, artists, >> lawyers and researchers denouncing abuses and wrongdoing in the course >> of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. >> https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask >> >> All the best, and see you there! >> >> Tatiana >> -- >> Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director >> Disruption Network Lab >> http://disruptionlab.org >> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz >> Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 >> >> -- >> Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director >> Disruption Network Lab >> http://disruptionlab.org >> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz >> Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 >> __ >> SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe >> Info, archive and help: >> http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism
Dear all, I would like to invite you to take part in a conversation with Wu Ming 1, Florian Cramer and myself tomorrow afternoon (March 12), as part of our Disruptive Fridays series, at 5PM CET. We can get questions from the audience via chat. Read more here (and go to the chat): https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Since 2020 we have been experiencing two pandemics at once: Covid-19 and conspiracy fantasies about Covid-19. The pandemic emergency accelerated a process that had been going on for years: the rise of a new kind of hyper-charged, social-media-driven conspiracism. In this respect, QAnon is a paradigmatic case. What is QAnon, or what was it? A political movement, a game, a cult, a terrorist threat? All that and more. In this conversation QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer culture, Florian Cramer and Wu Ming 1 will focus on three conspiracy narratives: "The Great Replacement" (from Renaud Camus to Charlottesville), QAnon (from Pizzagate to the Capitol storming) and "The Great Reset" (as a set of pandemic-inspired variations on the old New World Order trope). The conversation is centered around Wu Ming 1's forthcoming book "La Q di Qomplotto" [The Q in qonspiracy], to be published end of March in Italian by Edizioni Alegre, which describes how conspiracy fantasies help legitimise systems of control (find here the index in English https://edizionialegre.it/notizie/the-q-in-conspiracy/). Join us tomorrow here at 5PM CET: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Get reminders from here (Facebook video): https://www.facebook.com/disruptionlab/posts/2664839330428196 This is a pre-event of our upcoming conference (March 18-20): BEHIND THE MASK: WHISTLEBLOWING DURING THE PANDEMIC Whistleblowers, human rights advocates, journalists, activists, artists, lawyers and researchers denouncing abuses and wrongdoing in the course of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask All the best, and see you there! Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Amazon Unmasked: Workers' Rights During the Pandemic - Feb 17 - 7PM
Dear all, Here a short invitation from the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin. Our first community meetup of 2021 is happening this Wednesday, Feb 17 (7 PM – 8:30 PM, online), focusing on a very important topic. Amazon Unmasked: Workers' Rights During the Pandemic. https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/amazon-unmasked Christian Smalls, an Amazon warehouse worker in Staten Island, (New York), who was fired for saying that the company is not doing enough to protect workers from exposure, will be in dialogue with Yonatan Miller from Berlin vs. Amazon. The meetup will lead to our upcoming conference Behind the Mask: Whistleblowing During the Pandemic (Free Online Live-Stream) on March 18-20. https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask Free admission BUT the number of participants is limited to 30 so booking is essential!! Reserve a spot: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/amazonunmasked All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance (October 1-3, Berlin & Online)
Dear all, I would like to inform you that the full programme of our conference POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance is online. You are welcome to attend in person at Kunstquartier Bethanien - Berlin, or online, on streaming on October 1-2, 2021 (+ workshops on September 22 and October 3). What power structures and technologies are framing the dominant narratives about China? Who is benefiting and who is resisting? POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance The 24th conference of the Disruption Network Lab Curated by Magnus Ag & Tatiana Bazzichelli. Community events curated by Lieke Ploeger. https://www.disruptionlab.org/powers-of-truth # Friday, October 1 · 2021 16:00—16:10 CEST · OPENING Tatiana Bazzichelli (Programme Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Magnus Ag (Journalist, Human Rights Advocate, Founder of Bridge Figures, DK/NO) & Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). 16:10–17:30 · KEYNOTE: Deconstructing the Communist Party of China’s Human Rights Narrative Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US). Moderated by Magnus Ag (Journalist, Human Rights Advocate, Founder of Bridge Figures, DK/NO). 18:30–20:15 · PANEL: Reporting on Xinjiang: Firsthand Accounts & Big Data to Investigate the Truth Arslan Hidayat (Uyghur Rights Activist, AU), Megha Rajagopalan (Award-winning International Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, UK), Maya Wang (Senior China researcher in the Asia division, Human Rights Watch). Moderated by Stijn Deklerck (Amnesty International Netherland, BE/NL). # Saturday, October 2 · 2021 14:00–15:30 CEST · PANEL: Art & Resistance from the Mainland to the Diaspora Badiucao (Cartoonist and Activist, CH/AU, on video), Popo Fan (Filmmaker, Writer and Activist, CN/DE), Mai Corlin (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen, DK). Moderated by Melissa Chan (Journalist, US). 16:15–17:45 · PANEL: Voices, Tactics & Technologies to Challenge Dominant Narratives Glacier Chung Ching Kwong (Hong Kong Political and Digital Rights Activist, PhD Student in Law, University of Hamburg, HK/DE), Filip Noubel (Managing Editor at Global Voices, CZ), Ray Wong (Hong Kong Activist, Founder of Hong Kong Indigenous, HK/DE). Moderated by Katharin Tai (Journalist, Academic and Policy Analyst, DE). 18:30–20:00 · KEYNOTE: Surveilling a Surveillance State: An Ethical Dilemma Simone Pieranni (Journalist, IT), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Programme Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 20:00 · CLOSING More info & full programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/powers-of-truth#programme --- COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS # Wednesday, 22 September · 2021 18:00-20:00 CEST, Online workshop | Language: English BYOW Workshop: Build Your Own Words to Resist Algorithmic Censorship With: Xiaowei R. Wang (Artist, Writer, Organizer & Coder, US) and Qianqian Ye (Artist, CN/US) Register: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/byow # Sunday, October 3 · 2021 11:00—13:00 CEST · WORKSHOP Digital Self-defense 101 - You need protection whether or not you have something to hide With: Glacier Chung Ching Kwong (Hong Kong Political and Digital Rights Activist, PhD Student in Law, University of Hamburg, HK/DE). Read more & register: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/digital101 14:30—17:00 · WORKSHOP Using Satellite Imagery to Investigate Xinjiang's Detention Camps With: Alison Killing (Architect and Journalist, UK/NL) and Megha Rajagopalan (Award-winning International Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, UK). Read more & register: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/satelliteimagery -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Whistleblowing for Change: Book Launch and Conference - Nov 26-28
Dear Spectre list, this year at Disruption Network Lab we worked on a book project in the context of whistleblowing. The anthology has the title "Whistleblowing for Change", including texts written by 30 participants of our Disruption Network Lab conferences 2015-2020. https://www.disruptionlab.org/book The date of publishing is November 27 and for that occasion we are organising a conference with some of the authors. The conference starts on November 26 with the German premiere of the film "United States vs. Reality Winner", a 2021 American documentary film, directed and produced by Sonia Kennebeck. The book investigates whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke social change. The chapters features contributions from Billie Winner-Davis, Daniel Hale, Brandon Bryant, Barrett Brown, John Kiriakou, Laura Poitras, Simona Levi, Lisa Ling, Lauri Love, Annie Machon, Cian Westmoreland, and others. It is published by transcript Verlag. The PDF of the book is already online and the hard copy and EPUB will be available next week: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5793-7/whistleblowing-for-change/ I hope to see many of you at our event & please spread the news of the book: Here you find the detailed programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/whistleblowing-for-change#programme and below the conference schedule. All the best, and thank you, Tatiana --- CONFERENCE SCHEDULE # Friday, November 26 · 2021 - Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (streaming, tickets & programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/whistleblowing-for-change) 18:00—18:10 · OPENING Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founder & Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), & Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). 18:10—19:45 · GERMAN PREMIERE: United States vs. Reality Winner 1h 33m, in English with English subtitles A 2021 American documentary film, directed and produced by Sonia Kennebeck. The film is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration. 20:00—22:00 · PANEL/Q: United States vs. Reality Winner: Q United States vs. Reality Winner: Q with Sonia Kennebeck (Film Director, MY/DE/US), Billie Winner-Davis (Former Social Worker, mother of Reality and Brittany Winner, US), John Kiriakou (Former CIA Officer & Anti-torture Whistleblower, US). Moderated by Anna Myers (Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network, UK). # Saturday, November 27 · 2021 16:00–16:30 · BOOK LAUNCH: WHISTLEBLOWING FOR CHANGE Tatiana Bazzichelli (Programme Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Elena Veljanovska (Senior Project Manager, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE). 16:40–18:40 · PANEL: Crowd-Sourced Civic Action: Subverting Vigilance, Empowering Whistleblowers Barrett Brown (Writer & Activist, Founder of Project PM, US – on video), Naomi Colvin (Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), Lauri Love (Computer Scientist, UK), Mustafa Al-Bassam (alias Tflow, Computer Security Researcher, Former Core Member LulzSec, UK). Moderated by Delphine Halgand-Mishra (Director of The Signals Network, FR/US). 19:00–21:00 · PANEL: Challenging Discrimination & Polarisation: Whistleblowing in the Post-Truth Era Daryl Davis (R and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, US), Annie Machon (Former MI5 Intelligence Officer, UK/BE), Robert Trafford / Forensic Architecture (Researcher, Open Source Investigations, UK/DE). Moderated by Peter Matjašič (Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Initiative for Europe – OSIFE, ES). COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS # Sunday, November 28 · 2021 11:00–13:00 · WORKSHOP Building Secure Whistleblowing Platforms with GlobaLeaks Free Software With: Rima Sghaier (Senior Community Operations Manager and MENA Regional Lead for Team CommUNITY, TUN/IT). Read more & register 14:30–17:00 · WORKSHOP To play or to be played? De-gamification workshop With: Agnese Trocchi (Digital Communications Manager, Educator, IT) and Jacopo Anderlini (Researcher, Systems/Operations Engineer, IT/DE). Read more & register -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] THE KILL CLOUD: Networked Warefare, Drones & AI - March 25-27
Dear all, I would like to inform you about our upcoming conference THE KILL CLOUD: Networked Warfare, Drones & AI at Kunstquartier Bethanien, 25 – 27 March 2022, in Berlin and on streaming. Details: https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud The dramatic situation in Ukraine and the power takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan demonstrate that war and global humanitarian crises are burning issues at the top of our political and media agendas. But in the meantime, a data driven, global military infrastructure is developing – mostly unnoticed by people and ignored by the media. What is the future of war? Which political and technological strategies are already in use? What can whistleblowing and other acts of civil disobedience achieve in this power game? The conference "The Kill Cloud" debates these questions and brings together, apart from the most well-known whistleblowers in the US drone war, military experts, AI researchers, investigative journalists, human rights lawyers and representatives of NGO such as Transparency International, Airwars, and Kabul Luftbrucke (air bridge). Some light will also be shed on the presence and role of the Ramstein US Military Base in Germany. The conference offers deep insight into the highly problematic ethical issues on the use of AI and satellite technology to enable targeted killing via drones and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as an investigation into how atrocities such as the collateral bombing of civilians without soldiers can happen. Furthermore, human rights violations, surveillance and data protection breaches, transparency issues, and the implication of private companies in modern war conflicts will be discussed. Schedule (below). More info about speakers and programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud#programme I hope to see you there in person or online! Tatiana SCHEDULE # Friday, March 25, 2022 17:30—17:40 · INTRODUCTION Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) 17:40–19:00 · KEYNOTE: The Kill Cloud: Real World Implications of Network Centric Warfare Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Cian Westmoreland (Whistleblower, Former US Air Force Drone Technician, US). Moderated by Daniel Eriksson (CEO of Transparency International, SE/DE). 19:30–21:00 PANEL: The Future of War: Drone Surveillance, Killer Robots & Lethal AI Weapons Laura Nolan (Member, ICRAC - International Committee for Robot Arms Control, IE), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Taniel Yusef (Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, UK). Moderated by Theresa Züger (Research Group Lead: Public Interest AI, AI & Society Lab, DE). # Saturday March 26, 2022 16:00–16:30 · INSIGHT: The Art of War, the Moral Law & the Art of Whistleblowing Brandon Bryant (Whistleblower, Former US Air Force Drone Operator, US), Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 16:45–18:15 · PANEL: Beyond Human Control: The impact of the Drone War on Civilians Chantal Meloni (Criminal Lawyer, ECCHR & Professor, University of Milan, IT/DE), Khalil Dewan (Head of Investigations, Stoke White Investigations, UK), Emran Feroz (Journalist and Author, AF/AT/DE). Moderated by John Goetz (Investigative Journalist, NDR, US/DE) . 18:45–20:20 · FILM SCREENING: National Bird (not streamed) Documentary, 2016, US/DE ‧ 1h 32m, English language, directed by Sonia Kennebeck. 20:30–21:30 · National Bird Q (not streamed) With Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Former Technical Sergeant, Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Emily Tripp (Research Manager, Airwars, UK), Abdul Saboor Arghandiwal (Fixer and Translator, AF), Najibullah (Afghan Representative of Global Exchange, National Bird Afghanistan Production Coordinator, AF). Moderated by Theresa Breuer (Journalist & Co-initiator of Kabul Luftbrücke, DE). # Sunday March 27, 2022 12:00–14:00 · WORKSHOP · Collateral Damage: Monitoring Civilian Harm Through Geolocation With: Emily Tripp (Research Manager, Airwars, UK) & Clive Vella (Geolocation Specialist, Airwars, UK). 15:30–17:30 · WORKSHOP · To Play or be Played: Uncovering Gamification Techniques With: Agnese Trocchi (Digital Communications Manager, Disruption Network Lab, Educator, IT) and Jacopo Anderlini (Researcher, Systems/Operations Engineer, IT/DE) TICKETS: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/the-kill-cloud/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: THE KILL CLOUD: Networked Warfare, Drones & AI - March 25-27
Dear all, I would like to remind you about our upcoming conference THE KILL CLOUD: Networked Warfare, Drones & AI at Kunstquartier Bethanien, 25 – 27 March, in Berlin. We would love to see you in person, but it will also be possible to follow us online. A chat will be active on our website to ask questions to our speakers from remote. Challenging AI powered global military programmes & targeted killings through civic action and whistleblowing. Details: https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud Keynote speakers are drone whistleblowers and intelligence analysts Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling, co-authors of "The Kill Cloud: Real World Implications of Network Centric Warfare", a revealing book chapter of our anthology Whistleblowing for Change (transcript Verlag, November 2021), which gives the title to this conference. Free digital version of the book: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5793-7/whistleblowing-for-change/ Former sensor operator Brandon Bryant, the first whistleblower that analysed and exposed drone-systems and their strategies, will also be present, together with AI researchers and experts, lawyers, journalists and human rights advocates from Afghanistan, Germany and internationally. The aim is to provide some understanding into ethical problems with the use of AI and satellite technology to enable targeted killing via drones and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as give an insight into how atrocities such as the collateral bombing of civilians without soldiers can happen. Diffusion of responsibility and desensitisation of conflicts are characterising the network of modern warfare, which is based on a complex interconnection of technologies and systems of hierarchy. We believe that it is crucial to keep such debate alive internationally and in Germany in particular, considering the presence of the U.S. air force base in Ramstein. The schedule of the events is here: https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud#schedule Full programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud#programme Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/the-kill-cloud/ I hope to see you in person or online. All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change - 17-19 June
Dear all, I would like to inform you about the upcoming conference of the Disruption Network Lab, TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change, that will take place at the Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin) on June 17-19, 2022. https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning The event aims to address the complexities of gender transition for both young people and those who have long fought for this right, and to present the implications of this practice in the realms of art, culture, society and human rights. The programme series includes a conference, film screenings, two community meet-ups and a community workshop. The series explores designs of identity and sexuality both in the online environment and in everyday life. It brings into dialogue artists, activists, performers, transgender rights advocates, medical experts, and the grassroots of international and Berlin's LGBTQI+ community. Below you find the schedule and here you can read the details of the full programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning#programme --- SCHEDULE: ## Friday, June 17 · 2022 (Berlin & Streaming) 16:30 · Doors Open 17:00—17:10 · Introduction Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) 17:10–18:15 · PANEL · Diane Torr: Performing Gender, Beyond Gender Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat (Artist & Art Therapist, FR/DE), in conversation with Stephen Bottoms (Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, University of Manchester, UK). 18:30–20:00 · KEYNOTE · Insurgent Hearts Drew Pham/Dahlia Damoiselle (U.S. Military Veteran, Educator, Sex Worker, US). Moderated by Jay Bernard (Writer & Activist, UK/DE). 20:15–21:15 · PERFORMANCE · King-ing the Drag – Drag-ing the King 21:15–21:45 · Q with Bridge Markland (Performance Artist, DE). Moderated by Nancy Lund (Drag Performer, UK/DE). ## Saturday, June 18 · 2022 (Berlin & Streaming) 16:00 · Doors Open 16:30–17:30 · INSIGHT · Trans Community in Ukraine: During the War and Beyond Anastasiia Yeva Domani (Executive Director Cohort NGO, UA). Translated and moderated by Filip Noubel (Managing Editor at Global Voices, UA/CZ/DE). 17:45–19:15 · KEYNOTE · Science Won’t Save Us: What Will? Os Keyes (Researcher, Writer & Activist, University of Washington, US), Mallory Moore (Activist & Researcher, UK). Moderated by Adrian de Silva (Research Scientist, University of Luxembourg, LU). 19:30–21:30 · PANEL · Hacking Biocodes: Social Revolt, Virtual Worlds & Viral Love Biohack Helena Velena (Hacktivist, Artist & Technologist, IT), Shu Lea Cheang (Artist & Filmmaker, TW/US/FR), Jira Duguid (Artist & Member of Fantasia Malware, AU/DE). Moderated by Margherita Pevere (Artist & Researcher, IT/DE). ## Sunday, June 19 · 2022 · Not Streamed 11:30-13:30 · WORKSHOP · The Empire Strikes Back: A Workshop on the ICD-11 and Trans* Self-Definition. With Sonia Anastasia Steinmann (Community Organizer, MA Gender Studies, Humboldt University, US/DE/GR). 14:30–16:30 · WORKSHOP · Mapping and Monitoring Anti-Trans Movements. With Os Keyes (Researcher, Writer & Activist, University of Washington, US), Mallory Moore (Activist & Researcher, UK). 18:00–19:45 · FILM SCREENING · Sex n Drag n Rock n Role · Free · Not Streamed A Selection of Films in Homage to Diane Torr (Performer, Director & Drag King Pioneer, UK). Introduced by Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat (Artist & Art Therapist, FR/DE). 19:45–20:30 · Q · Free · Not Streamed Bartholomew Sammut (Founder, XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, DE), Stephen Bottoms (Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, University of Manchester, UK), Helen Varley Jamieson (Artist, Producer & Performer, NZ/DE), Laura Meritt (Sex Activist & Researcher, DE). Moderated by Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat (Artist & Art Therapist). More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Reminder: TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change, June 17–19
Dear all, On June 17–19, the LGBTQI+ conference TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change will take place at Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin). https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning The 27th conference of the Berlin Disruption Network Lab is dedicated to the dimensions of gender transitioning from the perspectives of politics, medicine, technology, culture and art. Over three days, experts, activists and artists from Europe, Asia and the USA will network with the Berlin community in panels, keynotes, workshops, film screenings and meetups. The Disruption Network Lab's programme TRANSITIONING: Politics & Technologies of Gender Change aims to address the complexities of gender transition for both young people and those who have long fought for this right, and to present the implications of this practice in the realms of art, culture, society and human rights. The programme series includes a conference, film screenings, a community meet-up and two community workshops. The conference includes a performative talk on legacies of violence in times of conflict by Drew Pham, a queer, transgender writer of Vietnamese heritage and U.S. military veteran, who reckons with the consequences of American wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam; Ukrainian transgender activist Anastasiia Yeva Domani will discuss the current worsening of medical care for trans people in Ukraine as well as the human rights situation and especially the problem of trans women leaving the country; gender, tech and (counter)power researcher Os Keyes, who will speak about the politics of scientific research into trans healthcare; Berlin performer Bridge Markland who will cross gender boundaries exploring the artistic potential of transitioning through role-play and transformation - and many others. The programme will be opened and followed by film screenings of the work of artist Diane Torr (1948-2017), a central force in the drag king scene in the USA, Europe, Istanbul and New Delhi. Schedule: https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning#schedule Full Programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning#programme Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/transitioning/ I hope to see many of you there! All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] MADNESS: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health - Nov. 25-27, Berlin
Dear all, I would like to share some information about our next conference and invite you to join it in person in Berlin or on streaming (as usual, we will have a chat to get questions from the remote audience and it would be great to see you there!). MADNESS: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health - Nov. 25-27, 2002 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin & on streaming https://www.disruptionlab.org/madness What does it mean to have a just mental health care system and who has access to it? Who decides who is labelled as mad? The international conference MADNESS: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health investigates systems of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases and inequality. It is exploring the possibilities of a mental health system which puts human rights and justice in the centre of its practice. The conference introduces the perspectives of scientists, human rights and social justice activists, artists, doctors and practitioners as well as those closely affected – the people living with mental illness, through keynotes, panels, performance, film screening, workshops and meetups. 28th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Concept by Tatiana Bazzichelli & Elena Veljanovska. Curated by Elena Veljanovska. Workshops curated by Nada Bakr. Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/madness/ ## Schedule # Friday, November 25 · 2022 16:30 · Doors Open 17:00 – 17:15 · OPENING & INTRODUCTION Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Elena Veljanovska (Curator, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE). 17:15 – 18:30 · KEYNOTE · Madness and Systemic Oppression Jasna Russo (Independent Researcher & Consultant, DE), Colin King (Teacher, Lecturer, Researcher, UK). Moderated by Elena Veljanovska (Curator, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE). 19:00 – 20:30 · PANEL · Decolonising Psychiatry: Mental Health in Conflict Zones Lamia Moghnieh (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, LB/DK), Reima Maglajlić (Reader in Social Work, University of Sussex, UK), Donato Zupin (Psychiatrist, Department of Mental Health - WHO CC, Trieste, IT). Moderated by Aouefa Amoussouvi (Researcher, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), FR/DE). # Saturday November 26 · 2022 16:00 · Doors Open 16:30 – 17:00 · PERFORMANCE · Sentire Marcello Lussana (Sound Designer, Researcher, IT/DE) and Olga Kozmanidze (Artist, DE/IT). 17:15 – 18:45 · KEYNOTE · State Violence and Mental Health Wilda L. White (Founder, MadFreedom, Inc., US), China Mills (Healing Justice Ldn, UK). Moderated by Julian Schwarz (Psychiatrist, DE). 19:15 – 19:40 · SCREENING · Faces of an Exhibition Documentary by Nina Wesemann (Filmmaker, DE) and Simon Reichel (Filmmaker, DE). 20:00 – 21:30 · PANEL · Art and Survivor Empowerment Marcello Lussana (Sound Designer, Researcher, IT/DE), Anika Krbetschek (Artist, DE), Dolly Sen (Artist and Activist, UK). Moderated by Lily Martin (Researcher, Pop-up Institut, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, DE). 21:30 – 21:45 · CLOSING Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Elena Veljanovska (Curator, Disruption Network Lab, MK/DE). More info about the programme: https://www.disruptionlab.org/madness#programme ## Sunday November 27 · 2022 # Workshop Programme 12:00 – 14:30 · WORKSHOP · Embodiment of Exclusion Olga Kozmanidze (Artist, DE/IT) & Marcello Lussana (Sound Designer, Researcher IT/DE). 15:30 – 17:30 · WORKSHOP · Trauma-Informed Design: Understanding Digital Mental Health and Healing Hera Hussain (Founder, Chayn PK/UK). More info about the workshops: https://www.disruptionlab.org/madness#workshops ### Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/madness/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ALGORITHMS OF VIOLENCE: Border Management, Migration & Enforced Discrimination
Dear all, I would like to invite you to follow our online panel on Friday December 2, at 5PM CET. ALGORITHMS OF VIOLENCE: Border Management, Migration & Enforced Discrimination. With Petra Molnar (Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab / Co-creator, Migration and Technology Monitor, CA/US), Martina Tazzioli (Reader in Politics & Technology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, IT/UK), Yasmine Boudiaf (Researcher & Technologist, DZ/UK). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director & Founder, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Live: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays Surveillance and monitoring technologies including cameras, drones, biometrics, and motion sensors have been implemented to increase the use of AI-controlled surveillance and data collection systems in different domains, from migration management, asylum seeking, to borders control. The second Disruptive Fridays of the SMART PRISONS series, leading to the Disruption Network Lab's conference on tracking, monitoring and control in the context of prison and detention systems (March 24-26, 2023), focuses on the topics of technological violence and enforced discrimination towards migrants and minoritised groups. We are witnessing a degeneration of the use of AI in sensitive contexts in Europe and globally. Who gets to ask questions about proposed innovations and why are perspectives from the ground up relegated to the margins? More info & Registration: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/df32-algorithms-of-violence SPEAKERS Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specialising in technology, migration, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and runs the Migration and Technology Monitor (https://www.migrationtechmonitor.com), a multilingual archive of work interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders. Petra is currently working on her first book, Artificial Borders: AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments, and is a 2022-2023 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Martina Tazzioli is Reader in Politics & Technology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of The Making of Migration. The biopolitics of mobility at Europe’s borders (2019), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) and co-author of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016). Her forthcoming book, "Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles" (Manchester University Press) will come out in 2023. She is co-editor in chief of Politics Journal and on the editorial board of Political Geography- Open Research and of Radical Philosophy. Yasmine Boudiaf is a researcher and creative technologist focusing on data, epistemology and the absurd. She was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2022. She produces art and research projects and consults on project design, strategy and public engagement. She is a fellow at the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Royal Society of Arts and is engaged in research and teaching at universities in the UK and Sweden. https://yasmine-boudiaf.com -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] OPENING PRISONS: Art as Investigation & Deconstruction of Carceral Spaces - Fri Nov 4
Dear all, I would like to invite you to attend our upcoming online panel this Friday at 5PM CET, as part of our Disruptive Fridays series: Opening Prisons: Art as Investigation & Deconstruction of Carceral Spaces With Sean Vegezzi (Visual Artist and Researcher, US) and Fiamma Montezemolo (Artist and Anthropologist, IT/US). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founder & Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) Live & online chat - Friday Nov 4, 2022: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays FREE Registration: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/df31/ This Disruptive Fridays launches a series of events heading to the SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control conference, that will take place on March 24-26 at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. At the core is the investigation of recent developments in the creation of prisons and detention centres, with attention both on technical and ethical implications of tracking, monitoring and control. New York based artist and researcher Sean Vegezzi introduces his investigative artistic project on an obscured part of New York City's carceral infrastructure – as an artistic production commissioned by Disruption Network Lab, whose results will be presented at our conference during a keynote speech. The focus of his investigation is the Vernon C. Bain Center (VCBC), an 800-bed, 191-meter floating detention facility moored in the East River within the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. VCBC functions as an auxiliary of the Rikers Island jail complex and is the primary facility for the criminal court intake in the Bronx. Worldwide, it is the only floating structure that was ever purpose-built as a detention facility. Vegezzi's work with Disruption Network Lab in 2022-2023 will present the history of this structure through a curated selection of archival materials gathered thus far, and a commissioned video installation that will bring the "ship" into more expansive public view from its current state of "offshore obscurity" (Mike Ricketts, 2015). Sean Vegezzi's talk for Disruptive Fridays starts with an extract of the film Edgelands: VCBC, made in collaboration with Laura Poitras and grassroots organization Take Back the Bronx / TBBX (IG, TW). Fiamma Montezemolo works at the intersection between contemporary art and anthropology, creating site-specific, interdisciplinary, and cross-genre interventions that build on her long-term exposure to borderlands and border zones. In this talk, she will focus on specific issues related to the border as a sign of confinement and the possibility of overthrowing its constraining connotation through certain acts of imagination. Montezemolo will present Project Perucatti, in which, working with architect and designer José Parral, she transformed the historical Santo Stefano prison on the island of Santo Stefano from an architectural center of power (the panopticon) into a volume populated with poetic still images. She will also discuss Exit Only, in which 'Exit Only’ is the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History’s exit ticket. The piece meditates on the deferred temporality of a facility whose promise to be closed never arrives, except for those in possession of the ‘Exit Only’ ticket. As more visitors deliberately choose to enter in possession of this yearly ticket and with it to access and create an art critical space, the emergency measures of wartime are gradually disabled. Funded by Allianz Kulturstiftung, as part of the project “SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control” (July 2022-June 2023). More information on topics and speakers: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/df31-opening-prisons -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control. March 24–26, 2023
Dear all, I would like to invite you to come to our upcoming conference in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (or on streaming). SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control March 24–26 · 2023. 29th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons The conference SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control traces back the creation of "algorithms of security" through the past twenty years, reflecting on the effects of technological violence and surveillance directed at migrants, activists, and dissidents in Europe and worldwide. Alongside ethical questions around the abuse of privacy, these technological implementations need to be analysed to hold governments and corporations accountable and socially responsible. Deploying automatised technologies may increase problems of bias, discrimination, and wrongful punishments, and raise psychological pressures to conform, furthering a culture hostile to dissent. SMART PRISONS looks at how specific targets, whether prisoners, migrants at borders, or dissidents, have been progressively marginalised, trapped inside prison facilities, detention centres, or within systems of automatised control, being labeled as threats or suspects, due to intersectional biases or critical political activity. ## Schedule # Friday March 24, 2023 17:00 – 17:15 · OPENING & INTRODUCTION Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 17:15 – 18:45 · KEYNOTE: Investigating the Vernon C. Bain Center: Constellations of Offshore Detention Sean Vegezzi (Artist and Researcher, US). Respondent: Adnan Softić (Artist, BA/DE). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#vcbc 19:10 – 19:30 · VIDEO ESSAY · Traces By Fiamma Montezemolo, Critical Times, 2012 https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#traces 19:30 – 21:30 · PANEL: Are Algorithms and Borders the New Jailers? Srishti Jaswal (Journalist, IN), Sanjana Varghese (Investigator at Airwars, Journalist, UK), Petra Molnar (Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab / Co-creator, Migration and Technology Monitor, CA/US), Fiamma Montezemolo (Artist and Anthropologist, IT/US). Moderated by Sonja Peteranderl (Journalist, DE). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#algorithms-jailers ## Saturday March 25 16:30 – 18:30 · PANEL: Revisiting the Genoa G8 2001: Another World is Possible, and it Needs Another Kind of Computing Carlo A. Bachschmidt (Film Director, IT), MF (Social Worker, IT/DE), Dan McQuillan (Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing, UK). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#g8-genoa 19:00 – 20:15 · PANEL: Targeted by Surveillance: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks & Networked Repression Stella Assange (Julian Assange's wife, Lawyer, UK), Kevin Gosztola (Journalist, Dissenter Newsletter Editor, US). Introduced and moderated by Stefania Maurizi (Investigative Journalist, IT). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#assange 20:15 – 22:00 · SCREENING · Ithaka Documentary (2022) ‧ 1h 46m. Director: Ben Lawrence, Producers: Gabriel Barber Shipton, Adrian Devant, Music composed by: Brian Eno, Cinematography: Niels Ladefoged, Editor: Karen Johnson. With John Shipton, Stella Assange, Vivienne Westwood, Ai Weiwei, John Pilger. https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#ithaka ## Sunday March 26 # 11:30 – 13:30 · WORKSHOP · ISIS Prison Break: Deploying Open Source and Visual Methods for Investigations With: Imogen Piper (Motion Graphic Reporter, formerly Airwars, now Washington Post, UK) and Sanjana Varghese (Investigator at Airwars, Journalist, UK). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#isis-prison-break-workshop # 14:30 – 17:30 · WORKSHOP · G8 Genoa 2001: A Grassroots Media Forensics Toolbox With: Carlo Bachschmidt (Film Director, IT) and Manolo Luppichini (Filmmaker & Author, IT). https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons#g8-workshop More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/smart-prisons Tickets: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/smart-prisons/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Launch: Disruption Network Institute
Dear spectre list, yesterday, on the symbolic date of September 11, Disruption Network Lab launched a research programme: Disruption Network Institute. Investigating the Kill Cloud. In parallel to our programme of conferences and events, this new hub for investigations and empirical research will focus on how artificial intelligence impacts new technologies of war, automated weapons, and networked warfare. On the brand new https://disruption.institute you will find research abstracts and more. An essential novel aspect of the Institute's approach is the direct involvement of whistleblowers and other affected experts. With this approach, the Institute not only feeds into an important ongoing debate regarding the future of warfare, public participation therein, as well as the protection of civilians – it also directly mobilises the knowledge of people with first-hand experience of these systems from within. Four research fellows joined the Institute to start working with us: Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Program), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech), and Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher). Our advisory board includes Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior Executive at the National Security Agency), Jesselyn Radack (Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts), Alexa Koenig (Co-Faculty Director and Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Khalil Dewan (Head of Legal Investigations at Stoke White), and many more. Cooperation partners are Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley; Proto-Centre for Radical Matter: Art. Philosophy. Wild Science. at the Royal College of Art, London; Airwars at University of Goldsmiths, London. Any feedback is welcome! You can help spreading the word or reach out if you want to know more. institute disruptionlab.org All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power - June 23-25, 2023
Dear Spectre list, we are celebrating our 30th conference on June 23–25: ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power (Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin-Kreuzberg). https://www.disruptionlab.org/artivism From June 23-25, 2023, ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power analyses how art and activism can be combined to shift media attention onto important social issues, targeting unethical corporations and corrupt governments working against the public good. The programme presents distributed techniques and methods of provoking social and political justice using digital technologies for social awareness and political criticism. Invited speakers range from artists, political activists and developers to human rights advocates and truth-tellers. A programme of panels, workshops, and artistic productions curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. You can participate online by using our chat for questions at https://www.disruptionlab.org/artivism # Schedule ## Friday June 23, 2023 16:30 · Doors open 17:00 – 17:15 · OPENING & INTRODUCTION Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 17:15 – 18:45 · KEYNOTE · Inverted Gaze: Watching the Watchers in a Well-Watched World Manu Luksch (Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher, AT/UK). Lauri Love (Computer Scientist, UK). Moderator: Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). 19:30 – 21:30 · PANEL · Fighting Technologies & Systems of Domination Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki (Artists, US), Yasmine Boudiaf (Artist, DZ/UK), Tobaron Waxman (Artist & Curator, CA/US/PL). Moderated by Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver (Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, PL/UK/DK). ## Saturday June 24, 2023 15:00 · Doors open 15:30 – 16:10 · VIDEO · Giacomo Verde: The Little Diary of Ailments Il piccolo diario dei malanni · Video performance in homage to Giacomo Verde, 36 min, IT, 2019. 16:15 – 17:00 · PANEL · Hacktivism, R(Ǝ)O Dada & Resistance Discussion with Superazione Collective & Dada Boom Collective (Murat Önol, Virginia Orrico, Alessandro Giannetti, IT), Guido Segni (Artist & Hacktivist, IT). 17:30 – 19:00 · KEYNOTE PANEL · Unmasking Power as Art: Sharing Tactics & Practice Mike Bonanno & Jeff Walburn / The Yes Men (Artists & Activists, US), Cornelia Sollfrank (Artist, DE). Moderated by Klara Hobza (Visual Artist, CZ/DE). 19:30 – 21:30 · PANEL · Breaking Evil: Artistic Actions for Justice Steal This Poster (Subvertising Collective IT/UK), Michelle Tylicki (Artist & Actvist, PL/US/UK), WeiterSo! Collective (Activist Art Collective, DE). Moderated by Natalia Ivanova Mount (Curator & Activist, BGR/US). ## Sunday June 25 11:30 – 14:00 · WORKSHOP 1: Investigative Tactics To Dismantle Supremacist Cuteness Noura Tafeche (Artist & Scholar, IT) 14:30 – 17:00 · WORKSHOP 2: It Doesn’t Work Anyway: Measuring the Impact of Political Art Actions WeiterSo! Collective (Activist Art Collective, DE) 15:00 – 17:00 · WORKSHOP 3: Listening Structures: A Collective Process for Big Tech’s Interrogation Yasmine Boudiaf (Artist, DZ/UK) ## Full programme is online. https://www.disruptionlab.org/artivism#programme I hope you will be following us on streaming or come to visit us at Studio 1 - Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin! As always, the workshops fill up quickly, so register soon if you are interested. https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/artivism/ All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ORGANISED CRIME: A Global Business, November 24-26, Berlin
Dear Spectre list, I would like to invite you to our next conference "ORGANISED CRIME: A Global Business", at Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin and streaming), November 24-26, 2023. As usual you can participate using our online chat to ask questions to our speakers. https://www.disruptionlab.org/organised-crime Investigating global systems of organised crime and corruption, and the connections between crime, politics and business. ORGANISED CRIME: A Global Business discusses the complexities of organised crime and corruption at a global scale. From the local to the global, the conference shows how corruption and organised crime are closely intertwined. Corruption is not an issue circumscribed to a specific form of government, but it involves a global network of countries as well as different structures of economies and parliamentary systems. Global corruption is a distinct and convoluted phenomenon that intervenes and prominently influences both politics and the private sector, making it more difficult for the system to legislate effectively and to efficiently combat it. To effectively inform the public and enhance literacy, we need the perspectives of knowledgeable journalists, whistleblowers, researchers, artists and activists from regions where corruption is considered particularly visible and detrimental to democratic development. These perspectives are also needed to counter stereotypes and to promote a critical, balanced understanding on the mechanisms of globalised politics, trade and crime. A programme of panels, workshops, and performance curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Mauro Mondello. KEYNOTES, PANELS & PERFORMANCE November 24, 2023 17:15 – 18:45 · KEYNOTE · Corruption Unveiled: Austria's Troublesome Path from Strache to Kurz · Julian Hessenthaler who triggered the "Ibiza affair," delves into the issues of power and abuse of power in the state of Austria with Frederik Obermaier, one of the journalists to whom he leaked the video. November 25, 2023 19:15 – 20:45 · KEYNOTE · Undercover: Combating Organised Crime in Africa · Ghanan investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas shows how he uses undercover methods and sting operations to expose criminal rings and corruption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 24, 2023 19:30 – 21:30 · PANEL · Narconomics: Transnational Drug Trafficking & Corruption November 25, 2023 16:10 – 18:15 · PANEL · Politics, Money & Rifles: Exposing Global Mafias, Authoritarian Power & Corruption 18:30 – 19:00 · Find Your Tongue: Performance by Pleurad Xhafa on the case of the Albanian whistleblower Dritan Zagani. November 26, 2023 11:00 – 13:00 · Think Like a Criminal: Workshop with the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project 14:30 – 16:30 · How to Spot Corruption in the International Arms Trade: Workshop with Corruption Tracker & Shadow World Investigations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SPEAKERS: Julian Hessenthaler (Private Investigator, AT), Anas Aremeyaw Anas (Investigative Journalist, GH), Frederik Obermaier (Investigative Journalist, DE), Stephanie Busari (Journalist and Editor for CNN, NG), Stevan Dojčinović (Investigative Reporter and Editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, SRB), Floriana Bulfon (Investigative Journalist, IT), Shehryar Fazli (Author and Senior Policy Advisor, Asia-Pacific, OSF, PK/UK), Vincenzo Musacchio (Criminologist, IT), Dritan Zagani (Whistleblower, Former anti-Drug Police Officer, AL), Denisse Rodriguez Olivari (Researcher, PE/IT), Pleurad Xhafa (Artist and Activist, AL), Andrea Dip (Investigative Journalist and Researcher, BR/DE), Anton Radniankou (Chair of the Board, Center for New Ideas, BY/PL), Verena Zoppei (Advisor Anti-corruption and Integrity, IT/DE), Julia Auf dem Brinke (Co-Founder, Corruption Tracker, DE), Ruth Rohde (Co-Founder & Programme Manager, Corruption Tracker, DE/UK), Rhona Michie (Director of Projects and Planning at Shadow World Investigations, UK). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . More info & schedule: https://www.disruptionlab.org/organised-crime Tickets: https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/organised-crime/ -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab https://www.disruptionlab.org/ E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] BEYOND CONTROL: Resisting Digital Oppression & Authoritarianism - April 20-21, Berlin
Dear Spectre List, I would like to invite you to take part in person or online at our 32nd conference "BEYOND CONTROL: Resisting Digital Oppression & Authoritarianism", at Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin and streaming), April 20-21, 2024. https://www.disruptionlab.org/beyond-control Tickets: https://tickets.disruptionlab.org Challenging wartime systems of misinformation, communication monopolies & anti-democratic propaganda machines. The conference challenges systematic strategies of repression to advance political goals, discussing misinformation and information warfare in the context of right-wing propaganda. The talks expose the monopoly of communication channels that can shape and distort reality, conceal abuses and maintain power, and present strategies to circumvent restricted access to technology and information during wars and conflicts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TALKS & WORKSHOPS Saturday April 20, 2024 16:30 – 16:40 CET · OPENING Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) 16:40–18:10 CET · KEYNOTE · Unveiling the Depths of Online Racism: Jihad Van Puymbroeck's Story to Justice Jihad Van Puymbroeck (Activist & Communication Strategist, BE). Moderated by Nyima Jadama (Activist & Moderator, GM/DE). Jihad Van Puymbroeck, a Muslim woman of Moroccan and Belgian descent, has been active in anti-racist civil society for more than ten years. Van Puymbroeck is one of the civil parties in the lawsuit against Schild & Vrienden, a Flemish far-right youth movement that attacked her online. She won her case after a long agony and will tell her story and expose the depths of online racism. 18:40 –20:40 CET · PANEL · Gaza, Ukraine & Azerbaijan: Challenging Network Authoritarianism Manolo Luppichini (Filmmaker & Author, IT), Arzu Geybulla (Journalist & Editor, AzNet Watch, Global Voices, AZ/TR), Tetyana Lokot (Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society, Dublin City University, UA/IE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Join us to hear three different stories from Gaza, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan, documenting the monopoly of communication channels during wartime. How can we circumvent restricted access to digital infrastructure in war? Sunday April 21, 2024 11:00–13:00 CET · WORKSHOP #1 · Community Girlblogging to Save The Internet Irma Mastenbroek (Mathematician & AI Researcher, NL/DE) In times of digital cultural crisis, girls can steer the internet away from its neoliberal path of self-destruction. Mathematician and AI researcher Irma Mastenbroek will explore how collaborative coding of HTML+CSS web pages can help us gain independence from Big Tech and rebuild community. 14:30–16:30 CET · WORKSHOP #2 · WikiLeaks: Can We Set the Records Straight and Open the Space to Free Assange? Raja Stutz & Claudia Daseking (Assange Support Berlin, DE) Raja Stutz and Claudia Daseking from Assange Support Berlin will discuss misinformation around the case of Julian Assange and share strategies for reclaiming public opinion about WikiLeaks' contribution to press freedom and our right to know. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . More info & schedule: https://www.disruptionlab.org/beyond-control GET TICKETS: https://tickets.disruptionlab.org -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab https://www.disruptionlab.org/ E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
