During transmediale 2015, reSync will promote open synchronisation services and introduce a growing P2P exchange network of free media resources synchronised between those in London [own], Athens [awmn] and Berlin [freifunk] that sidestep the rising sense of network surveillance and preserve privacy whilst continuing to enjoy free media exchange in public and over free information infrastructures wherever they flourish.
Workshop participants will be able to claim a reSync ‘key’, print posters and press their own badges. Each featuring the unique QRcode to promote media stored on their smart phones, tablets and pc’s using Bit Torrent Sync app. Anyone then scanning the code or exchanging the key will be able to receive updates as new images texts and sounds are added during transmediale and therafter. See the howto for more details.
Each reSync is then automatically relayed across our international network nodes using Syncthing (floss) then available on open wireless networks in Athens, London and Berlin (so far!)
It is no secret that ‘pirate’ sites are amongst the most popular in the world. There are already huge numbers (hundred of millions) of P2P users, and the number continues to grow despite technical and legislative attempts to slow or censor P2P technologies. Media industries are quite unwilling to accept the inevitability of filesharing as a significant, if not the most significant, global media distribution system.
Join Adnan Hadzi and James Stevens in the foyer to make sync code badges and configure your media, message and phone things to reSync All at the festival.
http://www.transmediale.de/content/resync-all
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/resync-all-registration-15402396984
James Stevens (uk)
James Stevens (uk) is the founder member of SPC and lives with his family in Deptford SE London. Whilst directing operations at web boutique Obsolete in 1996 he launched Backspace, the proto cybercafe on Clink Street, London Bridge; it became a touchstone to a thousand web coders and inventors, and inspiration for the technology spaces and businesses that boomed in the years that followed. He teamed with Julian Priest in 2000 to present wireless network primer Consume.net which advocated the open wireless networking that today thrives at OWN in Deptford SE8, AMWN and around the world.
Adnan Hadzi (uk/ch)
Adnan Hadzi (ch/uk) undertook his practice-based PhD on FLOSSTV – Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) within participatory TV hacking Media and Arts Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London. Adnan’s research focuses on the influence of digitalization and the new forms of (documentary-) film production, as well as the author’s rights in relation to collective authorship.
http://transmediale.de/festival/blog