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-<h3>Adam McFillin</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://adammcfillin.net" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ctrlyrown/" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Adam McFillin is an artist engaged in producing performance and installation works that investigate protocol, power and structure in communications networks. His works are often heavily sound-based and have focused on exposing the materiality of signal (Music for AT Musicians) and the abstraction of protocol (D:I:V:I:S:O:N, Loopback).</p>
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-<p>Adam also channels his enthusiasm for user-controlled networks into his CTRLYROWN project, which aims to engage the likeminded and curious in talks, workshops and online knowledge sharing.</p>
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-<p>Adam received an MFA from the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Information Technology from Queensland University of Technology.</p>
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-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>ETHER/OR: AN ETHERNET MOVIE</h3>
-<p>ETHER/OR: AN ETHERNET MOVIE uses Ethernet frames as if they were frames of celluloid film. That is, holders of single, self-contained images that when transmitted at the right speed create a moving image.</p>
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-<p>A pre-prepared set of Ethernet frames will be transmitted on to a physical network loop, to be forwarded endlessly. The frames will be transmitted at a rate as close as possible to 291.456 kbps, or 24 frames per second, the same speed at which 35mm film is recorded and played.</p>
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-<p>The continuously looping stream will be displayed to a monitor, split between a ‘raw’ tcpdump-esque view and a decoded view that displays the payload of each frame (an image crafted specifically to fit inside the frame).</p>
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-<p>ETHER/OR’s structural approach to network infrastructure aims to extend the use of networks beyond their utilitarian function, and by exposing both the frame’s contents and structural format, draw attention to the oft-unnoticed presence of protocol.</p>

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-<h3>Alejandro T. Acierto</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://alejandroacierto.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/aacierto" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist and musician whose work is largely informed by the breath, the voice, and the processes that enable them. Interested in (re)asserting the body into conversations of information mediation, his work embraces the transference of information via media archeologies past and present. He has exhibited artworks at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MCA Chicago, among others, and presented performance works at Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Center for Performance Research in NYC, and Center for New Music and Technology at UC Berkeley. A founding member of Ensemble Dal Niente, he holds an MFA in New Media Arts from UIC and will be an Artist in Residence for Creative Practice in Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University starting Fall 2017.</p>
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-<h3>Transmit 3.0</h3>
-<p>Transmit 3.0 is a continually evolving multi-channel audio performance work for voice, live-processing, and existing networks that considers the complex relationship we have with communication technologies. Exploring the ways broadcasts intervene and shift the audition of the voice, this work embodies the fuzzy signal and noise channels that characterize its sound. With field recordings of shortwave radio broadcasts from the area, live audio signal from the surrounding AM/FM bands, and data transferred over WiFi, this work highlights the material impacts of transmission on the body and complicates transmission beyond information transfer. Situated within a mediated environment, this work begins to ask: what does it mean to embody a “bad” signal? How do existing networks that compete for airspace impact the ways we experience and perceive the body? And can we locate ourselves when our transmissions are dispersed beyond borders, strata, and time?</p>
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-<p>For this iteration, audience members will be invited to participate by intervening or augmenting aspects of the performance through a custom app. Building on the existing network of participants within the space, this work further extends the notion of networked systems beyond the technological, and into the corporeal.</p>

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-<h3>Alfredo Lopez</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://techandrev.org" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p><a href="http://mayfirst.org" target="_blank">May First</a>/People Link is a left-wing membership Internet organization, among the largest in thos country. It acts as an alternative provider to its members and is an active political organization involved in networks, coalitions and campaigns around all comunications issues.</p>
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-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>Technology and Revolution Convergence</h3>
-<p>In the Technology and Revolution convergences, activists of all types gather for an open and non-pressure conversation about what technology has done to our society, what it can do and how do we organize and mobilize to use technology to help build that new society.</p>
-<h4>More Information</h4>
-<a href="http://mayfirst.org" target="_blank">Mayfirst.org</a>

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-<h3>Anna Bialas</h3>
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-<p><a href="https://twitter.com/femalegazebot" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>I am a recent graduate from the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, where I studied the relationship between technology and society. Over the past two years I have worked as a web developer and creative coder, most recently as part of the summer internship program hosted by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Harvard Library Innovation Lab. I am interested in work that illuminates the less obvious ways in which individuals encounter data and digital technologies.</p>
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-<h2>Exhibiting with <a href="shira-feldman">Shira Feldman</a></h2>
-<h3>The Internet Is __</h3>
-<p>//How do we talk about and give shape to a concept of "the internet" -- a word that describes both everything and nothing at the same time?</p>
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-<p>//How do we discuss the here and the now of the all-out internet condition?</p>
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-<p>This installation piece seeks to collect a kind of cultural vocabulary concerning what the internet is -- leveraging "the internet" to help define itself. Using the Twitter API and a Python script, the piece scrapes and collects tweets across the social media platform containing the text, "the internet is," storing the results in a MySQL database every 15 minutes. These results are then dynamically projected as a video; coded in Processing, it rapidly loops through thousands of tweets, ultimately rendering the phrase undefinable, volatile, and ineffable: both everything and nothing at the same time. The installation is imagined to be participatory and performative: soliciting viewers to submit a tweet with the potential for it to appear within the projection. As a digital installation piece, the video functions beyond a creative experience--as both a site and method of data collection. Moving forward, I hope to take the data gathered through the site-specific installation to use in various Natural Language Processing experiments, leveraging algorithms to understand the ways in which people relate to and conceptualize the internet.</p>

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-<h3>Brannon Dorsey</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://brannondorsey.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/brannondorsey" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Brannon Dorsey is an artist, programmer, and researcher who uses technology and reproducible electronic media to navigate difficult terrain. He employs open software tools to create experiences that excite and empower individuals and collaborative communities rather than create passive users/consumers. Brannon's work encourages a digital literacy that celebrates the truly profound technological era that we now live while remaining skeptical of the ways that this technology is being used on and against us.</p>
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-<h3>Browser as Botnet</h3>
-<p>When surfing the web, browsers download and execute arbitrary JavaScript code they receive from websites they visit. What if high-traffic websites served obfuscated code that secretly borrowed clock cycles from their client’s web browser as a means of distributed computing? In this talk I will present research on the topic of using web browsers as zero-configuration, trojan-less botnets. The presentation will include a brief history of botnets, followed by an overview of techniques to build and deploy command-and-control botnet clients that run in-browser.</p>
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-<p>I will present exhaustive research that simulates the potential compute power of such a botnet using publicly available user-agent statistics and web traffic analytics from popular websites. What if Facebook or Google ran unnoticeably small “jobs” on your browser whenever you visited their websites? How much “free” compute could be leveraged from 2 billion users annually? With the rise of distributed computing, such a technique could be exploited to train or run machine learning models, mine a blockchain, or DDoS target servers.</p>
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-<p>In this talk we will explore the idea that the design and function of the web browser presents an opportunity for inherent exploitation. We will discuss both the ethical and nefarious use of such browser-based botnets; How they may be used in the wild and what unique affordances such a technique presents. The preparation and original research for this talk will be extensive as very little information on the subject currently exists. The talk will feature a live demo that includes conference attendees and will be followed by an open discussion into the applications and implications of deploying browser-based botnetworks.</p>
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-<h3>Holypager</h3>
-<p>Holypager is a system that intercepts all POCSAG pager messages in the city it resides and forwards them to one (holy) pager. The installation anonymizes all messages and forwards them randomly to one of three pagers on display. Each message is also printed on a contiguous role of receipt paper amassing a large pile of captured pages for gallery goers to peruse.</p>
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-<p>Pagers use an outdated protocol that requires all messages to be broadcast unencrypted to each pager in the area. It is the role of the individual pager to filter and display only the messages intended for its specific address. The pagers below have been reprogrammed to ignore this filter and receive every message in the city in real time. Today, these devices are primarily used in hospitals to communicate highly sensitive information between doctors and hospital staff.</p>
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-<p>Given the severity of the HIPPA Privacy Act, one would assume that appropriate measures would be taken to prevent this information from being publicly accessible to the general public. This project serves as a reminder that as the complexity and proliferation of digital systems increase the cultural and technological literacy needed to understand the safe and appropriate use of these systems often do not.</p>
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-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KjYzzQ-iUU" target="_blank">Video Documentation</a>

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-<h3>Brett Ian Balogh</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://brettbalogh.com" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/brettbalogh" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Brett is a Chicago-based artist making sculptural, aural and cartographic explorations of the electromagnetic landscape. At a time when we increasingly rely on wireless technologies, Brett draws attention to the personal, private and political aspects of our wireless world. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in digital fabrication, robotics, physics, sound and electronics. Brett is a free103point9 transmission artist and has exhibited and performed at P.S.1, Diapason, Devotion Gallery, The MCA Chicago and The Hyde Park Arts Center among others.</p>
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-<h3>Wilderness Wireless II</h3>
-<p>One might think radio is more of a feature of the developed world rather than the woods, but radio, as a phenomenon, is a natural resource not unlike the air, land and water of the great outdoors.</p>
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-<p>The developed world has indeed commandeered radio for use in communications networks from simple transmitter - receiver relationships via code or voice to our modern wifi network infrastructure. This workshop leads participants through the process of constructing and programming their own wireless network node suitably-powered for off the grid operation. With this system, a participant can create an off-the-grid, wireless, wifi hotspot that will serve participant-determined content via an http interface. No registrar or service providers, your network stands alone from the www. The inspiration for this workshop comes from Brett's 2015 work, Wolf, where a solar-charged, battery-powered wireless web server becomes the den of a wilderness spirit-animal.</p>
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-<p>This workshop is a new counterpart to the do-it-yourself FM transmitter workshops I have been giving in my Do-It-Yourself Broadcast class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2007, as well as at events such as the Sound Megapolis Festivals and other community venues. The class has traditionally been Fm-radio centric, dovetailing with the international radio, or transmission arts community. Tetsuo Kogawa's notion of polymorphous space is a central theme and the transmitter he designed an essential piece of hardware. My argument for these ideas and techniques was that with little investment in time, energy and resources, infrastructure-free networks could be created. The internet has always had the overhead of way too much infrastructure, from satellites all the way down to copper and fiber. With the proliferation of System-On-Chip devices (SoC's) , open-source router firmwares and advanced mesh network protocols, creating your own wifi network is almost as easy to implement as the FM transmitter. The focus of the workshop is to create a point of interest, a source of information, or a den of a spirit. What is your wireless presence in the wilderness?</p>
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-<p>Full list of requirements and materials coming soon!</p>

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-<h3>Brian House</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://brianhouse.net/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/@h0use" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Brian House is an artist whose performances, installations, and interventions address the rhythms of bodies in contact with computation. His work has been shown by MoMA (NYC), MOCA (LA), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ZKM, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Tel Aviv Center for Contemporary Art, Eyebeam, and Rhizome, among others, and has been featured in publications including WIRED, TIME, The New York Times, Neural, Metropolis, and on Univision Sports. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Brown University.</p>
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-<h3>On Wifi, Habits, and Rats</h3>
-<p>I would like to talk about an ongoing research project that involves designing networks for non-humans. In short, I've been working with a small team including a biologist, a journalist, and a couple of technologists to develop a behavior-tracking collar for NYC street rats. It transmits over 802.11 and takes advantage of low-power and low-cost biometric technologies recently developed for (human) consumer devices, but of course adapting that to the murine experience involves rethinking both hardware and networks around their particular ethological concerns. There's a lot of compelling theory out there about animal representations and practices that burrow through the false nature/culture divide, and rats, of course, intimately and infamously cohabitate with us in NYC along with their rich mythos of disease and capitalism. To that end, the larger goals of the project propose a "minor data science" in which observation of the other is intentionally intertwined with one's own rhythms, and personal relationships with rats stand in for the larger renegotiation of our place in a not-just-human world. Networks in multiple senses of the term are thus central to the project, and I'll trace these connections and hopefully invite some discussion.</p>

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-<h3>Burak Arıkan</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://burak-arikan.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/arikan" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Burak Arikan is a New York and Istanbul based artist working with complex networks. He takes the obvious social, economic, and political issues as input and runs through an abstract machinery, which generates network maps and algorithmic interfaces, results in performances, and procreates predictions to render inherent power relationships visible and discussable. Arikan’s software, prints, installations, and performances have been featured in numerous exhibitions internationally. Arikan is the founding member of Graph Commons, a collaborative platform for network mapping, analysis, and publishing.</p>
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-<h3>Data Asymmetry: Interrogating How Power Accumulates in Complex Networks</h3>
-<p>“Big data” is the term used to define the perpetual and massive data gathering by corporations and governments on consumers and citizens. When the subject of data is not individuals, but governments and companies themselves, we call it <em>civic data</em>. Increasingly, a new generation of initiatives is generating structured data on societal issues from human rights violations, to Internet governance policies, from labor crimes to climate justice. These civic data initiatives diverge from the traditional civil society organizations in their outcomes: they don’t just publish reports, but also provide access to their research as a database. However, although many of the issues are interrelated, the data of the separate initiatives are rarely used in relation to one another.
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-In this talk, I will discuss and speculate on ways and challenges of building civic data solidarity networks against the increasingly big-data driven hegemony.
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-	<a href="https://medium.com/graph-commons/civic-data-initiatives-c4a0f40d9a23" target="_blank">Civic Data Initiatives</a>
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-	<a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/data-asymmetries-interview-burak-arikan" target="_blank">Data Asymmetries</a>
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-<h2>Workshop with <a href="zeyno-ustun">Zeyno Ustun</a></h2>
-<h3>Creative and Critical Use of Complex Networks</h3>
-<p>The workshop asks how to map complex networks, how to read those networks with methods such as graph analysis, and also includes practice-based work sketching diagrams, drawing graphs, and more. As a workshop participant, you gain creative skills to answer your complex data questions, which would then inform your decisions. Workshop participants use the <a href="https://graphcommons.com/" target="_blank">Graph Commons</a> platform for collaborative mapping and analysis. View the past participants' work from the <a href="http://blog.graphcommons.com/workshops" target="_blank">workshop archive</a>.</p>
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-<p>Each participant should bring a laptop.</p>

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-<h3>Cory Levinson</h3>
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-<p><a href="https://kohwi.info/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/kohwi" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Cory is an {engineer, analyst, artist} with an interest in {data, social, spatial, sonic} environments and infrastructures. Most recently he was in Strelka Institute’s The New Normal research program led by Benjamin Bratton. His individual research interests there involved rethinking ways of relating to large scale software platforms. Previously he was working at SoundCloud as the product manager for their data infrastructure team. His work there involved building out SoundCloud’s analytics infrastructure, and working on guidelines for how engineering teams codify roles &amp; responsibilities for datasets in large scale engineering organizations. Other personal interests include functional programming, blockchain technologies, mesh networks.</p>
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-<h3>Phi</h3>
-<p>When thinking about the future of decentralized communication networks, we often overlook the mechanisms by which these networks source their electricity. Innovation in battery technologies are making renewable sources of energy more feasible than ever before, so it's time that we start thinking about what peer to peer means for energy production. In addition to improving resilience for energy infrastructure and moving consumers away from fossil fuels, a peer to peer energy system can play a crucial role in providing network infrastructure to rural areas and remote communities, allowing for networks that are autonomous not just in their communication protocols, but in how they get electricity as well.</p>
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-<p>This talk will present Phi, a speculative software platform for simulating and creating networks of renewable energy infrastructure as well as the token based protocols that govern energy exchange within networks. Phi was developed with a small team of interdisciplinary researchers while at Strelka’s The New Normal research program in the first half of this year.</p>
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-<p>Computational networks index the consumption electrical energy, from global data centers that together consume more electricity than large countries, to the energy intensive proof-of-work consensus mechanism at the base of blockchain networks such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. In an effort to rethink the relationship between computation and energy, Phi proposes a digital jurisdiction focused on using peer-to-peer networks to distribute renewable energy resources. Social obligation, rather than the consumption of electricity, becomes the source of value and network stability. In the initial phase, a web-based simulation app enables people to explore potential effects of decentralised energy, currency, and governance on their lives. Later, Phi becomes a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) to facilitate investment in peer-to-peer energy networks that manage resources according to simulations and predictions of the climate system.</p>
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-<h4>Phi Links</h4>
-<a href="https://phi.is/" target="_blank">Phi Website</a><br/>
-<a href="https://github.com/phiproject" target="_blank">Phi Github</a><br/>
-<a href="http://phi.zone/" target="_blank">Simulation Environment</a>

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-<h3>Dave Evans</h3>
-<img src="dave_evans.jpeg" />
-<p><a href="http://evansdave.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/daveevanss" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>I’m an artist and researcher based in Liverpool. I’m interested in the relationship between networks and medieval monasteries. I trained as a sculptor and printmaker but now find myself doing a PhD on asceticism in digital networks. This involves thinking about ways monks sought to regain control of their lives from the pope through limiting their activity and inventing a new type of user. I’ve been using this as inspiration for making portable DIY WLAN’s and self-hosted sites using raspberry pi. You can see some of my projects at <a href="http://evansdave.com/" target="_blank">evansdave.com</a> and <a href="http://whitewizard.org/" target="_blank">whitewizard.org</a></p>
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-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>What Might Digital Asceticism Look Like?</h3>
-<p>I would like to lead a discussion around digital asceticism and what this might look like. Asceticism is relevant not in it’s religious sense, but in the sense of it being a historical practice where one is focused on ones interactions with things and actively limits these interactions. I would like to discuss with the audience existing strategies for ‘choking’ the inflow of networked information (totally opting out for a period, apps that block apps like Offtime, personal strategies such only listening to music from one year per week etc) and the limitations of these approaches. I then propose to discuss what a network is, a benign system governed by protocols, and in the case of the internet, subject to colonisation by the organisations wealthy and well organised enough to extend and control it. This, I will contend, was also the situation in medieval Europe, with a benign network of monks on the one hand, wanting to follow the example of Jesus, and the legal and doctrinal resources of the Pope and Roman curia on the other, applying pressure to worship in a particular way. I would like to discuss the Franciscans approach in particular, who ‘invented’ a new type of user – the de-facto user, essentially one who could use but not own. By doing this I wish to highlight that new forms of networked use, those that rely on an abdication of rights rather than a continued accrual of them, and might offer a clue to what digital asceticism might look like.</p>

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-<h3>Dawn Walker</h3>
-<img src="dawn-walker.png" width="256" />
-<p><a href="http://dcwalker.ca/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/dcwalk_" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Dawn Walker is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on participatory design practices for civic environmental technologies. In addition, she organizes around community networks (Toronto Mesh) and environmental data (EDGI).</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>Neighbour Net Kit</h3>
-<p>Everything you need to share your home internet and recruit people into a neighbour-net in one travel case! Inspired by childhood adventure kits including <a href="http://thamesandkosmos.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/630912_masterdetective_hi_rgb.jpg" target="_blank">"Master Detective Toolkit"</a> and <a href="https://www.alexbrands.com/product/pretend-play/super-sleuth-kit-2/" target="_blank">Super Sleuth Kit</a>, this piece and accompanying zine will interpose an imagined neighbour-net with the contents of a "Neighbour Net Kit." Display includes carrying case, kit contents, modelled paper neighbourhood scene, and free copies of a zine.</p>

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-<h3>Denver Gingerich</h3>
-<img src="denver.png" />
-<p><a href="https://ossguy.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ossguy" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p><a href="https://ossguy.com/" target="_blank">Denver</a> is the founder and lead developer of <a href="https://jmp.chat/" target="_blank">JMP</a>, a chat gateway that lets you text and call people using a real phone number without a phone, part of the <a href="http://soprani.ca/" target="_blank">Soprani.ca</a> family of projects. Denver also works part-time at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, a non-profit home for free and open-source software projects. His hobbies include building magnetic stripe readers, collecting phone numbers, and testing the range of anything with an antenna.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>Soprani.ca: Embracing Then Extinguishing the (Cell) Phone Network</h3>
-<p>While much has been done to make the Internet more free and secure, most people continue to connect to it and other services primarily through the cell phone network, which is neither free nor secure (in many senses of both words). <a href="http://soprani.ca/" target="_blank">Soprani.ca</a> is a collection of projects that aim to liberate us from the surveillance and commercialization imposed by the cellular overlords, through the creation of new networks and software to replace those that take away our rights and freedoms.</p>
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-<p>In this talk, Denver will describe the larger goals and plans for creating a free cell phone network, beginning with the need to connect to elements of the current system, while providing parallel features offering more freedom and security so the current system is needed less and less. He will demonstrate a Soprani.ca project that is already operational, as well as highlight a variety of potential project areas ripe for revolution, such as creating and building upon new radio and chat protocols (both as ways of connecting to the Internet and operating without it, ie. in remote areas), SIM cards, and phone hardware. Denver will also discuss the importance of fostering community as a key aspect of growth for Soprani.ca's objectives, both through the building and running of physical networks, as well as creating software and protocols that people can trust for their communication, whether that be discussing heterodox ideas, political activism, or organizing local events.</p>

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-<h3>Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki</h3>
-<img src="gradecki.jpg" /><img src="Derek_Curry_256.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://www.crowdsourcedintel.org/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jgradecki" target="_blank">Jennifer's Twitter</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Derek_C_Curry" target="_blank">Derek's Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Jennifer Gradecki is an artist-theorist who aims to facilitate a practice-based understanding of socio-technical systems that typically evade public scrutiny. Using methods from institutional critique, tactical media, and information activism, she investigates information as a source of power and resistance. She holds an MFA from UCLA and is a PhD candidate in Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. She is currently a visiting professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Her exhibitions and conferences include New Media Gallery (Zadar), AC Institute (New York), Science Gallery Dublin, The New Gallery (Calgary), Critical Finance Studies (Amsterdam), ISEA (Vancouver), ADAF (Athens), and Ars Electronica (Linz).</p>
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-<p>Derek Curry is an artist-researcher whose work addresses questions of agency in automated decision making systems. His artworks have replicated social media surveillance systems and communicated with algorithmic trading bots. He received his MFA from UCLA and is completing his PhD in Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He has exhibited his work at various venues including: Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin, ADAF (Athens), and the AC Institute (New York).</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency</h3>
-<p>The Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA) is a creative research project that partially replicates an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) system, including an interface that allows users to experience how intelligence agents surveil social media networks and two machine-learning classifiers for predictive policing. Like OSINT interfaces used by intelligence agencies and government contractors, the CSIA recontextualizes social media posts by removing them from their original context and reframing them as a potential threat to national security. The app was created using technical manuals, research reports, academic papers, leaked documents, and Freedom of Information Act files. By providing first-hand experience with social media monitoring systems, the CSIA exposes potential problems with current dataveillance processes in order to help users understand the effectiveness of OSINT processing and make informed decisions when navigating social media surveillance.</p>
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-<p>For the installation at Radical Networks, we would like to create a watchlist comprised of the Twitter handles for the participants of Radical Networks 2017. Tweets from these handles will be surveilled using a keyword search and the CSIA’s two Naïve Bayes classifiers. Onsite will be a way for visitors to interact with the online CSIA application and review twitter posts. The installation for the CSIA has been reconfigured to fit different venue types and spatial restrictions, and we are happy to work with the spatial constraints, resources and needs of Radical Networks.</p>
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-<h4>More Information</h4>
-<a href="https://vimeo.com/150759598" target="_blank">CSIA Promotional Video</a><br/>
-<a href="http://www.jennifergradecki.com/" target="_blank">jennifergradecki.com</a><br/>
-<a href="http://www.derekcurry.com/" target="_blank">derekcurry.com</a>

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-<h3>Dhruv Mehrotra</h3>
-<img src="NgVA7wMo_400x400.jpg" width="256" />
-<p><a href="http://www.DHRUVMEHROTRA.info" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/dmehro" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>I'm an activist and researcher interested in networks power and politics. Currently at the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project and a resident at Eyebeam. I also work with Saycel building low-cost community cellphone networks.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting</a>
-<h3>The Othernet / Internet Island 🏝️</h3>
-<p>Imagine another Internet. Location specific, not through geofencing, but through the physical limits of its infrastructure. There are webpages here that do not exist there. Like a street mural, this Internet island becomes a projection and a reflection of the network neighborhood.</p>
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-<h4>About</h4>
-<p>Imagine another Internet. Location specific, not through geofencing, but through the physical limits of its infrastructure. There are webpages here that do not exist there. Like a street mural, this Internet island becomes a projection and a reflection of the network neighborhood.</p>
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-<p>The Internet is a large communication network comprised of smaller networks. Its power is obvious – communication over great distances of wire has enabled virtual communities to come together, organize, share, and create. However, in our excitement about wide area communications we have neglected the local area, the physical communities in which our infrastructure lives. While the Internet continues to develop into a tool for institutional control and corporate surveillance, I believe that the local area network can function as a site for resistance and coalition building. The Othernet is not The Internet, but rather AN Internet. A new network territory with its own laws. No Internet Service Providers. No quiet collection from advertising networks. No Facebook. No Google.</p>
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-<h4>Othernet Links</h4>
-<a href="http://othernet.xyz" target="_blank">othernet.xyz</a>

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-<h3>Donald Hanson</h3>
-<img src="donald-hanson.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://donaldhanson.net/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/donald_hans0n" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Donald Hanson is a technologist working between art, design and creative coding. His work explores interactive aesthetics, live projection, internet technology, glitch art and parameterizing chaos. Recent experiments involve reverse-engineering file formats, building self-altering websites and creating computer controlled video synthesizer patches.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting with <a href="tiare-ribeaux">Tiare Ribeaux</a>
-<h3>Onion Routing AR Walking TOR</h3>
-<p><em>Onion Routing AR Walking TOR</em> is a participatory interpretation of the inner workings of onion routing and the TOR browser using augmented reality and location-based virtual markers. Each participant will visit a group of geolocated 3D models as waypoints around the Radical Networks venue forming a simulation of onion routing where the user represents a programmatically routed data packet. Each route is randomly generated with each stop slowly decrypting a hidden message.
-</p>
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-<p>This is part of a larger project, <a href="http://www.ubiqcity.com/" target="_blank">Ubiquitous City</a>, a multi-layered Internet based experience about global supply chain infrastructure told through a series of interactive scenes and puzzles, guiding participants through the tentacular networks of the global marketplace and the world wide web.</p>

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-<h3>Evelyn Masso</h3>
-<img src="evelyn.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://www.outofambit.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/outofambit" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Evelyn Masso is a person, engineer, and teacher. She currently writes software at Carbon Five and teaches design and technology at UCLA Extension. Evelyn has designed and built experiences at a variety of scales, from immersive installations to wearables to mobile apps. Her work history includes roles in design and development at Oblong Industries and Belkin International. She has co-organized an art and tech meetup, a workshop on whiteness, and a service design jam. Evelyn enjoys quiet coffee shops and does her best at intersectional feminism.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>Designing Network User Interfaces</h3>
-<p>How do we design for the agency of network hardware’s end users? Home router configuration is difficult without extensive technical understanding (and designing that experience is equally hard). I’ll discuss concepts and design patterns for guiding non-technical users through the setup their own home router. We’ll focus on a standard consumer wi-fi router setup experience and draw on competitive analysis of the major consumer router brands to compare different design patterns. I’ll also talk about my experience applying these ideas while working as a user experience designer at a major consumer networking company.</p>

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-<h3>Frances Lee</h3>
-<img src="frances-lee.png" width="256" />
-<p><a href="https://hellofranceslee.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p>Frances Lee is an interdisciplinary UX/UI designer and masters student in Cultural Studies at UW Bothell. They create digital media on QTPOC safety and trans futurity in the Poetic Operations Collaborative. Frances has worked in the Austin/Seattle corporate tech industry and occasionally gives talks on diversity/inclusion from a trans non-binary and post capitalist lens. They are leading the design and development of the 2017 King County Trans Resource Guide, which provides a safety net for trans people and their loved ones in the Seattle area.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="jen-kagan">Jen Kagan</a> and <a href="ron-morrison">Ron Morrison</a></h2>
-<h3>Decolonial Design, Black Geographies, and Critical Packet Sniffing</h3>
-<p>Detroit-based organizer and archivist Paige Watkins has described their work as "laying a conduit across which stories can travel."</p>
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-<p>We’re thinking about networks in this metaphorical way, as the web of stories and frameworks that shape our understanding of what is possible and desirable. Made material through research practices, we turn to examples from The Negro Motorist Green Book and the U.S. postal service, and open wi-fi networks and packet sniffing tools. By centering these examples, we problematize understandings of networks as neutral and instead stretch our own assumptions making visible their cracks and fissures; uncovering old stories no longer remembered in the hopes of substantiating a future not yet conceived that allows us to survive and upend capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy; relentlessly striving for new ways forward. We hope to use the panel to have a public conversation about our experiences doing this work in different corners of decolonial design, black geographies, and critical technology worlds.</p>

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-<h3>Jasper van Loenen</h3>
-<p><a href="https://github.com/javl/linger/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jaspervanloenen" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Jasper van Loenen (NL) is an artist mainly working with open source code and electronics. His work explores the relation we have with the technology we're dependent on, but often don't really understand.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>Linger</h3>
-<p>Most mobile devices — such as smartphones — are always searching for wifi networks they have been connected to in the past. Your phone is basically yelling every name of every network it has ever been connected to — at home, at the office or at that hotel with the dodgy connection — to see if it will get a response from the router. These messages contain enough unique information* to be used to fingerprint and track individuals, something that is already being done by many different parties, and for various reasons. Shops for instance, use this data to track how many people walk by, how many actually come into the store, and how much time you’ve spent in the candy aisle before making your choice.</p>
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-<p>Linger is a small, portable device that allows you to create and blend into a virtual crowd by storing the specific wifi signals from everyone that comes near you, and rebroadcasting their signals infinitely when they leave, making it seem as if they are still there. As you pass people in the street and their signals are stored in the database, a small display on the device automatically updates to show the number of unique individuals in your group.</p>
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-<p>Physically they may have left, but their virtual presence will stay with you forever.</p>

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-<h3>Jeff Ahking</h3>
-<img src="jeff-ahking.jpg" width="256" />
-<p><a href="https://jeffahking.com" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/0xStarcat" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Jeff is a former emergency room nurse turned software engineer interested in social justice issues, LGBTQ rights, tech activism, and digital security. They work as a freelancer and at a tech startup in NYC.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Workshop with <a href="sarah-aoun">Sarah Aoun</a></h2>
-<h3>Setting Up Your Own VPN</h3>
-<p><strong>Thanks, but we can secure ourselves - Let's set up our own VPN.</strong></p>
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-<p>If placing your trust in a VPN company doesn't suit you or your community's needs, you have the power to secure yourself without relying on them. Let's reclaim our autonomy and protect ourselves online as we see fit.</p>
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-<p>In this workshop, you'll learn how to set up your own VPN with Algo which you can use, configure, and share access to according to your own and your community's own needs. Everyone who joins will be able to freely and permanently use the (fully functional) VPN we set up, and will walk away with the knowledge and resources they need to create and host their own afterwards.</p>
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-<h3>Workshop Requirements</h3>
-<p>If able, please bring a computer or the ability to keep notes and links.<br/>
-Minimal command line skills would be helpful but are not required.</p>

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-<h3>Jeff Thompson</h3>
-<img src="GlitchHeadshot_256x256.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://www.jeffreythompson.org/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.twitter.com/jeffthompson_" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Jeff Thompson (b. 1982, Minneapolis/USA) is an artist, programmer, and educator based in the NYC area. His work explores collaboration with, empathy for, and the poetics of computers and technological systems. Through code, sculpture, sound, and performance, Thompson's work uses conceptual processes like remix, translation, and visualization to physicalize and give materiality to otherwise invisible processes. He is currently Assistant Professor and Program Director of Visual Art &amp; Technology at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and co-founded the experimental curatorial project Drift Station.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>Blank Email Pixels</h3>
-<p>Emails often contain tiny 1×1-pixel transparent or hidden images called “web beacons” used to track when the message has been opened. I gathered all 12,383 of these pixels in my email inbox and deleted mail folder. They were etched into a piece of clear acrylic and shown leaning against the wall, an accumulation of invisible yet real objects.</p>
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-<p>So many web technologies are hacks that transform the experience of being online in ways that are both hidden to the average user, and yet are easily seen if one knows where to look. Like cookies and Google Analytics code, web beacons are invisible signals, hiding in plain sight and transmitting information about how you use your computer.</p>
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-<h3>Jen Kagan</h3>
-<img src="jen-kagan.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://kaganjd.github.io/portfolio/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jen_kajan" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Jen Kagan writes words for humans and computers. She wonders a lot about where the tech left and social movement left overlap–and where they don't. Jen is a recent graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she's currently a research resident.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="frances-lee">Frances Lee</a> and <a href="ron-morrison">Ron Morrison</a></h2>
-<h3>Decolonial Design, Black Geographies, and Critical Packet Sniffing</h3>
-<p>Detroit-based organizer and archivist Paige Watkins has described their work as "laying a conduit across which stories can travel."</p>
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-<p>We’re thinking about networks in this metaphorical way, as the web of stories and frameworks that shape our understanding of what is possible and desirable. Made material through research practices, we turn to examples from The Negro Motorist Green Book and the U.S. postal service, and open wi-fi networks and packet sniffing tools. By centering these examples, we problematize understandings of networks as neutral and instead stretch our own assumptions making visible their cracks and fissures; uncovering old stories no longer remembered in the hopes of substantiating a future not yet conceived that allows us to survive and upend capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy; relentlessly striving for new ways forward. We hope to use the panel to have a public conversation about our experiences doing this work in different corners of decolonial design, black geographies, and critical technology worlds.</p>
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-<h2>Workshop with <a href="surya-mattu">Surya Mattu</a></h2>
-<h3>Intro to Packet Sniffing with Herbivore</h3>
-<p>This workshop is ideal for those who are interested in learning how to packet sniff or learn what that even means. We will user Herbivore, an open source tool we have been working on that aims to demistify the world of network packets for the uninitiated. A handful of packet sniffing libraries and desktop applications already exist for analyzing network packets, but they were designed for people who have programming experience or a network engineering background; they were not designed as educational tools for people without technical backgrounds. In this workshop we will go through the basics of what packet sniffing means and let you try it out yourself.</p>
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-<img src="herbivore.png" width="588"/>
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-<h3>Workshop Requirements</h3>
-<p>You will need a Mac to run Herbivore :( . But all is not lost! Even if you dont have a Mac you can still learn a whole bunch. We encourage participants to work together and share computers.</p>
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-<h4>Note: This isn't a 'hacking' workshop.</h4> 
-<p>The focus is to help participants be able to see how their computers talk to other computers on the internet and the different type of negotiations that take place in the process. If you're looking to 'hack the mainframe' this workshop will probably disappoint you.</p>

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-<h3>Joana Moll</h3>
-<img src="joana.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://algorithmsallowed.schloss-post.com/algorithms_allowed.html" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/joana_moll" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Joana is an artist and a researcher from Barcelona. Her work critically explores the way post-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, Surveillance, Social Profiling, Critical Interfaces and language. She has lectured, performed and exhibited her work in different museums, art centers, universities, festivals and publications around the world, such as ZKM, MAXXI, The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Laboral, The New School, MACBA, CCCB, Centro de Arte Alameda, FILE Festival, ISEA and Athens Digital Arts Festival. Furthermore she is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona] and the co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of Popular Automatisms. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Universität Potsdam, Escola Superior d'Art de Vic [Barcelona] and a visiting researcher at Tactical Tech Collective [Berlin].</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>ALGORITHMS ALLOWED (2017)</h3>
-<p>Typically, a tracker is a piece of code placed within a particular website that allows to monitor and collect data on user behavior. For instance: a tracker can automatically know where a user is based, which computer they’re using, which sites have been visited before accessing a particular site, and which webpages will be accessed in the future – among other more detailed and personal information. The US is currently enforcing embargoes and sanctions against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Ukrainian region of Crimea. Thus, all transactions carried out with these countries are prohibited and heavily sanctioned by the US government. Nevertheless, Google trackers and other online services such as Google Fonts and so on, owned by the American IT giant, have been found within several websites owned by countries under US embargo. It is important to remember that these websites are stored inside hard disks placed in physical territories. Moreover, I recently found Google trackers within the official webpage of North Korea and tried to sell them Ebay as a .txt file. Even though the item was just an intangible piece of data – property of a US company – it was banned immediately by a Bot, another piece of code in charge of enforcing US policy. At this point the usually unacknowledged agency of code is undeniable. Therefore, "ALGORITHMS ALLOWED" unfolds as an ongoing investigation that reveals the many US tracking and online services embedded in websites representing US embargoed countries, thereby exposing the ambiguous relationship between code, public policy, geopolitics, economics, and power in the age of algorithmic governance.</p>
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-<p>This project has been developed as part of the web residency program — Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence – Schloss Solitude &amp; ZKM.</p>
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-<p><a href="http://algorithmsallowed.schloss-post.com/algorithms_allowed.html" target="_blank">Project Page</a></p>

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-<h3>Josephine Bosma</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://www.josephinebosma.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p>Josephine Bosma is a freelance critic and theorist working in the expanded field of art and new media. She (co-)organized several smaller and bigger events around art and the Internet (f.ex. Next5Minutes, De Balie, NIMk), gives lectures and has been published internationally (f.ex. Rhizome, Kunstforum). In 2011 NAi/Institute for Network Cultures she published her first book Nettitudes – Let’s Talk Net Art. She is an external PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.</p>
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-<h2>Presenting with <a href="patrick-lichty">Patrick Lichty</a></h2>
-<h3>The World in 24 Hours</h3>
-<p>Together with artist Patrick Lichty, Josephine will present research about an early network art project from 1982 called The World in 24 Hours (W24H), which was organized and initiated at the time by the late artist Robert Adrian, and ask the audience to think about a possible restaging. W24H was a one-day online performance connecting 12 cities across the globe via the email/electronic message system of the company I.P.Sharp and more. It was one of the first artist projects involving a global computer network and the artists had high hopes for the medium. We want to investigate if it is possible to interpret this work from a conservation perspective and what would be needed to do so. If it can't be done we want to formulate precisely why this is so. We wonder what would be needed to restage this work in a post-Snowden context.</p>
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-<p><a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/dec/30/if-art-is-possible-at-all-robert-adrian-x-1935-2015/" target="_blank">Interview with Robert Adrian</a></p>

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-<p>Joshua McWhirter is a planetary urbanist, hyperreal geographer, tone assembler and texture builder. He makes and shapes sounds and words about infrastructure, technology, media, culture and politics. Sometimes he just makes noise.</p>
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-<h3>The City Deep: Digitalites, Virtualities and Realities in an Uneven and Augmented Urban Condition</h3>
-<p>Satellite positioning systems, embedded sensing technologies, mobile interfaces and digitally-networked objects have effectively “augmented” contemporary cities with pervasive digital infrastructures of surveillance, advertising, data capture and, increasingly, location-based mass media. The dominant imaginary surrounding this ensemble of technologies is that of the “smart city,” wherein these government- and privately-owned infrastructures thread virtual networks and urban space together into a dragnet of commercial logistics, big data governance and immersive digital spectacle — the city as a computer, to be re-coded for maximum efficiency and profit.</p>
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-<p>This talk will propose an alternative narrative: The City Deep. A sly nod to The City Beautiful movement of the late 19th- and early 20th-century, which sought to harness architecture and urban planning as tools for producing “harmonious social order,” The City Deep is at once a socio-spatial imaginary and conceptual map for rescripting our “augmented” urban condition into something capable of supporting networks of mutual aid, dissent, and immersive platforms for pedagogy and organizing. Drawing from the examples in art, radical tech, science fiction and speculative design, this talk seeks to provoke an understanding of cities as complex, unevenly developed assemblages of digitality, virtuality, and reality; and to begin exploring points of entry and possible agencies within this thickened geography.</p>

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-<p><a href="http://xuv.be" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/xuv" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Julien Deswaef is an artist and technologist. Active both in visual art as well as in coding, he has the ability to transform "plastic ideas" into digital realities. He regularly collaborates with artists in the world of entertainment, music, plastic and digital arts. Engaged in Open Source and Free Softwares as an ethical principle, relevantly provides the connection between the visual arts, the world of contemporary images and the most advanced aspects in digital research.</p>
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-<h3>Buena Vista Social Network</h3>
-<p>Cuba has many faces. But one of its lesser known is how Cubans access this worldwide network of networks called The Internet. We do know Cubans have to go through hoops in order to do things that we take for granted elsewhere and thus have mastered the art of achieving great things with a limited access to resources. This presentation is an ongoing research, a picture of the wonders that shape the networking landscape of this island and a wake-on-LAN message to connect with the rest of us.</p>

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-<h3>Lauren McCarthy</h3>
-<p><a href="http://lauren-mccarthy.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/laurmccarthy" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Lauren McCarthy is an artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores the social and technological systems and structures for being a person and interacting with other people. Lauren has exhibited at Ars Electronica, Conflux Festival, SIGGRAPH, LACMA, and the Japan Media Arts Festival, and worked on installations for the London Eye, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is an Assistant Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts, and was previously a resident at CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Eyebeam, and Ars Electronica / QUT TRANSMIT3. She is the lead of the p5.js project.</p>
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-<h3>LAUREN</h3>
-<p>LAUREN is a performance piece that reflects on smart home devices, the tensions between intimacy/privacy and convenience/loss of agency they present, and the role of human labor in the future of automation.</p>
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-<p>We are being sold smart devices that outfit our homes with surveillance cameras, sensors, and automated control offering us convenience, at the cost of loss of privacy and control over our lives and homes. We are meant to think these slick plastic pieces of technology are about utility, but the space they invade is personal. The home is the place where we are first socialized, first watched over, first cared for. What does it mean to have this role assumed by artificial intelligence? Each person’s home is the first site of their cultural education, what does it mean to have this shaped by technology created by a small, homogenous group of developers?</p>
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-<p>In this project, I attempt to become a human version of Amazon Alexa, a smart home intelligence for people in their own homes. The performance lasts three days. It begins with an installation of a series of custom designed networked smart devices (including cameras, microphones, switches, door locks, faucets, and other electronic devices). For three days, I remotely watch over the person 24/7 and control all aspects of their home. I attempt to be better than an AI because I can understand them as a person and anticipate their needs. The relationship that emerges will fall in the ambiguous space between human to machine and human to human.</p>
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-<h3>Leonardo Aranda</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://medialabmx.org/leonardo/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/leonardoaranda_" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Media artist graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the UAEM. He studied the masters in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is director of Medialabmx, a non-profit organization focused on the links between art, technology and social change. He has exhibited in various mayor venues in Mexico, and internationally in countries like Russia, Austria, Spain, Canada and Brazil. In 2015 he was part of the curatorial team of the Transitio_MX 06 International Electronic Arts Festival. In 2016 he participated in IDEAS CITY Detroit from the New Museum. More recently he participated in Interactivos?’17 at the Medialab-Prado, Madrid. Currently he is studying a PhD in Media Study at SUNY at Buffalo where he serves as Research Assistant at the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and Coalesce Center for Biological Art.</p>
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-<h3>SMSbot</h3>
-<p>This is a theory-practice workshop which aim is to investigate into the possibilities of using SMS's as a mean for alternative communication in an era in which this techology has fallen in disuse. The workshop will consist, first, in a discussion around the possibilities of appropiating of SMS technology for creative and political uses, and then it will try to develope an alternative mean of communication following the conclusions of the first part. Some technical knowledge will be shared around building of a custom SMS bot through the use Adafruit's FONA board, Arduino and a Raspberry PI.</p>
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-<h3>PirateCycle</h3>
-<p>Network of Creative Pollution is a device that hacks the main function of bicycles, to turn them into an alternative means of dissemination and propagation of contents. The device operates in a parasitic manner both of the vehicles to which it is attached, and of the telecommunication networks that it uses to fulfill its function. Through the recovery of disused technologies such as SMS messages, the project investigates three areas of exploration: alternative mobility, networking and citizen participation and radiofrequency governance, using art as a way of problematizing our relationship with each of these areas. The device creates a network of content propagation, but unlike extremely structured communication networks, this network is constructed through uncertainty and chance in a logic more similar to how pollen travels between flowers using insects as a medium of transport. The project builds an Exquisite corpse by remixing and redistributing SMS messages received in a semi-random manner, creating a common incoherent narrative by this process. This project was initiated at Interactivos17 at the Medialab-Prado, Madrid.</p>

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-<h3>Luce Capco Lincoln</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://global-action.org/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/gapyouthmedia" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Global Action Project works with youth most affected by injustice to build the knowledge, tools and relationships needed to develop powerful youth leaders, create transformative media, shift culture, and amplify social justice movements. Outreach and Distribution Youth Team is the youth leadership program that connects the youth-produced social justice media with conferences, organizers, schools and film festivals. This session will feature youth producers from The C.O.R.E.</p>
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-<h3>Global Action Project Film Screening and Panel Discussion</h3>
-<p>Come to this film screening and panel discussion of The C.O.R.E., the latest production of SupaFriends, Global Action Project's TLGBQ youth media making program. The film takes place in the year 2032. The dictator Solomon has seized power over one of the five islands remaining after a major world war and stripped people of human rights and freedom. Art and gender expression are outlawed. Borders are highly regulated, and no one is safe. Despite the danger, a group of trans and gender nonconforming People of Color organizers come together to resist.</p>

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-<h3>Marc DaCosta</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://marcdacosta.com" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/marc_dacosta" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Marc is a creative technologist and anthropologist living in Brooklyn. He co-founded Enigma, a data and technology company built on top of the world's broadest collection of public data, and is a fellow at the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School. Occasionally, he can be found on various ham radio frequencies under the callsign KD2MMB.</p>
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-<h2>Presenting with <a href="surya-mattu">Surya Mattu</a>
-<h3>Making Sense of the Ether: Connecting Radio Frequencies with Public Data</h3>
-<p>The airwaves can be a cacophonous place. Signals from GPS satellites exist alongside bluetooth headsets and the dispatch channels of police stations. The emergence of low-cost Software Defined Radios (SDRs) have made this world more accessible than ever. In this talk we will discuss how to join radio waves with the contextual, public information that helps make sense of them. Not only is it possible to use "Automatic Identification System" broadcasts from container ships to understand exactly what’s inside them, but ADS-B transmissions from aircraft overhead can be cross-referenced with the FAA to understand who owns them and where they’re going. By the end of this talk you will be able to identify the particular broadcast frequency of any McDonald’s drive-through in the country and will learn how to locate suspicious cell phone base stations.</p>

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-<h3>Mehan Jayasuriya</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://mehan.info/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/mehan_j" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Mehan Jayasuriya is a technologist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. He is currently a Program Manager at Mozilla, where he oversees the NSF-WINS wireless innovation challenges, which focus on connecting the unconnected in some of the most difficult scenarios. He has previously worked for a variety of technology companies, academic institutions and non-profits, including Tumblr, NYU, General Assembly and Public Knowledge; his writing on culture, technology and policy has been published by The Guardian, Pitchfork and Gizmodo.</p>
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-<h3>Community Networks, Past and Future</h3>
-<p>Before the Internet, there were hobbyist-built and maintained networks. These networks evolved alongside the public Internet, fed into its development and provided glimpses of what a global, public communications network might look like. I'll detail a few of these alternate histories in my talk, with a focus on networks built by artists, activists and women. I'll then highlight some of the problems that hobbyist-built networks can help solve today as well as some novel solutions from around the globe. Finally, I'll talk a bit about Mozilla's Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenges, a series of National Science Foundation-sponsored Challenges which aim to support innovation in community wireless networks.</p>

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-<h3>Muira McCammon</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://howwegettonext.com/persisting-in-dark-times-lessons-from-a-war-crimes-researcher-8b3504f4b169" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/muira_mccammon" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Muira McCammon is a freelance journalist, war crimes researcher, and incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and was later a summer 2016 fellow at the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab. Muira has written for Slate, How We Get to Next, Atlas Obscura, Waypoint by VICE, The Massachusetts Review, Playboy, and others. A Beinecke Scholar, she wrote her M.A. thesis at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the history of the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library.</p>
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-<h3>GiTMO, FOIA, NARA, and 500 Deleted Tweets: Lessons from a War Crimes Researcher</h3>
-<p>This talk will focus on the problems underlying the Federal Records Act and the freedom it has given various federal agencies to develop their own fragmented approaches towards the archiving of tweets. It incorporates over 15 different Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests as well as a case study from my own research involving over 500 deleted tweets from <a href="https://twitter.com/jtfgtmo" target="_blank">@jtfgtmo</a> (the Twitter feed run by the branch of the U.S. government responsible for managing the detention facilities in GiTMO).</p>

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-<h3>Nancy Mauro-Flude</h3>
-<img src="NancyintheVoid.jpg" />
-<p><a href="http://sister0.tv/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/sister0" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist and theorist who researches how we articulate the resonances and dissonances between performing arts and computer culture. Under various pseudonyms she actively works to fuse radical forms of open culture by introducing experimental pedagogy with a particular focus upon relatively conservative and weakly networked regions. She is a professor in the Communications and New Media Department, National University Singapore. Founder of Miss Desponias Critical Media Salon <a href="http://miss-hack.org" target="_blank">miss-hack.org</a> and long term member of the <a href="https://genderchangers.org/" target="_blank">https://genderchangers.org</a> home brewed since 1998, working to actively change the ‘gender’ of technology. Involves projects such as: <a href="http://systerserver.net" target="_blank">systerserver.net</a>, <a href="http://eclectictechcarnival.org" target="_blank">eclectictechcarnival.org</a>, <a href="http://TacticalMagick.net" target="_blank">TacticalMagick.net</a>, <a href="http://Microbites.me" target="_blank">Microbites.me</a></p>
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-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>The Aesthetics of Transmission</h3>
-<p>Transmission (as defined technically) is signal transference from (and to) one, or many, locations by means of signals (light, electrical) or radio waves. That being so, it is posited that an ‘aesthetics of transmission’ backgrounds a technical definition of transmission, and foregrounds emergent forms which are not premised on the visual, but are nonetheless often visually engaging. One of the motivations for developing an aesthetics of transmission is the desire to push the consciousness of the artist and audience deeper into the various fields of code and sensory perception. The spread of the communicative field is never wholly complete, one cannot predict every instance, nor control the production and reception of every variable in the sending of a relay, code or a signal, nor in the multitude of ways that they may traipse. Example projects that will be discussed are situated at the very horizons of perception, where meaning may flicker on and off like a relay switch or an interrupted signal transmission. It is an aesthetic that accommodates artworks that deliberately explore an excess of transmission, a transmission gone awry (that is dissonant and does not reach its target), or a transmission that moves and shapeshifts through a series of states to reach its receiver.</p>
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-<h3>Starlight is a Wireless Signal</h3>
-<p><em>Starlight is a Wireless Signal</em> is a networked art work, a is a cosmogonic ritual, traces of code parsing through the network, are intertwined with translucent light images, in which tendrils and elements are evoked in the telematic tableau vivant. The work explores how we deal with the tensions of ephemeral collaboration and physical separation as we negotiate relationships of presence filtered through computational media and networks. <em>Starlight is a Wireless Signal</em> is a meditation it asks what it means to be human by giving a poetic account of how we automatically engage with ubiquitous transmissions. We have always navigated by the stars, and now as a species, we regularly and increasingly, habitually use networked communication systems (GSM, Bluetooth, Wifi, RFID, QR, AR, radio). These omnipresent transmissions and signals are a new kind of fictional species that exist with/in us. It questions what is happening now information technologies are building new habitats, cosmographies and cosmologies?</p>

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-<h3>Nicholas O'Brien</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://doubleunderscore.net/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/__nkO" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Nicholas O’Brien is a net-based artist, curator, and writer researching Games, Digital Art, and Network Culture. His work has exhibited in Mexico City, Berlin, London, Dublin, Italy, Prague, as well as throughout the US. As a past recipient of a Turbulence.org Commission funded by the NEA his work has also appeared or featured in ARTINFO, The Brooklyn Rail, DIS magazine, Frieze d/e, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He currently lives in Brooklyn and is Assistant Professor in 3D Design and Game Development at Stevens Institute of Technology.</p>
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-<h3>Emergent Marketplaces in Online Video Games</h3>
-<p>Based on historical research I’ve done on 90-00s instances of video game currencies acquiring IRL value, this talk wishes to discuss emergent, user-centric, virtual marketplaces and offline networks of black/gray market video game ephemera. This material includes presenting networks involved in gold duping, Ebay auctioning of virtual property, the Steam Marketplace (and the clashing communities of hobbyist and for-profit game modders), as well as counterfeit Amiibo crafters. Though some of these networks are monitored and regulated—the Steam Marketplace is a good example—others are often ad hoc.</p>
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-<p>For <em>Radical Networks</em> I want to discuss networks that operate either outside or on the fringes of game studio regulation. Furthermore I want to investigate how these networks form, grow, and find ways of becoming incorporated into sanctioned economic communities. Often the work of ardent fans that initiate improvisational networks create legitimate money making strategies for blockbuster studios and triple-A developers. For this talk I want to argue that these networks and communities should be left alone to creatively self-organize virtual marketplaces in order to foster emergent forms of play.</p>

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-<h3>Nick Briz</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://nickbriz.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/nbriz" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>hi, my name is nick briz &amp;&amp; i'm a new_media artist / educator / organizer living + working in chicago, IL. i'm critically obsessed w/the Internet + all my work is re:to digital culture; specifically: digital literacy + ecology, netizen rights, glitch art, net art, remix. i organize events on these topix ( <a href="http://gli.tc/h" target="_blank">GLI.TC/H</a>, <a href="http://no-media.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">NO-MEDIA</a>, etc ) &amp;&amp; teach on these topix ( <a href="http://www.saic.edu/index.html" target="_blank">SAIC</a>, <a href="https://marwen.org/" target="_blank">Marwen</a>, <a href="http://youtube.com/nickbriz" target="_blank">www</a> ) &amp;&amp; produce work on these topix ( independently &amp;&amp; commercially w/<a href="http://brangerbriz.com/" target="_blank">Branger_Briz</a> ). my work's been shown internationally ( FILE Media Arts Festival, the Images Festival, the Museum of Moving Image, the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. ) &amp;&amp; i've been featured in on/off-line publications around the world ( <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gd79z/nick-briz-how-to-why-leave-facebook-405" target="_blank">VICE</a>, <a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jul/15/artist-profile-nick-briz/" target="_blank">Rhizome.org</a>, <a href="http://www.fastcolabs.com/3034296/inside-the-bizarre-phenomenon-known-as-glitch-art" target="_blank">Fast Company</a>, <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2014/07/31/53d8db23ca47419f458b4585.html" target="_blank">El Mundo</a>, <a href="http://neural.it/2012/02/copy-this-drive-real-hard-disk-sharing/" target="_blank">Neural</a>, etc. ).</p>
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-<h3>their tools, ur rules: <em>the tactical mis-use of online platforms</em></h3>
-<p>is it a contradiction if a post discouraging people from using Facebook receives lots of likes, comments && shares on the platform? artists/activists movements--from the Situationists to Culture Jammers to Tactical Media--have for years been resisting the corporate agendas of mass media through a series of techniques centered around the un-authorized re-use of content which was only ever meant to be consumed. but how do these techniques fare in the age of digital interactivity, when the media produced by these institutions isn't only meant to be consumed, but--in fact--designed to be used? what does resistance look like on platforms which anticipate + even monetize those conversations aimed at criticizing them, where it's all too easy to mistake the "protocologically enforced" modes of participatory behavior for our own "tactical" agency. "With so many 'customizable options' available, how can she 'resist'?", writes new-media artist/theorist Curt Cloninger, "The danger of MySpace and YouTube is not the threat that they may wind up archiving and owning all the ‘content’ I produce, or that they are currently getting rich off the content I produce, but that they control the parameters within which I produce ‘my original’ content."</p>
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-<p>while resistance may seem futile, this talk presents why/how it is not. through a theory of mis-use rooted in the tradition of the previously mentioned political art movements, i will present work by artists/activists who intentionally disregard the terms &amp;&amp; conditions none of us ever read. i will also present some of my own projects &amp;&amp; experiments demonstrating how we can leverage the malleable nature of (present day) desktop browsers to enact this kind of mis-use. for example, mis-using a browser's developer console to batch automate, edit, remove &amp;&amp; download content on ur Facebook profile for which the platform provides no official interface or mis-using YouTube's APIs to scramble + unscramble content to the video hosting site which would otherwise not be permitted due to copyright "content-id" systems. &amp;&amp; lastly mis-using browsers' addon capabilities to create alternative interfaces for cloud hosting sites like google drive that let u encrypt/decrypt files before/after storing them.</p>

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-<h3>Nicolás Pace</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://altermundi.net/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/nicopace" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Nicolás is a full-time nomad. He works for AlterMundi, a Grassroots organization devoted to support communities in the self-provision of telecommunications infrastructure mainly through wireless mesh networks.</p>
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-<p>He has been traveling around countries of America, Africa, Europe and Asia to understand the different needs of rural global south communities and to create a bond between them to collaborate in the creation of empowering telecommunications solutions to grow in the exercise of their freedom and power.</p>
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-<p>He also does outreach and training activities in the context of Wireless Mesh Community Networks and is part of the LibreMesh development proyect.</p>
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-<h2>Presenting with <a href="marcha-johnson">Marcha M. Johnson </a> and <a href="rory-solomon">Rory Solomon</a> and <a href="rodrigo-ferreira">Rodrigo Ferreira</a></h2>
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-<p>This panel will assemble a mix of theory and practical perspectives for a critical conversation about the commitment to open networks prevalent in activist, industry and academic circles (including the work of many people at this conference). Often this commitment is framed as re-opening or “redecentralization”: the idea that technology networks, once open, have now been lost to centralized actors and must be recovered through projects like community networks and democratization of tech expertise.[<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Master_Switch.html?id=nlnpJl7lNKUC" target="_blank">2</a>] We will consider how this belief implicitly speaks for a certain kind of actor for whom the net was once open, and will ask: for whom has the internet never been open? Do processes of “re-opening” elide the experiences of populations for whom networking technologies have always been closed? What are some challenges to opening networks to different groups of users for the first time?</p>
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-<p>At the same time, this panel will engage a scholarly concern about network theory as a field for radical thought. Many theorists of networks have given up on thinking with networks, abandoning Deleuzian ideas like the rhizome by conceding that they have been co-opted by global capital and are evacuated of any resistive potential.[<a href="http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/the-reticular-fallacy" target="_blank">3</a>] With this conversation, we will consider how the work of these panelists and others at the conference re-opens network theory as a place to think about radical politics.</p>
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-<p>Scholars like Wendy Chun have worked extensively on what the concept of openness can mean in relation to technology networks.[<a href="https://vimeo.com/16647697" target="_blank">4</a>] In the spirit of this inquiry, we ask: Can we (re)open networks? And if so, how? Should networks be opened like a business, like software source code, open like minds, re-opened like a case file, re-opened like a wound?</p>
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-<p>Marcha Johnson will talk about her work educating young people about technology and building a mesh network at POWRPLNT, a community lab in Bushwick. Nicolás Pace will speak about his experience developing the open source, open hardware router libreMesh and deploying this in communities around the world. And Rodrigo Ferreira will share findings from his doctoral dissertation on technology activism around Uber in Mexico.</p>

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-<p><a href="http://utanapishtim.github.io/" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p>I'm deeply interested in systems, human and machine. I am especially interested in instances of the latter that enable more humane configurations of the former. I work at Nike as a Senior Software Engineer.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>Surveying the Commune Cloud: Joining Hands to Decentralize (Compute) Power</h3>
-<p>We know well the economic and digital power we cede in adopting applications built upon centralized "cloud" infrastructure. This talk argues that a fruitful path towards re-empowerment lies in the commune cloud. The commune cloud draws together a set of technologies that allow individual and community owned compute resources to be arbitrarily federated and enabled to safely execute arbitrary computation; in short, we need to move the cloud from the data center to our phones. Gathering ideas contained in the work on decentralized public key infrastructure, filecoin, seccomp-bpf, linux namespaces and capabilities, peer-to-peer networks, botnets, sandboxing, delegative democracy, and edge computing we’ll imagine a path back to empowerment through the commune cloud.</p>

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-<h3>Patrick Lichty</h3>
-<p><a href="http://www.voyd.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p>Patrick Lichty is an artist, writer, educator, and activist who deals with technology, culture and the role mediation has on shaping human cognition, politics and the way reality is shaped in the public imaginary. He has been involved in collectives such as Second front, The Yes Men, RTMark, Terminal Time , and Pocha Nostra. He is also a Herb Alpert/Calarts Fellow, a Fulbright finalist, and exhibitor at numerous bienniales and festivals like TED, Ars Electronica, Sundance, and the Venice and Yokohama Bienniales. He is an Assistant Professor of Animation and Multimedia at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="josephine-bosma">Josephine Bosma</a></h2>
-<h3>The World in 24 Hours</h3>
-<p>Together with critic and theorist Josephine Bosma, Patrick will present research about an early network art project from 1982 called The World in 24 Hours (W24H), which was organized and initiated at the time by the late artist Robert Adrian, and ask the audience to think about a possible restaging. W24H was a one-day online performance connecting 12 cities across the globe via the email/electronic message system of the company I.P.Sharp and more. It was one of the first artist projects involving a global computer network and the artists had high hopes for the medium. We want to investigate if it is possible to interpret this work from a conservation perspective and what would be needed to do so. If it can't be done we want to formulate precisely why this is so. We wonder what would be needed to restage this work in a post-Snowden context.</p>
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-<h4>Further Reading</h4>
-<p><a href="http://alien.mur.at/rax/24_HOURS/" target="_blank">More info about W24H</a></p>
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-<p><a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/dec/30/if-art-is-possible-at-all-robert-adrian-x-1935-2015/" target="_blank">Interview with Robert Adrian</a></p>

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-<h3>Rodrigo Ferreira</h3>
-<img src="Rodrigo-Ferreira.jpg" width="256" />
-<p>Rodrigo is a PhD Candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His dissertation research focuses on the techno-cultural mediation of digital technology, urban development, and material infrastructure in his native Mexico City. Previously, Rodrigo worked for over five years as Communications Specialist for Latin America at J.P. Morgan.  He holds a BA degree in Philosophy with Honors and a MA degree in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU; and has presented his work at numerous academic and art institutions such as Yale, Georgetown, Berkeley, UNAM (Mexico), ArtBo (Colombia) and ENS (France).</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="marcha-johnson">Marcha M. Johnson </a> and <a href="nicolas-pace">Nicolás Pace</a> and <a href="rory-solomon">Rory Solomon</a></h2>
-<h3>Network (Re)Openings</h3>
-<p>This panel will assemble a mix of theory and practical perspectives for a critical conversation about the commitment to open networks prevalent in activist, industry and academic circles (including the work of many people at this conference). Often this commitment is framed as re-opening or “redecentralization”: the idea that technology networks, once open, have now been lost to centralized actors and must be recovered through projects like community networks and democratization of tech expertise.[<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Master_Switch.html?id=nlnpJl7lNKUC" target="_blank">2</a>] We will consider how this belief implicitly speaks for a certain kind of actor for whom the net was once open, and will ask: for whom has the internet never been open? Do processes of “re-opening” elide the experiences of populations for whom networking technologies have always been closed? What are some challenges to opening networks to different groups of users for the first time?</p>
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-<p>At the same time, this panel will engage a scholarly concern about network theory as a field for radical thought. Many theorists of networks have given up on thinking with networks, abandoning Deleuzian ideas like the rhizome by conceding that they have been co-opted by global capital and are evacuated of any resistive potential.[<a href="http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/the-reticular-fallacy" target="_blank">3</a>] With this conversation, we will consider how the work of these panelists and others at the conference re-opens network theory as a place to think about radical politics.</p>
-
-<p>Scholars like Wendy Chun have worked extensively on what the concept of openness can mean in relation to technology networks.[<a href="https://vimeo.com/16647697" target="_blank">4</a>] In the spirit of this inquiry, we ask: Can we (re)open networks? And if so, how? Should networks be opened like a business, like software source code, open like minds, re-opened like a case file, re-opened like a wound?</p>
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-<p>Marcha Johnson will talk about her work educating young people about technology and building a mesh network at POWRPLNT, a community lab in Bushwick. Nicolás Pace will speak about his experience developing the open source, open hardware router libreMesh and deploying this in communities around the world. And Rodrigo Ferreira will share findings from his doctoral dissertation on technology activism around Uber in Mexico.</p>

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-<h3>Ron Morrison</h3>
-<img src="ron-morrison.png" width="256" />
-<p><a href="http://www.threadcountcreative.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></p>
-<p>Ron Morrison is a designer, artist, and urbanist. Their practice works to create strategies using art and design that help people understand how urban systems work and how to act within their fissures and inconsistencies. From these dissonant spaces we learn to rework and retune systems towards an increased potential for collaboration and action. They believe that people should have full access to shaping their cities and communities and see design as a medium for creating knowledge and moving beyond paralysis in the face of complexity. From building open source platforms to upend the continued practice of solitary confinement to crafting community based archives to combat gentrification, their work investigates cartographies of slow violence, dispossession, embodied data, and blackness. They have been a collaborator with design teams that implemented projects in New Orleans, Ghana, Colombia, Ethiopia, New York, and Venice and have had work featured in AIA New York, the UN World Urban Forum, and the Tribeca Film Festival. They currently teach in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="jen-kagan">Jen Kagan</a> and <a href="frances-lee">Frances Lee</a></h2>
-<h3>Decolonial Design, Black Geographies, and Critical Packet Sniffing</h3>
-<p>Detroit-based organizer and archivist Paige Watkins has described their work as "laying a conduit across which stories can travel."</p>
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-<p>We’re thinking about networks in this metaphorical way, as the web of stories and frameworks that shape our understanding of what is possible and desirable. Made material through research practices, we turn to examples from The Negro Motorist Green Book and the U.S. postal service, and open wi-fi networks and packet sniffing tools. By centering these examples, we problematize understandings of networks as neutral and instead stretch our own assumptions making visible their cracks and fissures; uncovering old stories no longer remembered in the hopes of substantiating a future not yet conceived that allows us to survive and upend capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy; relentlessly striving for new ways forward. We hope to use the panel to have a public conversation about our experiences doing this work in different corners of decolonial design, black geographies, and critical technology worlds.</p>

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-<h3>Rory Solomon</h3>
-<img src="rory-solomon.jpg" width="256" />
-<p><a href="https://twitter.com/rorys" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Rory Solomon is a doctoral student in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also a software engineer, artist, and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. His research focusses on mesh networks, Citizens’ Band and amateur radio, wireless infrastructures of antennae and electromagnetic waves, and computer programming education.  He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School, where his thesis “The Stack: A Media Archaeology of the Computer Program” received an Award of Academic Achievement.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="marcha-johnson">Marcha M. Johnson</a> and <a href="nicolas-pace">Nicolás Pace</a> and <a href="rodrigo-ferreira">Rodrigo Ferreira</a></h2>
-<h3>Network (Re)Openings</h3>
-<p>This panel will assemble a mix of theory and practical perspectives for a critical conversation about the commitment to open networks prevalent in activist, industry and academic circles (including the work of many people at this conference). Often this commitment is framed as re-opening or “redecentralization”: the idea that technology networks, once open, have now been lost to centralized actors and must be recovered through projects like community networks and democratization of tech expertise.[<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Master_Switch.html?id=nlnpJl7lNKUC" target="_blank">2</a>] We will consider how this belief implicitly speaks for a certain kind of actor for whom the net was once open, and will ask: for whom has the internet never been open? Do processes of “re-opening” elide the experiences of populations for whom networking technologies have always been closed? What are some challenges to opening networks to different groups of users for the first time?</p>
-
-<p>At the same time, this panel will engage a scholarly concern about network theory as a field for radical thought. Many theorists of networks have given up on thinking with networks, abandoning Deleuzian ideas like the rhizome by conceding that they have been co-opted by global capital and are evacuated of any resistive potential.[<a href="http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/the-reticular-fallacy" target="_blank">3</a>] With this conversation, we will consider how the work of these panelists and others at the conference re-opens network theory as a place to think about radical politics.</p>
-
-<p>Scholars like Wendy Chun have worked extensively on what the concept of openness can mean in relation to technology networks.[<a href="https://vimeo.com/16647697" target="_blank">4</a>] In the spirit of this inquiry, we ask: Can we (re)open networks? And if so, how? Should networks be opened like a business, like software source code, open like minds, re-opened like a case file, re-opened like a wound?</p>
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-<p>Marcha Johnson will talk about her work educating young people about technology and building a mesh network at POWRPLNT, a community lab in Bushwick. Nicolás Pace will speak about his experience developing the open source, open hardware router libreMesh and deploying this in communities around the world. And Rodrigo Ferreira will share findings from his doctoral dissertation on technology activism around Uber in Mexico.</p>

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-<h3>S Friend</h3>
-<img src="myfacesmaller.jpg" />
-<p><a href="https://isthisa.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/isthisanart_" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>I am a software engineer and artist who’s been focusing on the development of games, interactive experiences, and open source tools. Professionally, I specialize in blockchain analytics - personally, my practice more broadly explores the polar concerns of privacy and transparency and the political/environmental implications of technology. Community organizations I am involved with include: Toronto Mesh, The Reported (a database of police-involved deaths in Canada), The Toronto Tool Library, and Dames Making Games.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting</h2>
-<h3>Captive Portal: Customs and Border Protection</h3>
-<p>Captive Portal: Customs and Border Protection is a digital installation and alternate reality game installed in a Captive Portal, or wifi splash page. The player/user explores a digital border-checkpoint and is asked to submit personal information in order to pass. It was commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv for their Captive Portal series in Jan 2017, and is currently on display. The Captive Portal series is curated by Yoav Lifshitz, Tal Messing, and CCA Curator Chen Tamir.</p>

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-<h3>Sarah Aoun</h3>
-<img src="sarah-aoun.jpg" width="256" />
-<p><a href="http://www.sarahaoun.com" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/sa0un" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Sarah Aoun is a data activist, operational security trainer, programmer, and a 2017 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow. Her area of expertise lies at the intersection of tech and human rights. Sarah currently trains activists, journalists, youth groups, and NGOs in digital security, ethical data &amp; privacy, and data-driven storytelling, in the US and MENA region. Sarah grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and is fluent in Arabic, French, English, and Italian.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="jeff-ahking">Jeff Ahking</a></h2>
-<h3>Setting Up Your Own VPN</h3>
-<p><strong>Thanks, but we can secure ourselves - Let's set up our own VPN.</strong></p>
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-<p>If placing your trust in a VPN company doesn't suit you or your community's needs, you have the power to secure yourself without relying on them. Let's reclaim our autonomy and protect ourselves online as we see fit.</p>
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-<p>In this workshop, you'll learn how to set up your own VPN with Algo which you can use, configure, and share access to according to your own and your community's own needs. Everyone who joins will be able to freely and permanently use the (fully functional) VPN we set up, and will walk away with the knowledge and resources they need to create and host their own afterwards.</p>
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-<h3>Workshop Requirements</h3>
-<p>If able, please bring a computer or the ability to keep notes and links.<br/>
-Minimal command line skills would be helpful but are not required.</p>

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-<h3>Shira Feldman</h3>
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-<p><a href="http://www.shira-feldman.net/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.twitter.com/shirarbira" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Hi! My name is Shira Feldman; I'm a recent NYU graduate having concentrated in critical internet theory and new media art. My interests lay particularly in the design and ethics of networks, as they manifest both technically and conceptually. This past year I wrote a thesis on "post internet" artworks, following the claim, "the internet does not exist" from an e-flux journal published in 2015. You can find my work online at www.shira-feldman.net, and some thoughts & memes on Twitter, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/shirarbira" target="_blank">@shirarbira</a>.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Exhibiting with <a href="anna-bialas">Anna Bialas</a></h2>
-<h3>The Internet Is __</h3>
-<p>//How do we talk about and give shape to a concept of "the internet" -- a word that describes both everything and nothing at the same time?</p>
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-<p>//How do we discuss the here and the now of the all-out internet condition?</p>
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-<p>This installation piece seeks to collect a kind of cultural vocabulary concerning what the internet is -- leveraging "the internet" to help define itself. Using the Twitter API and a Python script, the piece scrapes and collects tweets across the social media platform containing the text, "the internet is," storing the results in a MySQL database every 15 minutes. These results are then dynamically projected as a video; coded in Processing, it rapidly loops through thousands of tweets, ultimately rendering the phrase undefinable, volatile, and ineffable: both everything and nothing at the same time. The installation is imagined to be participatory and performative: soliciting viewers to submit a tweet with the potential for it to appear within the projection. As a digital installation piece, the video functions beyond a creative experience--as both a site and method of data collection. Moving forward, I hope to take the data gathered through the site-specific installation to use in various Natural Language Processing experiments, leveraging algorithms to understand the ways in which people relate to and conceptualize the internet.</p>

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-<h3>Steven Presser</h3>
-<p><a href="https://thawamerica.org/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ThawAmerica" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Steven believes in the power of computing to improve lives and solve problems. He also has seen how computing can be misused to create fear and silence voices. Modern surveillance technology is capable of watching many people with little manpower. This new efficiency can create a chilling effect, where people self-censor for fear they're being spied on. He co-founded Thaw America to fight this effect and to ensure technology does not erode civil liberties.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting</h2>
-<h3>FISCR 16-01: How the Secret Courts Secretly Gave Away Telecommunications Privacy (And How We Can Get it Back)</h3>
-<p>In late 2016, the FISA Court of Review declassified the fourth decision in the 38 years of the court's existence. The case, FISCR 16-01, focused on pen registers, a tool for real-time gathering of telephone metadata. In the case, the Department of Justice argued they should be able to gather phone numbers dialed after the call connects – so-called “Post Cut-Through Dialing Digits” (PCTDD). No other court has ever allowed this, citing concerns about incidental capture of call content. Nonetheless, the court sided with the DoJ. This decision has major implications for telecommunications privacy, including the possibility of pen registers becoming backdoor warrants.</p>
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-<p>Thaw America has been fighting to get the case reexamined. We have cataloged and described the logical, legal and technical flaws in the court's decision. We've even attempted to appeal to the Supreme Court, only to be stopped by an illegal rejection of our filing by the clerk of the court.</p>
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-<p>In this talk, we will cover the technical background, legal arguments, dangers of this decision, current state of the case and what our next efforts will be.</p>

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-<h3>Surya Mattu</h3>
-<img src="Surya_Mattu_256.png" />
-<p><a href="http://suryamattu.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/suryamattu" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
-<p>Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer. He is the data reporter at Gizmodo Media's Special Projects Desk. Previously, he was a contributing researcher at ProPublica where he was working on Machine Bias, a series that aims to highlight how algorithmic systems can be biased and discriminate aginst people. Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism. He was also a fellow at Data &amp; Society where he investigated how our wireless devices leak data and the impact that has on us.</p>
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-<hr />
-<h2>Presenting with <a href="marc-dacosta">Marc DaCosta</a>
-<h3>Making Sense of the Ether: Connecting Radio Frequencies with Public Data</h3>
-<p>The airwaves can be a cacophonous place. Signals from GPS satellites exist alongside bluetooth headsets and the dispatch channels of police stations. The emergence of low-cost Software Defined Radios (SDRs) have made this world more accessible than ever. In this talk we will discuss how to join radio waves with the contextual, public information that helps make sense of them. Not only is it possible to use "Automatic Identification System" broadcasts from container ships to understand exactly what’s inside them, but ADS-B transmissions from aircraft overhead can be cross-referenced with the FAA to understand who owns them and where they’re going. By the end of this talk you will be able to identify the particular broadcast frequency of any McDonald’s drive-through in the country and will learn how to locate suspicious cell phone base stations.</p>
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-<h2>Workshop with <a href="jen-kagan">Jen Kagan</a></h2>
-<h3>Intro to Packet Sniffing with Herbivore</h3>
-<p>This workshop is ideal for those who are interested in learning how to packet sniff or learn what that even means. We will user Herbivore, an open source tool we have been working on that aims to demistify the world of network packets for the uninitiated. A handful of packet sniffing libraries and desktop applications already exist for analyzing network packets, but they were designed for people who have programming experience or a network engineering background; they were not designed as educational tools for people without technical backgrounds. In this workshop we will go through the basics of what packet sniffing means and let you try it out yourself.</p>
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-<h3>Workshop Requirements</h3>
-<p>You will need a Mac to run Herbivore :( . But all is not lost! Even if you dont have a Mac you can still learn a whole bunch. We encourage participants to work together and share computers.</p>
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-<h4>Note: This isn't a 'hacking' workshop.</h4> 
-<p>The focus is to help participants be able to see how their computers talk to other computers on the internet and the different type of negotiations that take place in the process. If you're looking to 'hack the mainframe' this workshop will probably disappoint you.</p>