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reCirculate

Now as December starts there are several threads to lead us into 2016 that we have been discussing with friends and associates.

The shaping up of Deptford Creek pilot for Mazi has already resulted in a series of encouraging exchanges and outline planning with local projects. Creekside Education Trust, Minesweeper Collective and Birdsnest Pub have all expressed interest and we are looking forward beginning work with them and others as we go along. Mid January YT will meetup with project partners in Volos to sort out details for the first phases.

 

 

YT also traveled up to visit Open University to meet with Mazi partners there and made a short visit to the National Computer Museum at Bletchley Park with Mark Gaved. Mark has been working on Salsa a system of bluetooth responders which we like very much..

During 2012 we worked on research project DeckspaceTv and then up to early 2014 adopted emerging data synchronization tools during operation of reSync which are now both again available in report form. YT will return to Transmediale in Berlin this year as we are collaborating to present a day of offline network development presentations and talks from it’s leading exponents.

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reMem.or/ized

Earlier this week Maydayrooms hosted ‘Militant Technics‘ a fascinating string of critical interactions and introspection over three days at the cafeteria on the top floor in their Fleet Street den. The aim was to develop tuition modules, extend understanding of respective library projects and explore opportunities to improve on in house archive ‘activation’ practices. We started with beer and a great mushroom risotto, thanks to Rosemary !

Sean Dockray of (Aaaaarg/Public School); Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak (Mama/Memory of the World); Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber (Pan.do/ra /Pirate Cinema) joined friends and members of MayDay Rooms collective on Monday for ‘Back to the future‘ a public discussion on the legal challenges to open access distribution in an age of ‘takedown notices’ and other proprietorial threats posed to online information sharing. (audio recording was made)

Your local library is also under threat, but this has ever been so! Act now, to protect you collections, share books and be the media, challenge hegemonic assumptions protecting commercial control over access to information, your quality of public life and freedom rights.

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Data Traces: Big Data in the Context of Culture and Society

IXDM will host a conference on data traces.

Big Data describes a passage into a new era in which the power of data induces a radical transformation of a society whose actions and productdata_traces01ion of knowledge rely increasingly on the accumulation and evaluation of data. The conference ‘Data Traces. Big Data in the Context of Culture & Society’ draws upon this prospect and delves into critical questions of Big Data in dialogue with international experts, academics and artists. It addresses the paradigm of a data-driven society and reflects life in an increasingly datified world. The conference is organized by the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW and HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). The conference is part of the exhibition ‘Poetics and Politics of Data’ at HeK. Further infos can be found on the IXDM website & the HEK website.

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Landestelle & HEK @ Art Basel

Our friends Wisard Bros performed the MidiFizz DJ-set at Landestelle.

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Read more about the Landestelle project (in German).

At Liste Art Fair HeK presents four artistic positions, Aram Bartholl, Constant Dullaart, Raquel Meyers and Evan Roth under the title PEBKAC IMHO.

“Search the web for ‘iPhone reverse product placement’, and you will find a clip from the first ‘Sex and the City’ movie (2008), in which the character Carrie gets handed an iPhone and shrieks; “I don’t know how to work this’. Shot the year the first Apple smartphone was released, the clip overtly illustrates our current relationship to technology. Carrie was not in the know, did not understand popular technology. Left at the altar, not in control of her life, not able to master new technology. We as the viewer do want to understand how technology works, want control, not be left at the altar, and get an iPhone. read more.

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The action of the art group “diezelle” started by 5PM (19 June) in front of Art Basel, as a protest against the police action during the ArtBasel 2013. Another group gathered on the Claramatte for a parallel demonstration using homemade tanks made out of cardboard, shouting: “What is art”

 

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Reclaim our University

Reclaiming Our University Conference at Goldsmiths

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The marketisation of Higher Education has radically undermined the idea of the university as a public institution – gearing institutional priorities towards what is financially profitable rather than socially and culturally worthwhile.

In this context of intense competition between universities for students and research funding, there has been a dramatic growth of capital projects, advertising budgets and Vice Chancellors pay. Meanwhile students face a huge debt burden, and staff, a working environment characterised by unmanageably high workloads, stress, inequality and insecurity.

Read the report.

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FOMO – Fear of Missing out @ ICA

!Mediengruppe Bitnik presents their work at the Fear of Missing Out conference (ICA London) together with Peter Sunde from Kolmisoppi.

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi discusses his work within the organisation Konsthack. Best known for co-founding the controv#FOMO2ersial The Pirate Bay, Kolmisoppi is a Berlin/Kuopio-based Scandinavian hacker/artist working with projects that have the potential to change society. In particular, he deals with questions of intellectual property rights.

The Q&A with Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is led by Matthew Fuller.

Artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik present Random Darknet Shopping Bots, Mail Art and Surveillance Algorithms, giving insight into their latest work around bots. Retracing their recent explorations into the Darknets – from Memes to Onionland – !Mediengruppe Bitnik examine anonymity as a form of anti-identity and the approach of applying loss of control as a means to challenge established structures and mechanisms.

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Cryptoparty @ ThoughtWorks

Cryptoparty: Possible Topics

  • mobile security
  • encrypt emails with PGP
  • encrypt your IMs with XMPP and OTR
  • anonymous surfing Tor
  • privacy enhancing browser plugins
  • file and hard-drive encryption with TrueCrypt hard-drive encryption with LUKS
  • password security and managers
  • Linux installation
  • Tails (safe and anonymous operating system… please bring a thumb drive if interested)
  • Pond (encrypted Tor based messaging system without meta data and spam)
  • …

Also worth a look: index of the handbook
Useful for non-journalists as well: Information Security for Journalists

Timetable

  • 7 p.m.: short intro and welcome speech, possibly followed by short lectures
  • 8 p.m. (at the latest) we’ll start the laptops, learn about the topics your interested in and install/configure the related software

Rules

  • Taking photos or filming will not be allowed. Please leave the cameras in your pockets.
  • Smoking is possible in the yard.

Contact

Please send questions to the Berlin mailinglist. Or through cryptoparty@enteig.net

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Weapons of the geek

Exploring digital spheres with Gabriella Coleman.

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Gabriella Coleman is on of the most (if not the most) prominent anthropologist in the field of hacking culture and digital activism. During the last years, she became known as «the world’s foremost scholar on Anonymous». Her research intensively accompanied Anonymous through the developments of the last years, gaining deep insights on «what began as a network of trolls [and] has become a wellspring of online insurgency», as her new book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous states. It recently has been named to Kirkus Reviews’Best Books of 2014.

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En Necromasse: an optimistic, fungal perspective on death and production

Our friend Debra Solomon opened her show “En necromass: an optimistic, fungal perspective on death and production”

Debra’s practice has involved exploring the role of fungi as transformers of organic materials and as soil builders. Her residency placed particular emphasis on the soil rhizosphere; where plant roots, microbiota and soil fungi interact. During her residency she closely observed soil building in the diverse living locations of the gardens and woods at Schumacher and within the Dartington Estate. She was also able to engage with horticultural experts, including the Head Gardener at Schumacher (Jane Gleason), the Head Gardener at Dartington (Ian Gilbert) and the Forest Garden expert Martin Crawford, in a conversation about the value of soil compared to mainstream agricultural practice.

From this experience she developed a series of screen-prints, presented here, about soil from the perspective of fungi called En necromass: an optimistic, fungal perspective on death and production. The works reference the vast communication and exchange that takes place in around the root zone. Here there is the most life and nutrient production as well as the death and decay of organic matter, as nutritious necromass transforms into soil. The rootball of a recently storm-felled tree, mycelium feeding on a dead leaf, a leaf’s skeleton, and spore prints that appear as ghosts, tell a myco-centric story of materials becoming soil.  The silkscreen prints were produced with the well-known Amsterdam printmaker, Kees Maas.

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Sealed with a Bit

Sealed with a Bit @ r15

Short thesis:
Random Darknet Shopping Bots, Mail Art and Surveillance Algorithms: Mediengruppe Bitnik on their latest works, Art and Technology

Description:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik are contemporary artists based in Zurich. In their talk they will give some insights into their latest works around bots. They will retrace their recent explorations into the Darknets – from Memes to Onionland – and talk about anonymity as anti-identity and applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik has been known for sending a bot called «Random Darknet Shopper» on a three-month shopping spree in the Darknets where it randomly bought items like Ecstasy and had them sent directly to the exhibition space.

In early 2013 they sent a parcel to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy. The parcel contained a camera which broadcast its journey through the postal system live on the internet. They describe «Delivery for Mr. Assange» as a SYSTEM_TEST and a Live Mail Art Piece.