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@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@
 				NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/brian-hall">Brian Hall</a>, <a href="../speakers/julien-deswaef">Julien Deswaef</a>, <a href="../speakers/dan-grinkevich">Dan Grinkevich</a>
 			</td>
-			<td>
-				Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks</br>
+			<td class="workshop" rowspan="2">
+				Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks Workshop</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/dawn-walker">Dawn Walker</a>
 			</td>
 			<td></td>
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@
 			</td>
 			<td></td>
 			<td></td>
-			<td></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr class="light">
 			<td>12:00 - 13:00</td>
@@ -157,7 +156,7 @@
 			<td></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
-			<td>13:00 - 13:40</td>
+			<td>13:00 - 13:30</td>
 			<td>
 				SDR-101 : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the RF Spectrum</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/surya-mattu">Surya Mattu</a>
@@ -177,9 +176,9 @@
 			<td></td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
-			<td>13:40 - 14:50</td>
+			<td>13:30 - 14:50</td>
 			<td>
-				Blogging in the Dark</br>
+				Blogging in the Dark[net]</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/david-huerta">David Huerta</a> + <a href="../speakers/caroline-sinders">Caroline Sinders</a> + <a href="../speakers/stephanie-hyland">Stephanie Hyland</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
@@ -210,7 +209,7 @@
 			<td>16:00 - 16:40</td>
 			<td>
 				MAC as a Place and Landscape</br>
-				<a href="../speakers/pedro-oliveria">Garry Ing</a>
+				<a href="../speakers/garry-ing">Garry Ing</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
 				Democracy Through Grassroot Local Networks</br>
@@ -300,20 +299,21 @@
 			</td>
 			<td>
 				Invisible Islands</br>
+				Locative New Media: Connecting the physical with the digital</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/sebastien-pierre/">Sébastien Pierre</a>
 			</td>
 			<td></td>
 			<td class="workshop" rowspan="2">
-				I Think ICANN</br>
+				I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG About TLDs</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/surya-mattu/">Surya Mattu</a> + <a href="../speakers/ingrid-burrington/">Ingrid Burrington</a>
 			</td>
-			<td class="workshop" rowspan="2">Erika Kermani + Miki Foster</td>
+			<td class="workshop" rowspan="2">Erica Kermani + Miki Foster</td>
 		</tr>
 		<tr>
 			<td>11:30 - 12:00</td>
 			<td>
 				Trust Yourself More</br>
-				<a href="../speakers/shuli-halluk/">Shuli Halluk</a>
+				<a href="../speakers/shuli-hallak/">Shuli Hallak</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
 				Ownership Incentives &amp; Network Evolution</br>
@@ -340,7 +340,10 @@
 				Bibliotecha Workshop</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/andre-castro/">Andre Castro</a>, <a href="../speakers/lucia-dossin/">Lucia Dossin</a> + <a href="../speakers/michaela-lakova/">Michaela Lakova</a>
 			</td>
-			<td class="workshop" rowspan="6">Commotion Workshop</td>
+			<td class="workshop" rowspan="6">
+				<a href="../speakers/josh-king/">Josh King</a></br>
+				Commotion Workshop
+			</td>
 			<td class="workshop" rowspan="6">
 				Windfarms Workshop</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/nathan-freitas/">Nathan Freitas</a>
@@ -350,10 +353,10 @@
 			<td>14:10 - 14:50</td>
 			<td>
 				Bringing Connectivity to Rural Areas in Bangladesh</br>
-				<a href="../speakers/luffnar-rahman/">Dr. Luffnar Rahman</a>
+				<a href="../speakers/lutfor-rahman/">Dr. Lutfor Rahman</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
-				The Pervasive Rhizome</br>
+				The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition <strong>and</strong></br>
 				Playful Mesh: Site-Specific Game to Visualize Network</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/ansh-patel/">Ansh Patel</a>
 			</td>
@@ -400,7 +403,7 @@
 				<a href="../speakers/jochen-maria-weber/">Jochen Maria Weber</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
-				Be Your Own NSA (till 17:30)<br/>
+				Be your own NSA: Regain IO control. (till 17:30)<br/>
 				<a href="../speakers/yifu-guo/">Yifu Guo</a>
 			</td>
 			<td></td>

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     <h3>Adam Rothstein</h3>
 <img src="Adam-Rothstein-256x256.jpg" />
 <p>Adam Rothstein is an insurgent archivist and artist. He writes about politics, media, art, and technology wherever he can get a signal. He is most interested in the canons of history and prediction, the so-called "Future-Weird", the unstable ramifications of today's cultural technology, and the materials and ideas out of which we build things. His book Drone was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2015. He is on Twitter @interdome.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../rob-ray/">Rob Ray</a></h2>
+<h3>A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club</h3>
+<p>In 2016 a disaster response network of trained radio users sporting an ideal budget of $0 per person was born. While amateur radio existed through most of the 20th Century, by the 21st century it had become a bourgeois hobby for older white men. The established purpose of amateur radio in the regulations of the FCC had always been to set up a voluntary interest in radios for use in emergency (both environmental and military), but with the rise of commercial Internet radio networks (Wi-Fi) and cheap long-haul telecommunications networks, ham radio shacks became a collection of exclusive and fetishized gadgets. Younger people drifted towards the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>But in 2016, emergency came calling. A group of three coastal superstorms flooded most of the West Coast, and left the population without infrastructure for weeks. A small, previously unknown group calling themselves “Solarpunks” sprang up, to fill the communication gap. Using a number of levels of financial commitment--$0, $10, and $40--they began training a culture of youth hungry for the basic skills of radio and electronics, and then letting them train others. They descended upon the rubble to pull out bits of aluminum for antennas, drying out coaxial cable, and rescuing batteries and stereo speakers from stranded vehicles. Using the disabled tech of a failed infrastructure, they began connecting themselves into a network of learning and doing. The old-guard hams had all fled to high grounds weeks ago, but the Solarpunks remained, continued their modifications and grew in numbers.</p>
+
+<p>We will detail the speculative future-history of the Solarpunk Ham Radio Club and its method of spreading the use of radio with no financial investment. It took amateur radio back from a toxic commodity culture, just when it was needed most. The Solarpunks couldn’t  duplicate the permanent infrastructure that needs billions of dollars in funding. But with a foothold based on a resilient jugaad rather than expensive gadgets, they were able to find a way of teaching each other, that made their network resilient in a way that money could not.</p>
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     <h3>Amelia Marzec</h3>
 <img src="687474703a2f2f7777772e616d656c69616d61727a65632e636f6d2f696d616765732f6d61727a65635f3235362e6a7067.jpg" />
 <p>Amelia Marzec has been a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, a Fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University, a Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, and a CUNY-PSC Grantee. She was nominated for the World Technology Awards for Art, and has shown work at MIT and SIGGRAPH.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Signal Strength and the Community Phone Booth</h3>
+<p>What happens when you need to share a vital message with a chosen few? The Signal Strength Project is an alternative network for cell phones to allow people to connect for a variety of reasons: loss of service due to political unrest or disaster relief, or the need to ensure privacy by communicating directly with peers instead of linking up to a centralized network. The project allows citizens to take mobile democracy into their own hands. It consists of hardware that hacks their existing mobile phone in order to circumvent cell phone providers and enable offline, peer to peer communication with other members of their urban community. It instantly connects users who are nearby, who are then able to message each other.</p>
+
+<p>The project explores the role of technology in shaping resistance. It bypasses our current infrastructure to create a new, private network for a close-knit community. It enables citizens by acknowledging our very human need for connection right here at home.</p>
+
+<p>The project can work alongside or independently of other services. The phone booths allow the system to exist in public space, for users who may not have access to the technology otherwise.</p>
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     <h3>Andrew Davis</h3>
 <img src="jh94JcO.jpg" width="50%" />
 <p>Andrew is an open media hacker specializing in writing specs for open web standards. He helped build the first media sharing website for user generated content, helped develop the html5 in-browser media standards, and helped get video editing into Wikipedia.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>MTOS, federated, public key secured, social communications infrastructure</h3>
+<p>MTOS is a system for exchanging public keys and subscribing to and publishing data encrypted for those public keys. Data is encrypted for each user that subscribes to your feed and distributed via bittorrent for asyncronous collection. The talk is a brief overview of the protocol accompanied by a working demo installed for the duration of the conference.</p>
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 <p>Ansh Patel is an interdisciplinary artist whose works range from experimental games to interactive digital media. His work usually marries practice with the conceptual, exploring the processes linking an idea to its implementation. His body of work in games generally comprises of short-form games that serve as critical deconstructions of a conventional aspect of the medium and culture. His digital media projects focuses on embodiment, digital performance, surveillance and how technology mediates our interaction.</p>
 
 <p>He is also a critic whose work has appeared in Paste, Unwinnable and Arcade Review. He occasionally writes academic papers on post-modernist meaning-making processes and post-colonial critiques of first-person shooter games.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition</h3>
+<p>Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari envisioned the "rhizome" as an ideological and semiotic structure which ended up serving in many ways as an underlying inspiration for the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>"The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition" is an interactive application which visualizes the complex interconnectivity of the Internet as well as the myriad ways data gets requested, tracked and siphoned while navigating it. Beginning with a participant choosing a URL as a "starting node", the application automates through different pages recursively scraping links and moving to the first, unique link briefly displaying the page before moving onto the next.</p>
+
+<p>In parallel, on a separate screen, all of these links are being visualized in a large connected network building the wide, interconnected mesh of nodes and links. Each node/web page will have a small visualized graph on its side, showing the number of content requests on it. Over time and through multiple "instantiations" by new participants, this visualized mesh will start building the rhizome of the Internet but also a dense display of how underlying mechanisms of data tracking are pervasive and enormous beneath the innocuous veil of the browser.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>Playful Mesh: Site-Specific Game to Visualize Networks</h3>
+<p>Wireless network and its architecture, to most people, is a pervasive but densely opaque and abstract entity that would be impossible to comprehend on their own.</p>
+
+<p>Play has always been human culture's aspect of simplifying and abstracting aspects about our real world into a temporary engaged experience out of which players emerge with a new-found look at the world around them.</p>
+
+<p>Using similar ideas about play and its potential to bring an awareness about our immediate environment, "Playful Mesh" is a site-specific game that will be installed at MAGNET, the location of the event, that visualizes the free-forming connections of the mesh nodes being formed by the spatial movement of its players.</p>
+
+<p>The game played by upto four players will be controlled directly by the number of active nodes in the mesh, their spatial location allowing them to form bonds with their nearest neighbor to allow them a greater power of expressiveness on the game's abstract painting that's projected onto the screen. As a result of which, players can start forming a direct connection on how their spatial relationship is being reflected in the mesh network, allowing them to understand basic aspects of connectivity albeit in a fun and playful way.</p>
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     <h3>Benedetta Piantella</h3>
 <img src="5ea04b32-3c38-11e5-9555-7498b4156853.jpg" width="300" height="300" />
 <p>Benedetta Piantella is a designer turned humanitarian technologist. She has taught Lego robotics and worked for Arduino in Italy, and Smart Design in NYC, producing interactive prototypes for high-end clients. She has founded engineering R&amp;D companies focused on producing sustainable solutions to humanitarian, social, environmental challenges worldwide. She has built partnerships with organizations such as the UN, UNICEF, The Millennium Villages Project, Universities such as NYU, Columbia and Princeton and multiple NGOs and has designed, prototyped and deployed projects in countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. She recently covered the position of Technology Architect for the Earth Institute and the Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, she is an Open Source advocate and is currently a full-time faculty member at NYU-ITP where she teaches Physical Computing and Engineering for Development.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>GSM For Good</h3>
+<p>Open source cellular networks are happening - this talk will introduce a brief overview of what they are, how they work compared to a regular GSM cellular network and open source resources available to jump start one. Benedetta will also talk about how she got to using them and the class she developed at ITP called Towers of Power. She will also present some of the projects that have resulted from the class and some of the latest things she is working on.</p>
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     <h3>Brian Hall</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f6e79636d6573682e6e65742f6173736574732f696d616765732f6c6f676f2e706e67.png" />
 <p>Brian Hall has worked as a freelance software engineer in NYC for 20 years and he was the senior software engineer at Sales Graphics/CustomShow. He is interested in using technology to create decentralized structures. He has been active in organizing NYC Mesh for over a year.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../julien-deswaef/">Julien Deswaef</a> and <a href="../dan-grinkevich/">Dan Grinkevich</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>
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     <h3>Bruno Kruse</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f7777772e64726f70626f782e636f6d2f732f7a74696b3069386b6531626f346b6e2f6272756e6f2d70726f66696c652d7069632d3235362e706e673f646c3d31.png" />
 <p>Bruno Kruse is an interaction designer and developer. His recent artwork focuses on developing tools to create interactive installations. He utilizes technology to create meaningful experiences and is motivated by an ongoing curiosity of designing with code.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../carrie-kengle/">Carrie Kengle</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: How Was Your Day, an Ambient Network</h3>
+
+<p>"How Was Your Day" is an experimental social network that enables you to communicate via color and light.</p>
+
+<p>Light patterns and color as forms communication has been explored throughout history. Examples include signal lamps, morse code, smoke signals and smartphone notifications. Can we develop our own ambient language using only patterns, light and color?</p>
+
+<p>Together in this workshop we are looking to push the these concepts further with our favorite modern-day web technologies. We will be designing a peer-to-peer communication network using software and hardware tools including Raspberry Pi, MeteorJS, MQTT, LED Strips and breakout boards.</p>
+
+<p>In the first half of the workshop we will learn about basic setup, networking and communication with Raspberry Pi. In the second half we'll build out the hardware component of the project to display our network data via light. Our breakout board kit is designed to be a simple way to connect LED strips to the RaspberryPi GPIO.</p>
+
+<h3>Workshop Agenda</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Setting up the RPi</li>
+<li>Installing our social network templates. NodeJS + MQTT</li>
+<li>Break</li>
+<li>Hardware jam and building</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Prerequisites</h3>
+<p>Basic programming knowledge recommended. (JavaScript)</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring $60 cash to purchase at the workshop, or bring your own:
+<ul>
+<li>Raspberry Pi Model B+</li>
+<li>USB WiFi dongle (802.11b/g/n)</li>
+<li>8GB Card w/ Raspbian Wheezy</li>
+<li>5V 2A MicroUSB power cable</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>We will also provide each attendee with these additional items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Custom hardware</li>
+<li>LED Strip</li>
+<li>5V power supply for the LEDs</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Each participant should have a laptop with a text editor and an SSH client installed.</p>
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     <h3>Caroline Sinders</h3>
 <p>Caroline Sinders is an interaction designer for IBM Watson, artist, researcher and video game designer. She was born in New Orleans and is currently based in Brooklyn. She received her masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where she focused on HCI, prototyping, and interactive storytelling. She holds a bachelor of fine arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Photography and Imaging, where she studied digital culture and large format portraiture. Caroline is a member of the Code Liberation Foundation’s board, as well as a teacher for the foundation. Her current personal work explores UX and UI to stymy harassment and 'designing consent' into system designs and communication design for social networking sites. Her work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Bust Magazine, Animal NY, Narratively, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and other places.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../david-huerta/">David Huerta</a> and <a href="../stephanie-hyland/">Stephanie Hyland</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>
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     <h3>Carrie Kengle</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f7777772e64726f70626f782e636f6d2f732f6937657779696a72687664366667722f636b2d70726f66696c652d7069632d3235362e706e673f646c3d31.png" />
 <p>Carrie Kengle is a New York based developer and designer. She is an active open-source contributor and can be found using the Raspberry Pi to create installations, web and data driven LED works</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../bruno-kruse/">Bruno Kruse</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: How Was Your Day, an Ambient Network</h3>
+
+<p>"How Was Your Day" is an experimental social network that enables you to communicate via color and light.</p>
+
+<p>Light patterns and color as forms communication has been explored throughout history. Examples include signal lamps, morse code, smoke signals and smartphone notifications. Can we develop our own ambient language using only patterns, light and color?</p>
+
+<p>Together in this workshop we are looking to push the these concepts further with our favorite modern-day web technologies. We will be designing a peer-to-peer communication network using software and hardware tools including Raspberry Pi, MeteorJS, MQTT, LED Strips and breakout boards.</p>
+
+<p>In the first half of the workshop we will learn about basic setup, networking and communication with Raspberry Pi. In the second half we'll build out the hardware component of the project to display our network data via light. Our breakout board kit is designed to be a simple way to connect LED strips to the RaspberryPi GPIO.</p>
+
+<h3>Workshop Agenda</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Setting up the RPi</li>
+<li>Installing our social network templates. NodeJS + MQTT</li>
+<li>Break</li>
+<li>Hardware jam and building</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Prerequisites</h3>
+<p>Basic programming knowledge recommended. (JavaScript)</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring $60 cash to purchase at the workshop, or bring your own:
+<ul>
+<li>Raspberry Pi Model B+</li>
+<li>USB WiFi dongle (802.11b/g/n)</li>
+<li>8GB Card w/ Raspbian Wheezy</li>
+<li>5V 2A MicroUSB power cable</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>We will also provide each attendee with these additional items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Custom hardware</li>
+<li>LED Strip</li>
+<li>5V power supply for the LEDs</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Each participant should have a laptop with a text editor and an SSH client installed.</p>
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@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@
     <h3>Chris Fussner</h3>
 <img src="radical-networks_vsoon.jpg" />
 <p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../noah-emrich/">Noah Emrich</a></h2>
+<h3>The Importance of Soft Infrastructure</h3>
+
+<p>We will be discussing the human element in developing alternative communication networks, primarily community mesh networks. Looking at importance of local soft infrastructures in establishing and sustaining networks. Drawing from our 3 month journey, experiences and insights as non technical people diving into mesh networks in NYC and beyond.</p>
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     <h3>Dan Grinkevich</h3>
 <img src="../brian-hall/68747470733a2f2f6e79636d6573682e6e65742f6173736574732f696d616765732f6c6f676f2e706e67.png" />
 <p>Dan Grinkevich has 10 years of experience in the electric utility industry as a Senior Compliance Engineer. He is an Organizer, Firmware Developer and Network Security Expert at NYC Mesh. In his free time he enjoys amateur radio, photography and hardware hacking.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../julien-deswaef/">Julien Deswaef</a> and <a href="../brian-hall/">Brian Hall</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>
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   <div class="col-xs-12">
     <h3>David Huerta</h3>
 <p>David Huerta is a co-organizer for of CryptoParty NYC, a non-organization of teach-in workshops which bring privacy-enhancing technology skills to New Yorkers. In 2009, he created Hayst.ac, a browser plugin which obfuscated Google search histories to make them harder to accurately data-mine. He also created an open-hardware "mixtape" in 2013 which contained an soundtrack that was encrypted, then mailed to the NSA without the key needed to decrypt it.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../caroline-sinders/">Caroline Sinders</a> and <a href="../stephanie-hyland/">Stephanie Hyland</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>
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     <h3>Dawn Walker</h3>
 <img src="5eb61dca-3d52-11e5-9015-b96807fa5bc9.jpg" />
 <p>Dawn Walker is a Masters student in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Her interests include community-led infrastructure development and responses to surveillance. She has coordinated and led workshops on mesh networking, open source software and introductions to various technology. A keen gardener, Dawn has spent time building and volunteering in community gardens and urban agriculture projects.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks</h3>
+<p>Immaterial networks can be hard to make sense of, analyze or critique without tangible artefacts to engage with. I will explore this challenge through a hands on workshop where participants will use a full range of senses and modalities to visualize and map networks. Through individual and group exercises we will experiment with different techniques designed to reveal connections and flows within networks.</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring post-its, paper, pens, markers, and a laptop.</p>
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 <p>De Bel's exploration of interactivity and utility has led him to make humorous design interventions, manifested word puns, useless software and more recently "no-ware". This term describes some of his latest works that are no longer hardware nor software but non-products, unique multiples and mass-produced one-offs that question functionality, inventiveness and innovation.</p>
 
 <p>Currently he is collaborating with <a href="../roel-roscam-abbing">Roel Roscam Abbing</a> on a practical research project on 'Post-Digital Communication in the last days of the web'.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../roel-roscam-abbing/">Roel Roscam Abbing</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Packet Radio Networks</h3>
+<p>Before there was the internet there was a wireless internet. In this (non-FCC approved) workshop we will look back to ALOHANET, AMPRNET and examine the phenomenon of packet radio. The workshop will be a hands-on, interactive demonstration of the possibilities of packet radio and the workflow/toolchain. We will go into both historical and contemporary examples and try to set up a little network on the spot.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will learn how to utilize commercial walkie-talkie radios and free software to transmit and receive TCP/IP over HF or UHF radio. In other words, internet via walkie-talkie, because yes, that's possible. Looking beyond the usual "When Shit Hits The Fan Scenario's" we will discuss the true potential and shortcomings of these 6km+ range wireless 'routers'. Depending on the wishes of the participants we can either do a demo and go through the steps and requirements of setting this up for themselves or help set up participant's own equipment to create one big offline network.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will get a small publication that is both an introduction into the concept as well as a practical guide on how set up your internet over walkie talkie. Each participant will get one copy as a reference etc for when they want to do their own experiments.</p>
+
+<p>No experience is necessary.</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Please bring a laptop, preferably with Linux installed, a USB flash drive ~4GB, and $9 for additional materials prepared by the workshop leaders.</p>
+
+<h3>Extra materials to bring if you would like (but are not required)</h3>
+<ul>
+	<li>UHF walkie talkie's if you already have some available.</li>
+	<li>'Baofeng UV-5r' (in yellow, blue or red)</li>
+	<li>2.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm TNC plug (4 pole)</li>
+	<li>Audiocable (2 pole)</li>
+</ul>
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     <h3>Derek Curry</h3>
 <img src="jen_derek.png" />
 <p>Derek Curry's artistic practice engages questions of agency and knowledge production through a variety of mediums from video games and data analytics, to participatory performance and sculptural data visualizations, and his research focuses on algorithmic modes of control, particularly in the electronic stock exchanges. Curry is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Media Study. He earned his MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../jennifer-gradecki/">Jennifer Gradecki</a></h2>
+<h3>Crowd-Sourcing Social Media Network Surveillance</h3>
+<p>We will discuss the findings from our artistic research project, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)—a web-based application that allows the user to participate in, and discuss the surveillance of social media networks.  Created from documents on intelligence gathering techniques currently in use that have been made available through FOIA requests or leaked to the public, the CSIA app is open to anyone with a Twitter account.  Agents can debate each other’s ratings, and defend their own tweets. The aim of CSIA is to foster a more informed debate on the problems associated with secret, automated, “collect it all” surveillance by opening up the process of intelligence production for all to see.  By giving users first-hand experience with how social media surveillance works, we also hope to provide them with the means to navigate the security apparatus to choose if they want to evade algorithmic capture, jam the system with too much information, or find another mode of engagement. The CSIA not only opens a debate about the effectiveness of surveillance techniques, but it also enables users to reflect on how they want to engage with it.</p>
+
+<p>In our talk, we will demonstrate how our application works and allow the audience to participate on their own computer or mobile device.  We will then present some of our findings from the project, including information about how intelligence agencies operate, some of the limitations and choices we were confronted with while programming the application, and user interactions with the application that we have observed.</p>
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     <h3>Edward Vielmetti</h3>
 <img src="35047.jpg" />
 <p>Edward Vielmetti has been working on the Internet since 1985 from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His background includes work on the early commercialization and privatization of the Internet. Previous conference presentations include "WYSSA means all my love, darling: A social history of the Internet from the carrier pigeon to Antarctic morse code" (UPA 2006) and "Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Cybercommerce" at (ARABANK 1996, Dubai, United Arab Emirates).</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Over the top networks, a history of building new systems on the wreckage of the old</h3>
+<p>New networks are often feed off of old ones, in ways that characteristically draw energy from aspects of those networks that are easy to take over and hard to defend. In this talk, I'll look at the waves of creative destruction that are unleashed when network developers find existing infrastructure that can be exploited for new ends, and the ways that commoditized networks fight back to avoid being turned into dumb pipes.</p>
+
+<p>The talk will look at the history and the future of these overlay or over-the-top networks, going back three decades for stories of networks like Usenet, electronic mail, and payments networks and how they started out parasitizing existing older networks only be overtopped by other interests as file sharing, security, and identity layers of newer networks. I'll look at rules for developers of radical advances in networks and guidelines to avoid the pitfalls of unexpected dependencies and hidden traps.
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 <p>I've been working with technology for about 6 years now. I'm currently pursuing a Masters in Tangible Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on sound design and interfaces for the performance of sound.</p>
 
 <p>Since 2013, I've co-directed the <a href="http://ledhack.org/" target="_blank">Lab for Erroneous Design</a>, Puerto Rico's first hackerspace.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Crowsourced (or not) Public Transportation GPS Tracking</h3>
+<p>I grew up in Puerto Rico, which has currently been in the public eye in America due to it's social/economic shenanigans. Many of it’s public services (namely the Public Transportation System) are crippled, unable to provide adequate service to the population. Some routes have only 1 bus pass every hour or hour and a half, only to have the bus pass you by because it’s filled to the brim.</p>
+
+<p>Even though these buses have actually had a GPS system installed since around 2006, it has only been used by a private company to “prevent theft”.</p>
+
+<p>I’m proposing a system where riders provide the GPS data themselves, for each other. Using a simple phone application (currently Android only), riders can transmit their own GPS data, making the bus location known to other potential riders in real-time, through the corresponding site that loads the data on a map.</p>
+
+<p>Ideally, the Public Transportation System itself could implement this system, as it very cheap to implement and keep running.</p>
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@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@
     <h3>Garry Ing</h3>
 <img src="687474703a2f2f6761727279696e672e636f6d2f696d672f67617272792e706e67.png" />
 <p>Garry Ing is a designer and technologist residing in Toronto. His previous work and collaborations has been with the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at OCAD University, the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab at the University of Toronto, and Normative. He is a graduate of OCAD University, with a background in graphic design.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>MAC as a Place and Landscape</h3>
+<p>A media access control (MAC) address is sometimes encountered as a read-only hexadecimal string, separated by colons or hyphens, and often cited as a method to identify network interfaces in their physical instantiation; a port in which ethernet is stringed into, an adapter grafted to a computer. Though not immediately visible or understandable, their hexadecimal compositions are used in procedural means to block, allow, or trace the behaviour of a networked device and often times an individual. Though much of the attention with MAC addresses are in support of these uses, MAC addresses can also by interpreted as a peculiar landscape of manufactures and geographies.</p>
+
+<p>This talk will look at MAC addresses through a publicly available dataset by the IEEE Registration Authority. The dataset is composed of organizationally unique identifiers (OUI) that is often used in network related software as means to clearly identify manufactures of interfaces. The dataset is a starting point in a series of attempts to make visible the architecture, geographies, and stories behind the manufacturing and distribution of network interfaces.</p>
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@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 	<li>Dan Phiffer</li>
 	<li><a href="joshua-kopstein">Joshua Kopstein</a></li>
 	<li><a href="garry-ing">Garry Ing</a></li>
+	<li><a href="josh-king">Josh King</a></li>
 	<li><a href="surya-mattu">Surya Mattu</a></li>
 	<li><a href="sophie-toupin">Sophie Toupin</a></li>
 	<li><a href="jochen-maria-weber">Jochen Maria Weber</a></li>
@@ -124,8 +125,8 @@
 	<li><a href="joe-chasinga">Joe Chasinga</a></li>
 	<li><a href="paige-peterson">Paige Peterson</a></li>
 	<li><a href="chris-fussner">Chris Fussner</a> and <a href="noah-emrich">Noah Emrich</a></li>
-	<li><a href="luffor-rahman">Prof. Luffor Rahman</a></li>
-	<li><a href="shuli-halluk">Shuli Halluk</a></li>
+	<li><a href="lutfor-rahman">Prof. Lutfor Rahman</a></li>
+	<li><a href="shuli-hallak">Shuli Hallak</a></li>
 	<li><a href="pedro-oliveria">Pedro Oliveria</a></li>
 	<li><a href="derek-curry">Derek Curry</a> and <a href="jennifer-gradecki">Jennifer Gradecki</a></li>
 </ul>

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     <h3>Ingrid Burrington</h3>
 <img src="PiFnY7uZK10EZ6wzTXEqoKcOrbuIlwX0iDb2jRl7iVY.jpg" />
 <p>Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. Her most recent work has focused primarily on infrastructure and magic.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Ghost Networks</h3>
+<p>The zeal with which humans develop and implement new communications networks is matched only by their ability to forget the legacies and mistakes already made building past networks. Ironically, at least in the U.S., most of our communication networks build atop the remnants of those past networks. This talk will offer a series of ghost stories about the politics, personalities, and ideologies that continue to haunt our machines, and how our new networks might live with or at least keep the ghosts at bay.</p>
+
+<h2>... and presenting with <a href="../surya-mattu/">Surya Mattu</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG about TLDs</h3>
+<p>No experience necessary, no extra materials needed.</p>
+<p>Domain names are where the politics, poetics, and peculiarities of the web express themselves in often the most direct and clever ways. But even the most active domain name hoarder might not really understand how the Domain Name System works, why certain TLDs exist, and how they at times become an arena where real-world geopolitical conflicts play out online.</p>
+
+<p>This is a workshop about understanding the technical structures behind the weird and deeply political world of domain names via a live-action roleplaying game. We'll begin with an overview of DNS, ICANN, the TLD creation process, engage in some roleplaying scenarios based on real-world incidents in ICANN history, and brainstorm alternative models to the current model for network naming conventions. Somewhere between Risk, D&amp;D, Model UN, and TRON.</p>
+
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@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@
     <h3>Jennifer Gradecki</h3>
 <img src="../derek-curry/jen_derek.png" />
 <p>Jennifer Gradecki's art and research focuses on the relationship between information and power, and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible. Gradecki is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Visual Studies. She earned her MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../derek-curry/">Derek Curry</a></h2>
+<h3>Crowd-Sourcing Social Media Network Surveillance</h3>
+<p>We will discuss the findings from our artistic research project, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)—a web-based application that allows the user to participate in, and discuss the surveillance of social media networks.  Created from documents on intelligence gathering techniques currently in use that have been made available through FOIA requests or leaked to the public, the CSIA app is open to anyone with a Twitter account.  Agents can debate each other’s ratings, and defend their own tweets. The aim of CSIA is to foster a more informed debate on the problems associated with secret, automated, “collect it all” surveillance by opening up the process of intelligence production for all to see.  By giving users first-hand experience with how social media surveillance works, we also hope to provide them with the means to navigate the security apparatus to choose if they want to evade algorithmic capture, jam the system with too much information, or find another mode of engagement. The CSIA not only opens a debate about the effectiveness of surveillance techniques, but it also enables users to reflect on how they want to engage with it.</p>
+
+<p>In our talk, we will demonstrate how our application works and allow the audience to participate on their own computer or mobile device.  We will then present some of our findings from the project, including information about how intelligence agencies operate, some of the limitations and choices we were confronted with while programming the application, and user interactions with the application that we have observed.</p>
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     <h3>Jesse Tweedle</h3>
 <p>I am an PhD student in economics at the University of Calgary and a research affiliate in CDER at Statistics Canada. I work on social and financial and production networks.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Ownership Incentives and Network Evolution</h3>
+<p>How does a network evolve? A network based on speed has a tendency to become centralized---think of the Internet or the WWW, or the production network of the US, or even airline routes---the optimal ownership structure results in a centralized network. Economics can help us understand the use and ownership incentives that shape the evolution and formation of networks.</p>
+
+<p>I will present real world examples of the interaction between network ownership and performance---think of Facebook's investments in <a href="https://internet.org/" target="_blank">Internet.org</a>, or why and how Turkey frequently <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/22/9013269/turkey-blocks-twitter-suruc-bombing" target="_blank">blocks Twitter</a>. For example, if performance in a network is defined by speed, the network infrastructure tends to come from a small number of sources and can be easily controlled by them or co-opted by government agencies. If those governments are less than democratic, citizens may not have any control over sources of communication. However, if networks require reliability, networks should be decentralized, which reduces incentives for infrastructure investment. Some of the solutions to these problems are technological, some political, but a serious study of the incentives surrounding network infrastructure and ownership is crucial to understanding the potential of networks.</p>
+
+<p>These real world examples tie directly to network research, drawing from statistical random graphs (<a href="http://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.74.47" target="_blank">Albert and Barabasi (2002)</a>), vulnerability of communication networks (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6794/full/406378a0.html" target="_blank">Albert, Jeong and Barabasi (2000)</a>), and financial contagion in economics (<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2553900" target="_blank">Acemoglu et al. (2015)</a>, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2175056" target="_blank">Elliot et al. (2014)</a>). These theories provide useful measures for measuring network structures (Bonacich centrality, concentration centrality, degree sequences, integration and diversification, and more), and how the properties of network integration and diversification interact with performance.</p>
+
+<p>The takeaway from this talk is that economic perspectives are useful for studying networks. You can study the incentives of network use and formation to explain and predict network evolution.</p>
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@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
 		<li><a href="http://jochenmariaweber.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">little tumblr scrap-book</a>: pictures &amp; thoughts from individual stuff.</li>
 	</ul>
 </p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Stupid, Messy Networks</h3>
+<p>"Stupid, Messy Networks" is the result of my MA thesis concerned with actor-network-interactions focusing on probable and improbable alternative networks of public ownership. The talk will first give a quick overview of my work. Then introduce a differentiated definition of network architecture. Further I will lead trough a few economical , political and cultural implications of how idiosyncratic utilized network-architectures, topologies and protocols introduce constrains on immediate interactions with connected objects and software (with references on literature about network theory and philosophy by i.e. B. vanSchewick, G.Bell, C. Vitale, L. DeNardis or L. Lessing and J. Lanier etc.). I´ll argue that, as we strive for ubiquitous interconnection of almost anything, what we should pay attention to is not what we connect; since we are about to connect everything. Important will be HOW we build the connections. It´s less about the nodes at the ends, rather than about the links inbetween, and how they diffuse into everyday life. Following up on my thesis I will represent two to three of my case studies/examples on how this knowledge and insights can be applied for the pro-active design of actor-network-interactions, from a perspective of public interest.</p>
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@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@
     <h3>Joe Chasinga</h3>
 <img src="2445163.jpg" width="256" />
 <p>I'm an interaction designer self-taught in computer programming. I have always been an artist until after college when I found peace in technology and communication. I came from Thailand, a country undergoing political changes and struggling to understand her own ground. My interests are computer network, internet of things, physical computing and writing. I'm also actively developing an open source library for arduino in Python for educational purpose.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Democracy through Grassroot Local Networks</h3>
+<p>I want to outline democracy in general and how people's voice and communication among groups can leverage people's information against draconian and ever-sniffing authorities. Then I want to give some examples, for instance, my home country, Thailand, which is under military dictatorship which is censoring and controlling public media as well as prosecuting artists, academicians, writers and students who voice against it and in a common workplace where employers have the right to sniff everything their employees do on the internet. The enemy of a true democratic community is a network of bureaucratic bodies, from the company one work for all the way to the head of state.</p>
+
+<p>Then, I will talk about an idea of local networks and, like local radios in the heydays, can empower grassroots to form factions, exchange information and communicate with lower risk of getting detected or intercepted by the big brothers. The idea is to deploy a cheap, portable device (i.e. Raspberry Pi or a phone) as a home-grown local server serving a chat application in which a group of members can form an encrypted conversation around it with all the files saved to the device which an appointed leader can carry, backup, delete and destroy at will.</p>
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
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-    <title>Luffor Rahman</title>
+    <title>Josh King</title>
     
     <meta name="author" content="Radical Networks">
 
@@ -87,12 +87,16 @@
             
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   <div class="col-xs-12">
-    <h3>Luffor Rahman</h3>
-<p>I am Lutfor Rahman employed as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Stamford University Bangladesh. I was born in 1949. I obtained M.Sc in Physics in 1969 and another Masters in Applied Physics and Electronics from Rajshahi University. After long gap I obtained PhD from Malyasia. In my long professional career I served as Vice Chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Science and Technology University in Bangladesh, Treasurer, Chairman of CSE department at Stamford University. In industrial field I served at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1980-85, and in Sanyo Electronics co. Japan.</p>
-
-<p>I have several publications on ICT, science and technology. One of the books is En-cyclopidia of Gender and ICT under Chief Editor, Dr. Eileen Truth of Pennsylvania state University.</p>
-
-<p>I have attended at least 30 international Conferences, workshops, seminars as paper presenter, speaker and session chair.</p>
+    <h3>Josh King</h3>
+<img src="me.jpeg" width="256" />
+<p>As the lead developer for the Commotion Wireless Project, Josh King
+draws on his years of experience performing technology work at
+non-profit organizations to develop and implement free and open source
+software to promote freedom of communication, community organizing, and
+social justice. Josh is the Lead Technologist at New America's Open
+Technology Institute, has co-organized the International Summit for
+Community Wireless Networks, and has his roots in the tech development
+and organizing around the Indymedia movement. He lives in Washington, DC.</p>
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     <h3>Joshua Kopstein</h3>
 <img src="5826575.png" />
 <p>Joshua Kopstein is a journalist and researcher focused on the study and circumvention of government and corporate surveillance systems. He has been published in outlets including Al Jazeera, The New Yorker, VICE, Ars Technica, and The Verge. He also authors <a href="http://tinyletter.com/lawfulintercept" target="_blank">Lawful Intercept</a>, a newsletter about surveillance, technology, privacy, and power.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: There Is No Cloud: Dumping Dropbox to Create a Personal
+Anti-Cloud For Cheap</h3>
+<p>From the NSA revelations to hacked celebrity photo scandals, we've been
+given countless reasons to stop trusting centralized data storage
+services such as iCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox. It's now common
+knowledge that by using these services we surrender control of our data
+to profit-driven corporations, leaving it at the mercy of data-mining
+advertisers, government spooks, and malicious hackers. Thanks to arcane
+Terms of Service agreements and automatic opt-in schemes, often this
+private data is being transmitted and stored elsewhere without our
+knowledge or consent.</p>
+
+<p>The fact that we still use these services despite this knowledge isn't a
+surrender: It's simply proof that telling everyone to “stop using the
+cloud” isn't working, and never will. What we need instead is to
+introduce decentralized cloud alternatives that preserve our privacy and
+sovereignty while providing the same usability and convenience – with
+little or no compromise.</p>
+
+<p>In this workshop, participants will learn how to use a $40 Raspberry Pi
+to create a personal “anti-cloud” that safely and seamlessly syncs files
+between all of their devices, using peer-to-peer apps like BitTorrent
+Sync instead of corporate-controlled file lockers. From there, we will
+take this private network to the next level by exploring ArkOS, a more
+ambitious platform designed to keep all of your data “in-house,” where
+it belongs.</p>
+
+<p>This method is far from perfect, and various drawbacks, caveats, and
+alternatives will be noted along the way. But it is a relatively
+painless and elegant solution that can be achieved with almost no
+monetary costs and little technical know-how. More importantly, by
+exploring the possibility space for cloud alternatives, we can help
+bring the decentralized, surveillance-resistant Internet one step closer
+to reality.</p>
+
+<p>Participants must bring their own laptops (PC, Mac, or Linux). Raspberry
+Pis will be provided. Basic familiarity with the command line is
+recommended, but not mandatory. This workshop is recommended for
+beginners with little/no knowledge of computer networking as well as
+more advanced users hoping to learn about cloud file storage alternatives.</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<a href="http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Complete-Original-Preloaded/dp/B008XVAVAW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1443054384&sr=8-3&keywords=raspberry+pi+starter+kit" target="_blank">Recommended kit</a> for hands-on part of workshop ($70)
+
+<p>Note: You can still attend the workshop if you are unable to obtain the needed materials. You won't be able to fully participate in the hands-on session, but there will also be a lecture component regarding P2P clouds. Please be sure to at least bring a laptop running Mac, Linux or Windows.</p>
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     <h3>Julien Deswaef</h3>
 <img src="../brian-hall/68747470733a2f2f6e79636d6573682e6e65742f6173736574732f696d616765732f6c6f676f2e706e67.png" />
 <p>Julien Deswaef is a designer and versatile artist. 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, Julien relevantly provides the connection between the visual arts, the world of contemporary images and the most advanced aspects in digital research. He was also a member of "Reseau Citoyen", the community owned mesh network of Brussels, Belgium.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../dan-grinkevich/">Dan Grinkevich</a> and <a href="../brian-hall/">Brian Hall</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>
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     <h3>Keith Whyte</h3>
 <p>Keith Whyte is a musician and intensive computer and network user who has been working with the comunications needs of social organisations since 1991 when he ran a dial-up BBS and FidoNet node.
 In 2011, after initial discussions about community cellular with Rhizomatica founder Peter Bloom, he setup initial trial GSM installations at the Contemporary Art Archipelago in Turku, Finland and The Global Contemporary at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>On being the alternative in the absence of alternatives</h3>
+<p>This talk will begin with a short description of the Rhizomatica Community Cellular Network installations, a run down on the technology used, and a brief update on recent changes and advances for those who have been following the project.
+We'll take a look at some of the problems encountered; remote networks in difficult to access places, users expectations - providing 'carrier grade' service on self owned networks while those networks still depend on connections to upstream non free (internet) networks.</p>
+
+<p>This will be followed by a thought and hopefully discussion provoking look at introducing new technology into a community.</p>
+
+<p>Since the discovery of radio, a marvellous tool for empowerment, mass media through radio, television and cinema has been consistently used as a means for cultural imposition and control. For many today, it may seem strange and far off to imagine a world without even a simple landline, yet like so much technology, even the simple landline changes aspects of community life. Todays corporate internet, (essentially an extension of telephony) would appear to be going the same direction, as new users are sought out based on how their potential activity on the network can be monetized.
+From the perspective of bringing an alternative network to where there is still space to dream how that network might be, What can be done about these issues, or is it already too late? Are there ethical questions to be asked about connecting the whole world to a corporate network, and if there are, then who asks them and more importantly, who gives the answers?</p>
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+    <h2>October 24-25, 2015<br/>NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY</h2>
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+    <h3>Lutfor Rahman</h3>
+<p>I am Lutfor Rahman employed as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Stamford University Bangladesh. I was born in 1949. I obtained M.Sc in Physics in 1969 and another Masters in Applied Physics and Electronics from Rajshahi University. After long gap I obtained PhD from Malyasia. In my long professional career I served as Vice Chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Science and Technology University in Bangladesh, Treasurer, Chairman of CSE department at Stamford University. In industrial field I served at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1980-85, and in Sanyo Electronics co. Japan.</p>
+
+<p>I have several publications on ICT, science and technology. One of the books is En-cyclopidia of Gender and ICT under Chief Editor, Dr. Eileen Truth of Pennsylvania state University.</p>
+
+<p>I have attended at least 30 international Conferences, workshops, seminars as paper presenter, speaker and session chair.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Bringing connectivity to rural areas in Bangladesh</h3>
+<p>Women in Bangladesh in 90s were disadvantaged particularly in science and technology fields. Their scientific knowledge and talents were poorly recognized in the community and their work places. The scientific activities were considered males jobs. An initiative was taken in 1996 to empower the Woman Scientists, Technologists and Researchers of Bangladesh with Information Technology using computers under the banner of the Association for Advancement of Information Technology (AAIT). Senior scientists, technologists and researchers were contacted for training on new technology (IT) which was unknown to most of the participants with the back ground of PhD. They were trained through several workshops organizing in universities at different cities. The Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) joined the IT program with technology and finance. Lots of barriers we had to face in organizing the workshops. There were social, local, gender and other problems. Different strategies were adopted to make the programs a success which I would like to share in the event. The program concept were spreading day by day by the women scientists who were trained by the AAIT experts. An excellent network of women scientists, technologists, researchers, science girl-students of all levels including the remote girls of Bangladesh and abroad have been developed through this initiative.</p>
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     <h3>Nathan Freitas</h3>
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 <p>Nathan Freitas leads the Guardian Project, an open-source mobile security software project, and directs technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Wind Farm: People-Powered Nearby Networks</h3>
+<p>Wind is a metaphor for the untapped communication potential that is all around us. In nature, wind can manifest as a slight breeze, or a powerful gale. It can gently spread the seeds of life, or a become a fearful gale that moves the sea. Wind can carry a message for miles, even around the world. Wind can be harnessed and turned into energy, and it is that energy which inspires possibilities. In our vision of a future of network communication, Wind is a way to describe the ability to connect and share digitally, that is not the Internet, and not the Web, but some place new, one that is right in the air around us.</p>
+
+<p>The Wind Farm workshop is an opportunity to facilitate a basic vision and metaphor for many groups to all work within. It is a starting point, not a standard, an intervention to create a dialogue, shared terminology and a shared narrative of how, who, and what we expect people to do when they have a super-computer in their pocket, but no signal to communicate by.</p>
+
+<p>In the workshop, we will work to find common ground between our various efforts in non-Internet, nearby, and "mesh" communication systems. We will hear from everyday people, activists, aid workers, and others who have direct experience being and working in places where all traditional communications are not available. We will have the chance to share with each other our coolest, cutting edge demos and/or our actually shipping, production ready products. Finally, we will expand our theoretical discussions from into hands-on, "live action" game situations, where we can see how different apps, tools, prototypes, and services fare when put in context of real situations.</p>
+
+<p>This Wind Farm event builds on an "Internet Blackout Simulation Event" held in 2014 in New York at Eyebeam, and Wind Farm 0 held at Harvard in May 2015.</p>
+<p>More information:<br/>
+<ul>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://medium.com/@n8fr8/if-there-was-suddenly-no-internet-what-would-we-do-9bf9a00e07cc" target="_blank">If there was suddenly no Internet, what would we do?</a>
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+	<li>
+		<a href="http://eyebeam.org/events/eyebeam-square-an-internet-blackout-simulation-event" target="_blank">Eyebeam Square: An Internet Blackout Simulation Event</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/10/5794406/what-do-you-do-when-the-internet-turns-off" target="_blank">Your survival guide for an internet blackout</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://talk.developersquare.net/t/wind-farm-0-people-powered-nearby-networks-event-harvard-may-15-16/48" target="_blank">Wind Farm 0: People-Powered Nearby Networks Event @ Harvard, May 15-16</a>
+	</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring your own tablet or smartphone</p>
+
+<p>If you want to bring your own PirateBox to the workshop, and you don't already have one, you can find out <a href="http://piratebox.cc/openwrt:diy" target="_blank">how to build one</a> here ahead of time.</p>
+
+<p>This step is not necessary! Just a fun extra if you felt like it.</p>
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     <h3>Nick Briz</h3>
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 <p>hi, my name is nick briz && 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 ( GLI.TC/H, NO-MEDIA, etc ) && teach on these topix ( SAIC, Marwen, www ) && produce work on these topix ( independently && commercially w/Branger_Briz ). my work's been shown internationally ( FILE Media Arts Festival, the Images Festival, the Museum of Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. ) && i've been featured in on/off-line publications around the world ( VICE, Rhizome.org, Fast Company, El Mundo, Neural, etc. ). my work is distributed through Video Out Distribution as well as openly and freely on the web.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Probe Kit</h3>
+<p>Probe Kit is a satirical “amateur data collection” kit, which makes the process of collecting and contextualizing the wireless network data of the people around you trivially easy. Probe Kit is critical software art developed to illustrate how simple it is to collect personal network data and how much can be inferred from that data. Sarcastically pitched as an “amateur data collector kit”, Probe Kit turns your wifi card into a “net” that catches data fluttering out of the wireless devices of the people around you.</p>
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     <p>Noah Emrich</p>
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 <p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../chris-fussner/">Chris Fussner</a></h2>
+<h3>The Importance of Soft Infrastructure</h3>
+
+<p>We will be discussing the human element in developing alternative communication networks, primarily community mesh networks. Looking at importance of local soft infrastructures in establishing and sustaining networks. Drawing from our 3 month journey, experiences and insights as non technical people diving into mesh networks in NYC and beyond.</p>
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     <p>Oliver Fisher</p>
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+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Decentralized Peer To Peer Social Networks</h3>
+<p>I'd like to present a decentralized peer to peer social network I have been working on. I'll first talk about the two underlying open source projects: cjdns and ipfs. Specifically the flaws in the current internet these projects seek to address and their proposed solutions. Then I will give a live demo of my project to show what is possible with these next generation protocols. If time permits I can talk about NYC Mesh and our group effort to build a wireless mesh network in the city.</p>
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     <h3>Paige Peterson</h3>
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 <p>While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Security &amp; Privacy in Mesh Networks</h3>
+<p>This will be a presentation on various security and privacy considerations in mesh networks and community networks on a high level. It will touch on current lack of anonymity and security of users and data within community networks, the resulting potential for censorship and current efforts to provide solutions.</p>
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 <p>Pedro G. C. Oliveira is a Brazilian Art Director and Interactive Designer based in New York City, currently a research resident at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in NYU. His work history combines experiences in visual-effects, graphic design and motion graphics, interfaces and applications, interactive installations and code-generated art pieces.</p>
 
 <p>It is his strong belief, that creative solutions should be merged with technological resources and information not only in the name of innovation, but also to stimulate human potential and to improve human relations.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Appropriating Technologies for Protests of the Future</h3>
+<p>The number of technologies used by authorities during protests are growing year after year.</p>
+
+<p>Mass surveillance has become ubiquitous, personal devices are being used as weapons against their owners, the hyper-militarization of law enforcement is widespread and the use of long range acoustic devices, active denial systems and stingrays have become commonplace as governments attempt to suppress dissent and monitor their citizens.</p>
+
+<p>How can the global community retain the right to free speech and public assembly in a safe and effective manner? How can we level the technological playing field for activists and the general population?</p>
+
+<p>Backslash is a series of functional devices designed for protests and riots of the future. Created through the lens of critical design, Backslash aims to retain the right to connect in protest sites through disruptive innovation and the creative appropriation of existing technologies. The range of devices include a smart bandana for embedding hidden messages and public keys, independently networked wearable devices, personal blackbox devices to register abuse of law enforcement and fast deployment routers for off grid communication.</p>
+
+<p>Political, social and technological conditions vary immensely from country to country. Not every protest is like Hong Kong where the average protester has 3 personal devices connected to the internet. A one size fits all solution to these dynamic situations is impractical. This really highlights the significance of community driven design and the importance of inciting this discourse with the global tech community. We recognize that creative and transdisciplinary approach at local hackerspaces and fab labs are uniquely capable of engineering innovative solutions that best fit the needs of their immediate community.</p>
+
+<p>–In protests of the future, how will the underground fight back?</p>
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 <p>I'm the leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association, a group that showcases individuals working across art, hacktivism and technology <a href="http://www.data.ie" target="_blank">www.data.ie</a>. I organise the openhere festival on the social, political and technical issues surrounding the digital commons. 2012 focused on disruptive telecommunications; 2014 on open source hardware, open source ecology and open source value <a href="http://www.openhere.data.ie" target="_blank">www.openhere.data.ie</a>. I am also a core member of the P2P Foundation where I contribute to research in alternative currencies and coordinate the P2P academic research network.</p>
 
 <p>I speak, write and organise workshops around topics such as the political economy of communications, the digital commons, disruptive telecommunications, open spectrum and more recently money, distributed infrastructures and the blockchain. Here’s a project I coordinated to make a fully open mobile network in Dublin City <a href="http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500" target="_blank">http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500</a>. As well as academic publications, I am a regular contributor to Neural a magazine of media art, hacktivism and critical internet cultures <a href="http://neural.it" target="_blank">http://neural.it</a> and the Commons Transition blog <a href="http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/</a> Some of my recent talks and publications are here <a href="https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer" target="_blank">https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer</a>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>This band is your band, this band is my band...</h3>
+<p>This talk is about understanding spectrum as a commons and exploring what recent proposals for shared spectrum really mean for the future of open networks. The talk will be structured around the following questions:</p>
+
+<ol>
+	<li>What exactly is Electromagnetic Spectrum and how is currently managed? How, historically, did electromagnetic wavelengths something that could be owned, controlled and commodified? Who owns the spectrum and what privileges does ownership give in terms of controlling communications and extracting value? I’ll look at examples here i.e. how ownership of spectrum underpins a mobile advertising revenue model in the Global North, while in developing markets we’re seeing a whole range of new business models around control of the spectrum such as airtime trading and mobile money.</li>
+	<li>How can we think of spectrum as a commons? (And why should we?)<br/>
+What is a commons? How have innovations in Wi-Fi, VoIP, mesh networking and open GSM networks illustrated the possibility for governing the spectrum as a commons? What kinds of technologies in cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access facilitate this approach?</li>
+	<li>How is the management of spectrum changing?<br/> 
+Today an exaflood of mobile data is threatening the current economic consolidation of spectrum. These are leading to proposals for dynamic spectrum access techniques and greater spectrum sharing not only from open spectrum advocates but from digital policy.</li>
+	<li>What are the implications of these changes for the spectrum commons? For open spectrum advocates this can look very promising, Where Wi-Fi afforded community networks, an increase in unlicensed spectrum and DySpan suggests possibilities for new kinds of networks and commons spectrum. However, just as the sharing economy is proving problematic in areas such as real estate and precarious work, we need to look closely at the implications of these sharing proposals, particularly at the new kinds of algorithmic control that accompany shared spectrum.</li>
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     <h3>Rob Ray</h3>
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 <p>Rob Ray creates feral installations, chapbooks, videos and sound compositions for public and outdoor spaces. His interactive disorienteering guide, GET LOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK and exhibited at Conflux 2012 in New York and the Tracing Mobility festival in Berlin, Germany. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founding curator of the DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL, USA. Rob performs as AUGH! in the streets and as I Love Presets with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom.  Rob has launched the EXOSKELETON project in Los Angeles this year. He is on Twitter <a href="https://www.twitter.com/robdeadtech" target="_blank">@robdeadtech</a></p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../adam-rothstein/">Adam Rothstein</a></h2>
+<h3>A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club</h3>
+<p>In 2016 a disaster response network of trained radio users sporting an ideal budget of $0 per person was born. While amateur radio existed through most of the 20th Century, by the 21st century it had become a bourgeois hobby for older white men. The established purpose of amateur radio in the regulations of the FCC had always been to set up a voluntary interest in radios for use in emergency (both environmental and military), but with the rise of commercial Internet radio networks (Wi-Fi) and cheap long-haul telecommunications networks, ham radio shacks became a collection of exclusive and fetishized gadgets. Younger people drifted towards the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>But in 2016, emergency came calling. A group of three coastal superstorms flooded most of the West Coast, and left the population without infrastructure for weeks. A small, previously unknown group calling themselves “Solarpunks” sprang up, to fill the communication gap. Using a number of levels of financial commitment--$0, $10, and $40--they began training a culture of youth hungry for the basic skills of radio and electronics, and then letting them train others. They descended upon the rubble to pull out bits of aluminum for antennas, drying out coaxial cable, and rescuing batteries and stereo speakers from stranded vehicles. Using the disabled tech of a failed infrastructure, they began connecting themselves into a network of learning and doing. The old-guard hams had all fled to high grounds weeks ago, but the Solarpunks remained, continued their modifications and grew in numbers.</p>
+
+<p>We will detail the speculative future-history of the Solarpunk Ham Radio Club and its method of spreading the use of radio with no financial investment. It took amateur radio back from a toxic commodity culture, just when it was needed most. The Solarpunks couldn’t  duplicate the permanent infrastructure that needs billions of dollars in funding. But with a foothold based on a resilient jugaad rather than expensive gadgets, they were able to find a way of teaching each other, that made their network resilient in a way that money could not.</p>
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     <h3>Roel Roscam Abbing</h3>
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 <p>Roel Roscam Abbing (1990, NL) is an artist and researcher with strong interest for the issues and cultures surrounding networked computation. In his practice he has worked and collaborated on projects about the internet's infrastructure, DIY techniques and wireless community networks. He holds an MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Fine Arts BA (Hon) from the Willem De Kooning Academy. Currently he teaches Digital Craft at the Willem de Kooning Academy.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../dennis-de-bel/">Dennis de Bel</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Packet Radio Networks</h3>
+<p>Before there was the internet there was a wireless internet. In this (non-FCC approved) workshop we will look back to ALOHANET, AMPRNET and examine the phenomenon of packet radio. The workshop will be a hands-on, interactive demonstration of the possibilities of packet radio and the workflow/toolchain. We will go into both historical and contemporary examples and try to set up a little network on the spot.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will learn how to utilize commercial walkie-talkie radios and free software to transmit and receive TCP/IP over HF or UHF radio. In other words, internet via walkie-talkie, because yes, that's possible. Looking beyond the usual "When Shit Hits The Fan Scenario's" we will discuss the true potential and shortcomings of these 6km+ range wireless 'routers'. Depending on the wishes of the participants we can either do a demo and go through the steps and requirements of setting this up for themselves or help set up participant's own equipment to create one big offline network.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will get a small publication that is both an introduction into the concept as well as a practical guide on how set up your internet over walkie talkie. Each participant will get one copy as a reference etc for when they want to do their own experiments.</p>
+
+<p>No experience is necessary.</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Please bring a laptop, preferably with Linux installed, a USB flash drive ~4GB, and $9 for additional materials prepared by the workshop leaders.</p>
+
+<h3>Extra materials to bring if you would like (but are not required)</h3>
+<ul>
+	<li>UHF walkie talkie's if you already have some available.</li>
+	<li>'Baofeng UV-5r' (in yellow, blue or red)</li>
+	<li>2.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm TNC plug (4 pole)</li>
+	<li>Audiocable (2 pole)</li>
+</ul>
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@@ -95,6 +95,22 @@
 <p>She is co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation, a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow and an Associate at CoLAB. Sarah sits on the advisory board for Tech For Good Global and co-facilitates the Personal Data and Trust Design Group at the Digital Catapult in London.</p>
 
 <p>Sarah has worked with a number of organisations on technology and digital design including NHS England and Government Digital Service, as well as for a variety of prestigious brands such as Dior and Apple. She regularly speaks at conferences and technology events on the future of the Internet, digital citizenship and how decentralised technologies can inform alternative products and services.</p>
+
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Alternet</h3>
+<p>I will give insight in to how a decentralised approach could radically
+reshape the governance and control of the digital infrastructures we
+use everyday: How can decentralised technologies provide a unique way
+of building scalable, trusted networks and systems that can, where
+appropriate, be owned by everyone? What if these technologies
+contributed to a <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=PM&subtype=XB&htmlfid=GBE03620USEN" target="_blank">democratic Internet of Things</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/05/digital-public-space-britain-missing-national-institution" target="_blank">a digital commons</a> and <a href="http://www.sarahtgold.co.uk/a-brief-future-of-citizenship" target="_blank">new forms of citizenship</a>? What are the opportunities for disruption? I will talk about the opportunities presented by decentralised technologies, particularly how they can inform more democratic futures (not only mesh networks, but blockchain and hardware like the Tesla powerwall) and what new politics these systems might bring.</p>
+
+<p>A year ago I designed the Alternet, a proposal for a civic network
+where individuals can own their own data through data licences. The
+work I continue to develop, builds on this project - critically
+engaging with how technically and culturally we can make social impact for a future where we are considered as citizens, not just consumers. </p>
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@@ -90,6 +90,17 @@
     <h3>Sébastien Pierre</h3>
 <img src="687474703a2f2f73656261737469656e7069657272652e63612f66696c65732f73656261737469656e5f7069657272652d323031302d323536783235362e706e67.png" />
 <p>Originally from France, I trained in both software engineering and design before moving to Canada 9 years ago. My interests span activism, politics, museography, information design, open data and technology. I have been publishing and contributing to open-source since 1999, and I believe above all else in in participation, free sharing of information, and the power of communities. I co-founded the local open data movement in Montréal and information design studio, FFunction, which is now in its seventh year. More recently, I started exploring how offline networks can change our understanding of information sharing, and how it can be applied to locative art and new media. I live and work in Montréal.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Locative new media: connecting the physical with the digital</h3>
+<p><a href="http://invisibleislands.org/" target="_blank">Invisible Islands</a> is a locative new media project that poses a simple question: "what happens when information is anchored in the physical space?" Using offline networks powered by Raspberry PIs and open-source software, the Islands create a digital overlay that is only accessible at a specific location. Because they are disconnected from the Internet, the Islands create a surveillance-free data space for the community to exchange and interact on a social and creative level.</p>
+
+<p>Invisible Islands was developed and deployed for the first time in 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark. The project was hosted by the Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction at Aarhus University and spread throughout the city in various urban sites, allowing for an initial exploration of offline networks deployment in urban space.</p>
+
+<p>In the Montréal iteration of Invisible Islands in 2015, which was supported by the National Film Board, I worked with Canadian writer Daniel Canty to create a site-specific narrative where fragments of a story are woven throughout several points of the city's Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal's cultural center and former red-light district.</p>
+
+<p>Many questions and challenges pop up when deploying digital devices in the urban space, from the legal grey-area to citizen engagement and how projects of this nature fit into contemporary discourse about locative art, site-specificity, activism, spatial annotation, place-based storytelling and mobile gameplay. In this talk, I'll share thoughts about my journey through offline networks, both from a technological, creative and societal standpoint.</p>
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-    <title>Shuli Halluk</title>
+    <title>Shuli Hallak</title>
     
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
             
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-    <h3>Shuli Halluk</h3>
+    <h3>Shuli Hallak</h3>
 <img src="Shuli256.jpg" />
 <p>Shuli Hallak is an award winning professional photographer with 10 years of experience documenting core infrastructure. In 2013, she founded Invisible Networks with the mission of making the Internet visible. Currently, she is developing web-based, data driven interactive visuals that help translate technical information into an easily understandable experience.</p>
 
@@ -105,6 +105,15 @@
 <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/29-shuli-hallak-visualizing/id977155003?i=349459504&mt=2">Visualizing The Internet</a></p>
 
 <p>Shuli has a B.A. in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.F.A in Photography from The School of Visual Arts in NYC.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Trust Yourself More</h3>
+<p>The power of the Internet is derived from its intangible, invisible properties. The ability of information to scale and traverse in an instant is transformative, and the application of that power can be used in multiple ways, some good and some not so good. Because we can not see these systems that we rely on — the hardware (routers, switches, data centers, fiber cables), and invisible properties (spectrum, wireless networks, protocol) — we are as a whole, left in the dark and unaware of how our own data exists in these networks. We often take a breath and hope the entities that we are “agreeing” with (“trusting”) will do good.  And we are presented with less than desirable options: convenience or privacy, but we can’t have both. Really though, if we can’t see it, we can’t fully trust it.</p>
+
+<p>But what if we could see how the Internet works? What if we could see both the physical and intangible?I’ll show and discuss the physical infrastructure of the Internet, which I’ve been photographing for several years — parts that are normally completely off limits to the public — and explain with visuals how some of the intangible properties work.</p>
+
+<p>If we can see the Internet as a whole, we can build visual concepts and language around it, and we can understand where to place our trust. We can understand where and how common infrastructure breaches happen, such as Prism. We can begin to understand how our data is used as a commodity. And we can understand that sometimes, trusting ourselves is worth more than convenience.</p>
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@@ -94,6 +94,43 @@ Montreal, Canada. Her work explores the linkages between technology and
 activism through ethnographic studies and projects. She co-founded a
 feminist mobile hacklab in Montreal: Femhack and is involved in creating
 a feminist server managed by a feminist tech collective.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Anti-Colonial Hacking: The Case Study of An Autonomous Encrypted
+Communication Network Developed During the Struggle Against Apartheid in
+South Africa</h3>
+<p>In the 1980s, freedom fighters and hackers from South Africa built an
+autonomous encrypted communication network that allowed activists
+infiltrated on the ground in South Africa to communicate with the senior
+leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) based in Lusaka,
+Zambia via London. The encrypted communication network was set up as
+part of Operation Vula to attempt to launch a people's war and
+ultimately liberate a people's from apartheid. The ingenuousness of the
+encrypted communication system is such that it used an assemblage of
+technologies including computers, algorithms, tape recorders, acoustic
+modem couplers, the international telephone system, among others to
+adapt to the difficult context and condition on the ground whether it
+was the ubiquitous surveillance by the police state, the lack of
+infrastructure or the lack of electricity. This hidden chapter of
+history sheds light on one of the most exciting, but untold story of
+what I call anti-colonial hacking.</p>
+
+<p>This story is significant for multiple reasons. By shedding light to
+this hidden history, my presentation will help enlarge the goals,
+aspirations and political nature of the assemblage of transnational
+technological and communication networks. It will also allow to give
+credit to a continent of the world, Africa that is often eclipsed from
+the limelight of technological "innovation" and hackerdom. Moreover, it
+will create solidarities between movements with different situated
+knowledge, positionalities and contexts without suppressing the
+significant and important history of each of them. The desire to craft
+an autonomous and non-commercial encrypted infrastructure to bring about
+liberation to a people is reminiscent of the work of today's tech
+activists. This history fits in the history of tech activism and should
+be recognized as such to open up the possibilities of thinking about the
+use of crypto and the assemblage of variant forms of technologies for
+liberation struggles.</p>
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     <h3>Stephanie Hyland</h3>
 <p>Stephanie Hyland is a PhD candidate at Cornell University where she is applying machine learning to biomedical data. Originally from Ireland, she studied theoretical physics at Trinity College Dublin and mathematics at Cambridge University. Her interest in information freedom and personal privacy led her to co-found Ireland's first student-run Pirate Party in 2010, which runs one of Ireland's only Tor exits. She current resides in Manhattan, where she is now involved with CryptoParty NYC.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../caroline-sinders/">Caroline Sinders</a> and <a href="../david-huerta/">David Huerta</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>
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     <h3>Surya Mattu</h3>
 <img src="Surya_Mattu_256.png" />
 <p>Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer critical of the public perception and access to wireless spectrums. He is a 2015 Data and Society fellow where his research is focused on the technology and politics surrounding the radio frequency spectrum</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>SDR-101 : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the RF Spectrum</h3>
+<p>Radio waves have been harnessed for communication for over a century. Until a few years ago the high cost of entry to this field limited the avenues of non-commercial exploration and research. As the price of software defined radios (SDRs) has decreased the quantity (and quality) of open source software and tools that support this hardware has increased tremendously.</p>
+
+<p>Using these devices it is possible to explore communication networks that were previously off limits. These include air traffic control, weather satellites, GSM, and many more! This talk hopes to make SDRs exciting for the uninitiated with an explanation of what they are, how they work, and how they can be used for creative purposes . We will use the FCC allocated radio spectrum as our playground and explore the waves!</p>
+
+<h2>... and presenting with <a href="../ingrid-burrington/">Ingrid Burrington</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG about TLDs</h3>
+<p>No experience necessary, no extra materials needed.</p>
+<p>Domain names are where the politics, poetics, and peculiarities of the web express themselves in often the most direct and clever ways. But even the most active domain name hoarder might not really understand how the Domain Name System works, why certain TLDs exist, and how they at times become an arena where real-world geopolitical conflicts play out online.</p>
+
+<p>This is a workshop about understanding the technical structures behind the weird and deeply political world of domain names via a live-action roleplaying game. We'll begin with an overview of DNS, ICANN, the TLD creation process, engage in some roleplaying scenarios based on real-world incidents in ICANN history, and brainstorm alternative models to the current model for network naming conventions. Somewhere between Risk, D&amp;D, Model UN, and TRON.</p>
+
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@@ -90,6 +90,16 @@
     <h3>Tega Brain</h3>
 <img src="TegaBrain-headshot-copy.jpg" />
 <p>Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer working at intersection of art, engineering and ecology. She makes eccentric engineering, reimagining quotidian technologies to address their politics. Her work takes the form of site specific interventions, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information representations. She is currently a resident at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, she also does things at the School for Poetic Computation, and is full-time faculty at SUNY Purchase. In 2013, was awarded an early career fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Eccentric WiFi: Networks with others</h3>
+<p><em>Media are not only devices of information; they are also agencies of order.<br/>
+John Durham Peters, 2015</em></p>
+
+<p>Technologies are dynamic agents that coproduce our environments and social structures through material, psychological and (more recently) algorithmic interactions. Inevitably they embody the agendas and priorities of their makers. Yet if we are to adequately address urgent contemporary challenges like environmental destabilization and global inequality, both of which are tightly bound to trajectories of technological development, it is imperative that we re-think our technical systems and infrastructures to address the agendas of those currently outside of their scope of operation. I call work that responds to this challenge – eccentric engineering. Eccentric engineering sees experimental systems built with atypical design agendas and that restructure connections between humans and non-humans fostering mutual relationships. It approaches infrastructure not as a service but as a negotiation and attempts to privilege empathy over efficiency, co-dependence over independence and intimacy over autonomy.</p>
+
+<p>The Radiotropism project applies an eccentric design approach to network technologies. As our lives become increasingly networked, we have developed a profound sensitivity to wireless topographies. We are radiotropic – we carefully prepare for the quiet zone of the subway and adjust our behaviors in response to subtle fluctuations in wireless signal strengths. The Radiotropism project probes this sensitivity, leveraging it in different ways. The project consists of a series of experimental WiFi routers that attempt to tie their user's network experience to natural phenomena in novel ways. This project explores the potential of creative work to intervene not only at an informational level, but at the level of infrastructure itself.</p>
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     <h3>Yifu Guo</h3>
 <p>I had the chance to work with OWS Tech Ops in Zuccotti park to set up the local internet infrastructure. spends most of my days now doing data analysis for financial institutions and network monitoring for p2p networks.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Be your own NSA: Regain IO control</h3>
+<img src="687474703a2f2f6e616461762e6d656469612e6d69742e6564752f75706c6f6164732f50726f6a656374732f736f63616e5f6e6574776f726b5f737461636b5f3630395f3438302e706e67.jpg" width="50%" />
+<p>This is what the internet infrastructure looks like today, and for most of us, our interactions with the stack never falls below the Application layer.</p>
+
+<p>I want to bring light to the questions like,<br/>
+What is chrome doing when you are visiting a website?<br/>
+What is skype doing on your computer when you make a call?</p>
+
+<p>Show off some new equipment in network DIY, e.g. self contained battery powered openWRT routers.</p>
+
+<p>The goal is to educate and show people how to be their own gate keepers of their network, by man-in-the-middle attacking themselves to see their own network traffic and grant control of what type of data you should and should not allow.</p>
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 		<tr>
 			<td>13:30 - 14:50</td>
 			<td>
-				Blogging in the Dark</br>
+				Blogging in the Dark[net]</br>
 				<a href="../speakers/david-huerta">David Huerta</a> + <a href="../speakers/caroline-sinders">Caroline Sinders</a> + <a href="../speakers/stephanie-hyland">Stephanie Hyland</a>
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 			<td>16:00 - 16:40</td>
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 				MAC as a Place and Landscape</br>
-				<a href="../speakers/pedro-oliveria">Garry Ing</a>
+				<a href="../speakers/garry-ing">Garry Ing</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
 				Democracy Through Grassroot Local Networks</br>
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 			<td>14:10 - 14:50</td>
 			<td>
 				Bringing Connectivity to Rural Areas in Bangladesh</br>
-				<a href="../speakers/luffnar-rahman/">Dr. Luffnar Rahman</a>
+				<a href="../speakers/lutfor-rahman/">Dr. Lutfor Rahman</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
 				The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition <strong>and</strong></br>
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ group: navigation
 				<a href="../speakers/jochen-maria-weber/">Jochen Maria Weber</a>
 			</td>
 			<td>
-				Be Your Own NSA (till 17:30)<br/>
+				Be your own NSA: Regain IO control. (till 17:30)<br/>
 				<a href="../speakers/yifu-guo/">Yifu Guo</a>
 			</td>
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 <h3>Adam Rothstein</h3>
 <img src="Adam-Rothstein-256x256.jpg" />
-<p>Adam Rothstein is an insurgent archivist and artist. He writes about politics, media, art, and technology wherever he can get a signal. He is most interested in the canons of history and prediction, the so-called "Future-Weird", the unstable ramifications of today's cultural technology, and the materials and ideas out of which we build things. His book Drone was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2015. He is on Twitter @interdome.</p>
+<p>Adam Rothstein is an insurgent archivist and artist. He writes about politics, media, art, and technology wherever he can get a signal. He is most interested in the canons of history and prediction, the so-called "Future-Weird", the unstable ramifications of today's cultural technology, and the materials and ideas out of which we build things. His book Drone was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2015. He is on Twitter @interdome.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../rob-ray/">Rob Ray</a></h2>
+<h3>A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club</h3>
+<p>In 2016 a disaster response network of trained radio users sporting an ideal budget of $0 per person was born. While amateur radio existed through most of the 20th Century, by the 21st century it had become a bourgeois hobby for older white men. The established purpose of amateur radio in the regulations of the FCC had always been to set up a voluntary interest in radios for use in emergency (both environmental and military), but with the rise of commercial Internet radio networks (Wi-Fi) and cheap long-haul telecommunications networks, ham radio shacks became a collection of exclusive and fetishized gadgets. Younger people drifted towards the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>But in 2016, emergency came calling. A group of three coastal superstorms flooded most of the West Coast, and left the population without infrastructure for weeks. A small, previously unknown group calling themselves “Solarpunks” sprang up, to fill the communication gap. Using a number of levels of financial commitment--$0, $10, and $40--they began training a culture of youth hungry for the basic skills of radio and electronics, and then letting them train others. They descended upon the rubble to pull out bits of aluminum for antennas, drying out coaxial cable, and rescuing batteries and stereo speakers from stranded vehicles. Using the disabled tech of a failed infrastructure, they began connecting themselves into a network of learning and doing. The old-guard hams had all fled to high grounds weeks ago, but the Solarpunks remained, continued their modifications and grew in numbers.</p>
+
+<p>We will detail the speculative future-history of the Solarpunk Ham Radio Club and its method of spreading the use of radio with no financial investment. It took amateur radio back from a toxic commodity culture, just when it was needed most. The Solarpunks couldn’t  duplicate the permanent infrastructure that needs billions of dollars in funding. But with a foothold based on a resilient jugaad rather than expensive gadgets, they were able to find a way of teaching each other, that made their network resilient in a way that money could not.</p>

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 <h3>Amelia Marzec</h3>
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-<p>Amelia Marzec has been a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, a Fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University, a Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, and a CUNY-PSC Grantee. She was nominated for the World Technology Awards for Art, and has shown work at MIT and SIGGRAPH.</p>
+<p>Amelia Marzec has been a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, a Fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University, a Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, and a CUNY-PSC Grantee. She was nominated for the World Technology Awards for Art, and has shown work at MIT and SIGGRAPH.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Signal Strength and the Community Phone Booth</h3>
+<p>What happens when you need to share a vital message with a chosen few? The Signal Strength Project is an alternative network for cell phones to allow people to connect for a variety of reasons: loss of service due to political unrest or disaster relief, or the need to ensure privacy by communicating directly with peers instead of linking up to a centralized network. The project allows citizens to take mobile democracy into their own hands. It consists of hardware that hacks their existing mobile phone in order to circumvent cell phone providers and enable offline, peer to peer communication with other members of their urban community. It instantly connects users who are nearby, who are then able to message each other.</p>
+
+<p>The project explores the role of technology in shaping resistance. It bypasses our current infrastructure to create a new, private network for a close-knit community. It enables citizens by acknowledging our very human need for connection right here at home.</p>
+
+<p>The project can work alongside or independently of other services. The phone booths allow the system to exist in public space, for users who may not have access to the technology otherwise.</p>

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 <h3>Andrew Davis</h3>
 <img src="jh94JcO.jpg" width="50%" />
-<p>Andrew is an open media hacker specializing in writing specs for open web standards. He helped build the first media sharing website for user generated content, helped develop the html5 in-browser media standards, and helped get video editing into Wikipedia.</p>
+<p>Andrew is an open media hacker specializing in writing specs for open web standards. He helped build the first media sharing website for user generated content, helped develop the html5 in-browser media standards, and helped get video editing into Wikipedia.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>MTOS, federated, public key secured, social communications infrastructure</h3>
+<p>MTOS is a system for exchanging public keys and subscribing to and publishing data encrypted for those public keys. Data is encrypted for each user that subscribes to your feed and distributed via bittorrent for asyncronous collection. The talk is a brief overview of the protocol accompanied by a working demo installed for the duration of the conference.</p>

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 <img src="anshpatel.jpg" width="256" height="256" />
 <p>Ansh Patel is an interdisciplinary artist whose works range from experimental games to interactive digital media. His work usually marries practice with the conceptual, exploring the processes linking an idea to its implementation. His body of work in games generally comprises of short-form games that serve as critical deconstructions of a conventional aspect of the medium and culture. His digital media projects focuses on embodiment, digital performance, surveillance and how technology mediates our interaction.</p>
 
-<p>He is also a critic whose work has appeared in Paste, Unwinnable and Arcade Review. He occasionally writes academic papers on post-modernist meaning-making processes and post-colonial critiques of first-person shooter games.</p>
+<p>He is also a critic whose work has appeared in Paste, Unwinnable and Arcade Review. He occasionally writes academic papers on post-modernist meaning-making processes and post-colonial critiques of first-person shooter games.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition</h3>
+<p>Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari envisioned the "rhizome" as an ideological and semiotic structure which ended up serving in many ways as an underlying inspiration for the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>"The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition" is an interactive application which visualizes the complex interconnectivity of the Internet as well as the myriad ways data gets requested, tracked and siphoned while navigating it. Beginning with a participant choosing a URL as a "starting node", the application automates through different pages recursively scraping links and moving to the first, unique link briefly displaying the page before moving onto the next.</p>
+
+<p>In parallel, on a separate screen, all of these links are being visualized in a large connected network building the wide, interconnected mesh of nodes and links. Each node/web page will have a small visualized graph on its side, showing the number of content requests on it. Over time and through multiple "instantiations" by new participants, this visualized mesh will start building the rhizome of the Internet but also a dense display of how underlying mechanisms of data tracking are pervasive and enormous beneath the innocuous veil of the browser.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>Playful Mesh: Site-Specific Game to Visualize Networks</h3>
+<p>Wireless network and its architecture, to most people, is a pervasive but densely opaque and abstract entity that would be impossible to comprehend on their own.</p>
+
+<p>Play has always been human culture's aspect of simplifying and abstracting aspects about our real world into a temporary engaged experience out of which players emerge with a new-found look at the world around them.</p>
+
+<p>Using similar ideas about play and its potential to bring an awareness about our immediate environment, "Playful Mesh" is a site-specific game that will be installed at MAGNET, the location of the event, that visualizes the free-forming connections of the mesh nodes being formed by the spatial movement of its players.</p>
+
+<p>The game played by upto four players will be controlled directly by the number of active nodes in the mesh, their spatial location allowing them to form bonds with their nearest neighbor to allow them a greater power of expressiveness on the game's abstract painting that's projected onto the screen. As a result of which, players can start forming a direct connection on how their spatial relationship is being reflected in the mesh network, allowing them to understand basic aspects of connectivity albeit in a fun and playful way.</p>

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 <h3>Benedetta Piantella</h3>
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-<p>Benedetta Piantella is a designer turned humanitarian technologist. She has taught Lego robotics and worked for Arduino in Italy, and Smart Design in NYC, producing interactive prototypes for high-end clients. She has founded engineering R&amp;D companies focused on producing sustainable solutions to humanitarian, social, environmental challenges worldwide. She has built partnerships with organizations such as the UN, UNICEF, The Millennium Villages Project, Universities such as NYU, Columbia and Princeton and multiple NGOs and has designed, prototyped and deployed projects in countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. She recently covered the position of Technology Architect for the Earth Institute and the Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, she is an Open Source advocate and is currently a full-time faculty member at NYU-ITP where she teaches Physical Computing and Engineering for Development.</p>
+<p>Benedetta Piantella is a designer turned humanitarian technologist. She has taught Lego robotics and worked for Arduino in Italy, and Smart Design in NYC, producing interactive prototypes for high-end clients. She has founded engineering R&amp;D companies focused on producing sustainable solutions to humanitarian, social, environmental challenges worldwide. She has built partnerships with organizations such as the UN, UNICEF, The Millennium Villages Project, Universities such as NYU, Columbia and Princeton and multiple NGOs and has designed, prototyped and deployed projects in countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. She recently covered the position of Technology Architect for the Earth Institute and the Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, she is an Open Source advocate and is currently a full-time faculty member at NYU-ITP where she teaches Physical Computing and Engineering for Development.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>GSM For Good</h3>
+<p>Open source cellular networks are happening - this talk will introduce a brief overview of what they are, how they work compared to a regular GSM cellular network and open source resources available to jump start one. Benedetta will also talk about how she got to using them and the class she developed at ITP called Towers of Power. She will also present some of the projects that have resulted from the class and some of the latest things she is working on.</p>

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 <h3>Brian Hall</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f6e79636d6573682e6e65742f6173736574732f696d616765732f6c6f676f2e706e67.png" />
-<p>Brian Hall has worked as a freelance software engineer in NYC for 20 years and he was the senior software engineer at Sales Graphics/CustomShow. He is interested in using technology to create decentralized structures. He has been active in organizing NYC Mesh for over a year.</p>
+<p>Brian Hall has worked as a freelance software engineer in NYC for 20 years and he was the senior software engineer at Sales Graphics/CustomShow. He is interested in using technology to create decentralized structures. He has been active in organizing NYC Mesh for over a year.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../julien-deswaef/">Julien Deswaef</a> and <a href="../dan-grinkevich/">Dan Grinkevich</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>

speakers/bruno-kruse/index.html

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 <h3>Bruno Kruse</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f7777772e64726f70626f782e636f6d2f732f7a74696b3069386b6531626f346b6e2f6272756e6f2d70726f66696c652d7069632d3235362e706e673f646c3d31.png" />
-<p>Bruno Kruse is an interaction designer and developer. His recent artwork focuses on developing tools to create interactive installations. He utilizes technology to create meaningful experiences and is motivated by an ongoing curiosity of designing with code.</p>
+<p>Bruno Kruse is an interaction designer and developer. His recent artwork focuses on developing tools to create interactive installations. He utilizes technology to create meaningful experiences and is motivated by an ongoing curiosity of designing with code.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../carrie-kengle/">Carrie Kengle</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: How Was Your Day, an Ambient Network</h3>
+
+<p>"How Was Your Day" is an experimental social network that enables you to communicate via color and light.</p>
+
+<p>Light patterns and color as forms communication has been explored throughout history. Examples include signal lamps, morse code, smoke signals and smartphone notifications. Can we develop our own ambient language using only patterns, light and color?</p>
+
+<p>Together in this workshop we are looking to push the these concepts further with our favorite modern-day web technologies. We will be designing a peer-to-peer communication network using software and hardware tools including Raspberry Pi, MeteorJS, MQTT, LED Strips and breakout boards.</p>
+
+<p>In the first half of the workshop we will learn about basic setup, networking and communication with Raspberry Pi. In the second half we'll build out the hardware component of the project to display our network data via light. Our breakout board kit is designed to be a simple way to connect LED strips to the RaspberryPi GPIO.</p>
+
+<h3>Workshop Agenda</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Setting up the RPi</li>
+<li>Installing our social network templates. NodeJS + MQTT</li>
+<li>Break</li>
+<li>Hardware jam and building</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Prerequisites</h3>
+<p>Basic programming knowledge recommended. (JavaScript)</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring $60 cash to purchase at the workshop, or bring your own:
+<ul>
+<li>Raspberry Pi Model B+</li>
+<li>USB WiFi dongle (802.11b/g/n)</li>
+<li>8GB Card w/ Raspbian Wheezy</li>
+<li>5V 2A MicroUSB power cable</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>We will also provide each attendee with these additional items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Custom hardware</li>
+<li>LED Strip</li>
+<li>5V power supply for the LEDs</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Each participant should have a laptop with a text editor and an SSH client installed.</p>

speakers/caroline-sinders/index.html

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 <h3>Caroline Sinders</h3>
-<p>Caroline Sinders is an interaction designer for IBM Watson, artist, researcher and video game designer. She was born in New Orleans and is currently based in Brooklyn. She received her masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where she focused on HCI, prototyping, and interactive storytelling. She holds a bachelor of fine arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Photography and Imaging, where she studied digital culture and large format portraiture. Caroline is a member of the Code Liberation Foundation’s board, as well as a teacher for the foundation. Her current personal work explores UX and UI to stymy harassment and 'designing consent' into system designs and communication design for social networking sites. Her work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Bust Magazine, Animal NY, Narratively, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and other places.</p>
+<p>Caroline Sinders is an interaction designer for IBM Watson, artist, researcher and video game designer. She was born in New Orleans and is currently based in Brooklyn. She received her masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where she focused on HCI, prototyping, and interactive storytelling. She holds a bachelor of fine arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Photography and Imaging, where she studied digital culture and large format portraiture. Caroline is a member of the Code Liberation Foundation’s board, as well as a teacher for the foundation. Her current personal work explores UX and UI to stymy harassment and 'designing consent' into system designs and communication design for social networking sites. Her work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Bust Magazine, Animal NY, Narratively, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and other places.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../david-huerta/">David Huerta</a> and <a href="../stephanie-hyland/">Stephanie Hyland</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>

speakers/carrie-kengle/index.html

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 <h3>Carrie Kengle</h3>
 <img src="68747470733a2f2f7777772e64726f70626f782e636f6d2f732f6937657779696a72687664366667722f636b2d70726f66696c652d7069632d3235362e706e673f646c3d31.png" />
-<p>Carrie Kengle is a New York based developer and designer. She is an active open-source contributor and can be found using the Raspberry Pi to create installations, web and data driven LED works</p>
+<p>Carrie Kengle is a New York based developer and designer. She is an active open-source contributor and can be found using the Raspberry Pi to create installations, web and data driven LED works</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../bruno-kruse/">Bruno Kruse</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: How Was Your Day, an Ambient Network</h3>
+
+<p>"How Was Your Day" is an experimental social network that enables you to communicate via color and light.</p>
+
+<p>Light patterns and color as forms communication has been explored throughout history. Examples include signal lamps, morse code, smoke signals and smartphone notifications. Can we develop our own ambient language using only patterns, light and color?</p>
+
+<p>Together in this workshop we are looking to push the these concepts further with our favorite modern-day web technologies. We will be designing a peer-to-peer communication network using software and hardware tools including Raspberry Pi, MeteorJS, MQTT, LED Strips and breakout boards.</p>
+
+<p>In the first half of the workshop we will learn about basic setup, networking and communication with Raspberry Pi. In the second half we'll build out the hardware component of the project to display our network data via light. Our breakout board kit is designed to be a simple way to connect LED strips to the RaspberryPi GPIO.</p>
+
+<h3>Workshop Agenda</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Setting up the RPi</li>
+<li>Installing our social network templates. NodeJS + MQTT</li>
+<li>Break</li>
+<li>Hardware jam and building</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Prerequisites</h3>
+<p>Basic programming knowledge recommended. (JavaScript)</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring $60 cash to purchase at the workshop, or bring your own:
+<ul>
+<li>Raspberry Pi Model B+</li>
+<li>USB WiFi dongle (802.11b/g/n)</li>
+<li>8GB Card w/ Raspbian Wheezy</li>
+<li>5V 2A MicroUSB power cable</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>We will also provide each attendee with these additional items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Custom hardware</li>
+<li>LED Strip</li>
+<li>5V power supply for the LEDs</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Each participant should have a laptop with a text editor and an SSH client installed.</p>

speakers/chris-fussner/index.html

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 <h3>Chris Fussner</h3>
 <img src="radical-networks_vsoon.jpg" />
-<p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+<p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../noah-emrich/">Noah Emrich</a></h2>
+<h3>The Importance of Soft Infrastructure</h3>
+
+<p>We will be discussing the human element in developing alternative communication networks, primarily community mesh networks. Looking at importance of local soft infrastructures in establishing and sustaining networks. Drawing from our 3 month journey, experiences and insights as non technical people diving into mesh networks in NYC and beyond.</p>

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 <h3>Dan Grinkevich</h3>
 <img src="../brian-hall/68747470733a2f2f6e79636d6573682e6e65742f6173736574732f696d616765732f6c6f676f2e706e67.png" />
-<p>Dan Grinkevich has 10 years of experience in the electric utility industry as a Senior Compliance Engineer. He is an Organizer, Firmware Developer and Network Security Expert at NYC Mesh. In his free time he enjoys amateur radio, photography and hardware hacking.</p>
+<p>Dan Grinkevich has 10 years of experience in the electric utility industry as a Senior Compliance Engineer. He is an Organizer, Firmware Developer and Network Security Expert at NYC Mesh. In his free time he enjoys amateur radio, photography and hardware hacking.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../julien-deswaef/">Julien Deswaef</a> and <a href="../brian-hall/">Brian Hall</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>

speakers/david-huerta/index.html

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 <h3>David Huerta</h3>
-<p>David Huerta is a co-organizer for of CryptoParty NYC, a non-organization of teach-in workshops which bring privacy-enhancing technology skills to New Yorkers. In 2009, he created Hayst.ac, a browser plugin which obfuscated Google search histories to make them harder to accurately data-mine. He also created an open-hardware "mixtape" in 2013 which contained an soundtrack that was encrypted, then mailed to the NSA without the key needed to decrypt it.</p>
+<p>David Huerta is a co-organizer for of CryptoParty NYC, a non-organization of teach-in workshops which bring privacy-enhancing technology skills to New Yorkers. In 2009, he created Hayst.ac, a browser plugin which obfuscated Google search histories to make them harder to accurately data-mine. He also created an open-hardware "mixtape" in 2013 which contained an soundtrack that was encrypted, then mailed to the NSA without the key needed to decrypt it.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../caroline-sinders/">Caroline Sinders</a> and <a href="../stephanie-hyland/">Stephanie Hyland</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>

speakers/dawn-walker/index.html

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 <h3>Dawn Walker</h3>
 <img src="5eb61dca-3d52-11e5-9015-b96807fa5bc9.jpg" />
-<p>Dawn Walker is a Masters student in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Her interests include community-led infrastructure development and responses to surveillance. She has coordinated and led workshops on mesh networking, open source software and introductions to various technology. A keen gardener, Dawn has spent time building and volunteering in community gardens and urban agriculture projects.</p>
+<p>Dawn Walker is a Masters student in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Her interests include community-led infrastructure development and responses to surveillance. She has coordinated and led workshops on mesh networking, open source software and introductions to various technology. A keen gardener, Dawn has spent time building and volunteering in community gardens and urban agriculture projects.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks</h3>
+<p>Immaterial networks can be hard to make sense of, analyze or critique without tangible artefacts to engage with. I will explore this challenge through a hands on workshop where participants will use a full range of senses and modalities to visualize and map networks. Through individual and group exercises we will experiment with different techniques designed to reveal connections and flows within networks.</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring post-its, paper, pens, markers, and a laptop.</p>

speakers/dennis-de-bel/index.html

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 <p>De Bel's exploration of interactivity and utility has led him to make humorous design interventions, manifested word puns, useless software and more recently "no-ware". This term describes some of his latest works that are no longer hardware nor software but non-products, unique multiples and mass-produced one-offs that question functionality, inventiveness and innovation.</p>
 
-<p>Currently he is collaborating with <a href="../roel-roscam-abbing">Roel Roscam Abbing</a> on a practical research project on 'Post-Digital Communication in the last days of the web'.</p>
+<p>Currently he is collaborating with <a href="../roel-roscam-abbing">Roel Roscam Abbing</a> on a practical research project on 'Post-Digital Communication in the last days of the web'.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../roel-roscam-abbing/">Roel Roscam Abbing</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Packet Radio Networks</h3>
+<p>Before there was the internet there was a wireless internet. In this (non-FCC approved) workshop we will look back to ALOHANET, AMPRNET and examine the phenomenon of packet radio. The workshop will be a hands-on, interactive demonstration of the possibilities of packet radio and the workflow/toolchain. We will go into both historical and contemporary examples and try to set up a little network on the spot.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will learn how to utilize commercial walkie-talkie radios and free software to transmit and receive TCP/IP over HF or UHF radio. In other words, internet via walkie-talkie, because yes, that's possible. Looking beyond the usual "When Shit Hits The Fan Scenario's" we will discuss the true potential and shortcomings of these 6km+ range wireless 'routers'. Depending on the wishes of the participants we can either do a demo and go through the steps and requirements of setting this up for themselves or help set up participant's own equipment to create one big offline network.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will get a small publication that is both an introduction into the concept as well as a practical guide on how set up your internet over walkie talkie. Each participant will get one copy as a reference etc for when they want to do their own experiments.</p>
+
+<p>No experience is necessary.</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Please bring a laptop, preferably with Linux installed, a USB flash drive ~4GB, and $9 for additional materials prepared by the workshop leaders.</p>
+
+<h3>Extra materials to bring if you would like (but are not required)</h3>
+<ul>
+	<li>UHF walkie talkie's if you already have some available.</li>
+	<li>'Baofeng UV-5r' (in yellow, blue or red)</li>
+	<li>2.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm TNC plug (4 pole)</li>
+	<li>Audiocable (2 pole)</li>
+</ul>

speakers/derek-curry/index.html

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 <h3>Derek Curry</h3>
 <img src="jen_derek.png" />
-<p>Derek Curry's artistic practice engages questions of agency and knowledge production through a variety of mediums from video games and data analytics, to participatory performance and sculptural data visualizations, and his research focuses on algorithmic modes of control, particularly in the electronic stock exchanges. Curry is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Media Study. He earned his MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+<p>Derek Curry's artistic practice engages questions of agency and knowledge production through a variety of mediums from video games and data analytics, to participatory performance and sculptural data visualizations, and his research focuses on algorithmic modes of control, particularly in the electronic stock exchanges. Curry is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Media Study. He earned his MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../jennifer-gradecki/">Jennifer Gradecki</a></h2>
+<h3>Crowd-Sourcing Social Media Network Surveillance</h3>
+<p>We will discuss the findings from our artistic research project, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)—a web-based application that allows the user to participate in, and discuss the surveillance of social media networks.  Created from documents on intelligence gathering techniques currently in use that have been made available through FOIA requests or leaked to the public, the CSIA app is open to anyone with a Twitter account.  Agents can debate each other’s ratings, and defend their own tweets. The aim of CSIA is to foster a more informed debate on the problems associated with secret, automated, “collect it all” surveillance by opening up the process of intelligence production for all to see.  By giving users first-hand experience with how social media surveillance works, we also hope to provide them with the means to navigate the security apparatus to choose if they want to evade algorithmic capture, jam the system with too much information, or find another mode of engagement. The CSIA not only opens a debate about the effectiveness of surveillance techniques, but it also enables users to reflect on how they want to engage with it.</p>
+
+<p>In our talk, we will demonstrate how our application works and allow the audience to participate on their own computer or mobile device.  We will then present some of our findings from the project, including information about how intelligence agencies operate, some of the limitations and choices we were confronted with while programming the application, and user interactions with the application that we have observed.</p>

speakers/edward-vielmetti/index.html

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 <h3>Edward Vielmetti</h3>
 <img src="35047.jpg" />
-<p>Edward Vielmetti has been working on the Internet since 1985 from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His background includes work on the early commercialization and privatization of the Internet. Previous conference presentations include "WYSSA means all my love, darling: A social history of the Internet from the carrier pigeon to Antarctic morse code" (UPA 2006) and "Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Cybercommerce" at (ARABANK 1996, Dubai, United Arab Emirates).</p>
+<p>Edward Vielmetti has been working on the Internet since 1985 from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His background includes work on the early commercialization and privatization of the Internet. Previous conference presentations include "WYSSA means all my love, darling: A social history of the Internet from the carrier pigeon to Antarctic morse code" (UPA 2006) and "Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Cybercommerce" at (ARABANK 1996, Dubai, United Arab Emirates).</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Over the top networks, a history of building new systems on the wreckage of the old</h3>
+<p>New networks are often feed off of old ones, in ways that characteristically draw energy from aspects of those networks that are easy to take over and hard to defend. In this talk, I'll look at the waves of creative destruction that are unleashed when network developers find existing infrastructure that can be exploited for new ends, and the ways that commoditized networks fight back to avoid being turned into dumb pipes.</p>
+
+<p>The talk will look at the history and the future of these overlay or over-the-top networks, going back three decades for stories of networks like Usenet, electronic mail, and payments networks and how they started out parasitizing existing older networks only be overtopped by other interests as file sharing, security, and identity layers of newer networks. I'll look at rules for developers of radical advances in networks and guidelines to avoid the pitfalls of unexpected dependencies and hidden traps.

speakers/epic-jefferson/index.html

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 <img src="68747470733a2f2f73636f6e74656e742d696164332d312e78782e666263646e2e6e65742f6870686f746f732d667263332f762f74312e302d392f3934353433345f31303135323832313334393330303039365f313739343332383735355f6e2e6a70673f6f683d363861333732666462383937643231336363353134.jpg" width="300px" />
 <p>I've been working with technology for about 6 years now. I'm currently pursuing a Masters in Tangible Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on sound design and interfaces for the performance of sound.</p>
 
-<p>Since 2013, I've co-directed the <a href="http://ledhack.org/" target="_blank">Lab for Erroneous Design</a>, Puerto Rico's first hackerspace.</p>
+<p>Since 2013, I've co-directed the <a href="http://ledhack.org/" target="_blank">Lab for Erroneous Design</a>, Puerto Rico's first hackerspace.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Crowsourced (or not) Public Transportation GPS Tracking</h3>
+<p>I grew up in Puerto Rico, which has currently been in the public eye in America due to it's social/economic shenanigans. Many of it’s public services (namely the Public Transportation System) are crippled, unable to provide adequate service to the population. Some routes have only 1 bus pass every hour or hour and a half, only to have the bus pass you by because it’s filled to the brim.</p>
+
+<p>Even though these buses have actually had a GPS system installed since around 2006, it has only been used by a private company to “prevent theft”.</p>
+
+<p>I’m proposing a system where riders provide the GPS data themselves, for each other. Using a simple phone application (currently Android only), riders can transmit their own GPS data, making the bus location known to other potential riders in real-time, through the corresponding site that loads the data on a map.</p>
+
+<p>Ideally, the Public Transportation System itself could implement this system, as it very cheap to implement and keep running.</p>

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 <h3>Garry Ing</h3>
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-<p>Garry Ing is a designer and technologist residing in Toronto. His previous work and collaborations has been with the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at OCAD University, the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab at the University of Toronto, and Normative. He is a graduate of OCAD University, with a background in graphic design.</p>
+<p>Garry Ing is a designer and technologist residing in Toronto. His previous work and collaborations has been with the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at OCAD University, the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab at the University of Toronto, and Normative. He is a graduate of OCAD University, with a background in graphic design.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>MAC as a Place and Landscape</h3>
+<p>A media access control (MAC) address is sometimes encountered as a read-only hexadecimal string, separated by colons or hyphens, and often cited as a method to identify network interfaces in their physical instantiation; a port in which ethernet is stringed into, an adapter grafted to a computer. Though not immediately visible or understandable, their hexadecimal compositions are used in procedural means to block, allow, or trace the behaviour of a networked device and often times an individual. Though much of the attention with MAC addresses are in support of these uses, MAC addresses can also by interpreted as a peculiar landscape of manufactures and geographies.</p>
+
+<p>This talk will look at MAC addresses through a publicly available dataset by the IEEE Registration Authority. The dataset is composed of organizationally unique identifiers (OUI) that is often used in network related software as means to clearly identify manufactures of interfaces. The dataset is a starting point in a series of attempts to make visible the architecture, geographies, and stories behind the manufacturing and distribution of network interfaces.</p>

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 	<li><a href="joe-chasinga">Joe Chasinga</a></li>
 	<li><a href="paige-peterson">Paige Peterson</a></li>
 	<li><a href="chris-fussner">Chris Fussner</a> and <a href="noah-emrich">Noah Emrich</a></li>
-	<li><a href="luffor-rahman">Prof. Luffor Rahman</a></li>
+	<li><a href="lutfor-rahman">Prof. Lutfor Rahman</a></li>
 	<li><a href="shuli-hallak">Shuli Hallak</a></li>
 	<li><a href="pedro-oliveria">Pedro Oliveria</a></li>
 	<li><a href="derek-curry">Derek Curry</a> and <a href="jennifer-gradecki">Jennifer Gradecki</a></li>

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 <h3>Ingrid Burrington</h3>
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-<p>Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. Her most recent work has focused primarily on infrastructure and magic.</p>
+<p>Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. Her most recent work has focused primarily on infrastructure and magic.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Ghost Networks</h3>
+<p>The zeal with which humans develop and implement new communications networks is matched only by their ability to forget the legacies and mistakes already made building past networks. Ironically, at least in the U.S., most of our communication networks build atop the remnants of those past networks. This talk will offer a series of ghost stories about the politics, personalities, and ideologies that continue to haunt our machines, and how our new networks might live with or at least keep the ghosts at bay.</p>
+
+<h2>... and presenting with <a href="../surya-mattu/">Surya Mattu</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG about TLDs</h3>
+<p>No experience necessary, no extra materials needed.</p>
+<p>Domain names are where the politics, poetics, and peculiarities of the web express themselves in often the most direct and clever ways. But even the most active domain name hoarder might not really understand how the Domain Name System works, why certain TLDs exist, and how they at times become an arena where real-world geopolitical conflicts play out online.</p>
+
+<p>This is a workshop about understanding the technical structures behind the weird and deeply political world of domain names via a live-action roleplaying game. We'll begin with an overview of DNS, ICANN, the TLD creation process, engage in some roleplaying scenarios based on real-world incidents in ICANN history, and brainstorm alternative models to the current model for network naming conventions. Somewhere between Risk, D&amp;D, Model UN, and TRON.</p>

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 <h3>Jennifer Gradecki</h3>
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-<p>Jennifer Gradecki's art and research focuses on the relationship between information and power, and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible. Gradecki is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Visual Studies. She earned her MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+<p>Jennifer Gradecki's art and research focuses on the relationship between information and power, and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible. Gradecki is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Visual Studies. She earned her MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../derek-curry/">Derek Curry</a></h2>
+<h3>Crowd-Sourcing Social Media Network Surveillance</h3>
+<p>We will discuss the findings from our artistic research project, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)—a web-based application that allows the user to participate in, and discuss the surveillance of social media networks.  Created from documents on intelligence gathering techniques currently in use that have been made available through FOIA requests or leaked to the public, the CSIA app is open to anyone with a Twitter account.  Agents can debate each other’s ratings, and defend their own tweets. The aim of CSIA is to foster a more informed debate on the problems associated with secret, automated, “collect it all” surveillance by opening up the process of intelligence production for all to see.  By giving users first-hand experience with how social media surveillance works, we also hope to provide them with the means to navigate the security apparatus to choose if they want to evade algorithmic capture, jam the system with too much information, or find another mode of engagement. The CSIA not only opens a debate about the effectiveness of surveillance techniques, but it also enables users to reflect on how they want to engage with it.</p>
+
+<p>In our talk, we will demonstrate how our application works and allow the audience to participate on their own computer or mobile device.  We will then present some of our findings from the project, including information about how intelligence agencies operate, some of the limitations and choices we were confronted with while programming the application, and user interactions with the application that we have observed.</p>

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 <h3>Jesse Tweedle</h3>
-<p>I am an PhD student in economics at the University of Calgary and a research affiliate in CDER at Statistics Canada. I work on social and financial and production networks.</p>
+<p>I am an PhD student in economics at the University of Calgary and a research affiliate in CDER at Statistics Canada. I work on social and financial and production networks.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Ownership Incentives and Network Evolution</h3>
+<p>How does a network evolve? A network based on speed has a tendency to become centralized---think of the Internet or the WWW, or the production network of the US, or even airline routes---the optimal ownership structure results in a centralized network. Economics can help us understand the use and ownership incentives that shape the evolution and formation of networks.</p>
+
+<p>I will present real world examples of the interaction between network ownership and performance---think of Facebook's investments in <a href="https://internet.org/" target="_blank">Internet.org</a>, or why and how Turkey frequently <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/22/9013269/turkey-blocks-twitter-suruc-bombing" target="_blank">blocks Twitter</a>. For example, if performance in a network is defined by speed, the network infrastructure tends to come from a small number of sources and can be easily controlled by them or co-opted by government agencies. If those governments are less than democratic, citizens may not have any control over sources of communication. However, if networks require reliability, networks should be decentralized, which reduces incentives for infrastructure investment. Some of the solutions to these problems are technological, some political, but a serious study of the incentives surrounding network infrastructure and ownership is crucial to understanding the potential of networks.</p>
+
+<p>These real world examples tie directly to network research, drawing from statistical random graphs (<a href="http://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.74.47" target="_blank">Albert and Barabasi (2002)</a>), vulnerability of communication networks (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6794/full/406378a0.html" target="_blank">Albert, Jeong and Barabasi (2000)</a>), and financial contagion in economics (<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2553900" target="_blank">Acemoglu et al. (2015)</a>, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2175056" target="_blank">Elliot et al. (2014)</a>). These theories provide useful measures for measuring network structures (Bonacich centrality, concentration centrality, degree sequences, integration and diversification, and more), and how the properties of network integration and diversification interact with performance.</p>
+
+<p>The takeaway from this talk is that economic perspectives are useful for studying networks. You can study the incentives of network use and formation to explain and predict network evolution.</p>

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 		<li>Latest individual project - <a href="http://jochenmariaweber.de/cuckoo/cuckoo.html" target="_blank">Project Cuckoo</a> (featured on Creative Applications, Prote.in, Neural.it)</li>
 		<li><a href="http://jochenmariaweber.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">little tumblr scrap-book</a>: pictures &amp; thoughts from individual stuff.</li>
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-</p>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Stupid, Messy Networks</h3>
+<p>"Stupid, Messy Networks" is the result of my MA thesis concerned with actor-network-interactions focusing on probable and improbable alternative networks of public ownership. The talk will first give a quick overview of my work. Then introduce a differentiated definition of network architecture. Further I will lead trough a few economical , political and cultural implications of how idiosyncratic utilized network-architectures, topologies and protocols introduce constrains on immediate interactions with connected objects and software (with references on literature about network theory and philosophy by i.e. B. vanSchewick, G.Bell, C. Vitale, L. DeNardis or L. Lessing and J. Lanier etc.). I´ll argue that, as we strive for ubiquitous interconnection of almost anything, what we should pay attention to is not what we connect; since we are about to connect everything. Important will be HOW we build the connections. It´s less about the nodes at the ends, rather than about the links inbetween, and how they diffuse into everyday life. Following up on my thesis I will represent two to three of my case studies/examples on how this knowledge and insights can be applied for the pro-active design of actor-network-interactions, from a perspective of public interest.</p>

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 <h3>Joe Chasinga</h3>
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-<p>I'm an interaction designer self-taught in computer programming. I have always been an artist until after college when I found peace in technology and communication. I came from Thailand, a country undergoing political changes and struggling to understand her own ground. My interests are computer network, internet of things, physical computing and writing. I'm also actively developing an open source library for arduino in Python for educational purpose.</p>
+<p>I'm an interaction designer self-taught in computer programming. I have always been an artist until after college when I found peace in technology and communication. I came from Thailand, a country undergoing political changes and struggling to understand her own ground. My interests are computer network, internet of things, physical computing and writing. I'm also actively developing an open source library for arduino in Python for educational purpose.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Democracy through Grassroot Local Networks</h3>
+<p>I want to outline democracy in general and how people's voice and communication among groups can leverage people's information against draconian and ever-sniffing authorities. Then I want to give some examples, for instance, my home country, Thailand, which is under military dictatorship which is censoring and controlling public media as well as prosecuting artists, academicians, writers and students who voice against it and in a common workplace where employers have the right to sniff everything their employees do on the internet. The enemy of a true democratic community is a network of bureaucratic bodies, from the company one work for all the way to the head of state.</p>
+
+<p>Then, I will talk about an idea of local networks and, like local radios in the heydays, can empower grassroots to form factions, exchange information and communicate with lower risk of getting detected or intercepted by the big brothers. The idea is to deploy a cheap, portable device (i.e. Raspberry Pi or a phone) as a home-grown local server serving a chat application in which a group of members can form an encrypted conversation around it with all the files saved to the device which an appointed leader can carry, backup, delete and destroy at will.</p>

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 <h3>Joshua Kopstein</h3>
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-<p>Joshua Kopstein is a journalist and researcher focused on the study and circumvention of government and corporate surveillance systems. He has been published in outlets including Al Jazeera, The New Yorker, VICE, Ars Technica, and The Verge. He also authors <a href="http://tinyletter.com/lawfulintercept" target="_blank">Lawful Intercept</a>, a newsletter about surveillance, technology, privacy, and power.</p>
+<p>Joshua Kopstein is a journalist and researcher focused on the study and circumvention of government and corporate surveillance systems. He has been published in outlets including Al Jazeera, The New Yorker, VICE, Ars Technica, and The Verge. He also authors <a href="http://tinyletter.com/lawfulintercept" target="_blank">Lawful Intercept</a>, a newsletter about surveillance, technology, privacy, and power.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: There Is No Cloud: Dumping Dropbox to Create a Personal
+Anti-Cloud For Cheap</h3>
+<p>From the NSA revelations to hacked celebrity photo scandals, we've been
+given countless reasons to stop trusting centralized data storage
+services such as iCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox. It's now common
+knowledge that by using these services we surrender control of our data
+to profit-driven corporations, leaving it at the mercy of data-mining
+advertisers, government spooks, and malicious hackers. Thanks to arcane
+Terms of Service agreements and automatic opt-in schemes, often this
+private data is being transmitted and stored elsewhere without our
+knowledge or consent.</p>
+
+<p>The fact that we still use these services despite this knowledge isn't a
+surrender: It's simply proof that telling everyone to “stop using the
+cloud” isn't working, and never will. What we need instead is to
+introduce decentralized cloud alternatives that preserve our privacy and
+sovereignty while providing the same usability and convenience – with
+little or no compromise.</p>
+
+<p>In this workshop, participants will learn how to use a $40 Raspberry Pi
+to create a personal “anti-cloud” that safely and seamlessly syncs files
+between all of their devices, using peer-to-peer apps like BitTorrent
+Sync instead of corporate-controlled file lockers. From there, we will
+take this private network to the next level by exploring ArkOS, a more
+ambitious platform designed to keep all of your data “in-house,” where
+it belongs.</p>
+
+<p>This method is far from perfect, and various drawbacks, caveats, and
+alternatives will be noted along the way. But it is a relatively
+painless and elegant solution that can be achieved with almost no
+monetary costs and little technical know-how. More importantly, by
+exploring the possibility space for cloud alternatives, we can help
+bring the decentralized, surveillance-resistant Internet one step closer
+to reality.</p>
+
+<p>Participants must bring their own laptops (PC, Mac, or Linux). Raspberry
+Pis will be provided. Basic familiarity with the command line is
+recommended, but not mandatory. This workshop is recommended for
+beginners with little/no knowledge of computer networking as well as
+more advanced users hoping to learn about cloud file storage alternatives.</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<a href="http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Complete-Original-Preloaded/dp/B008XVAVAW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1443054384&sr=8-3&keywords=raspberry+pi+starter+kit" target="_blank">Recommended kit</a> for hands-on part of workshop ($70)
+
+<p>Note: You can still attend the workshop if you are unable to obtain the needed materials. You won't be able to fully participate in the hands-on session, but there will also be a lecture component regarding P2P clouds. Please be sure to at least bring a laptop running Mac, Linux or Windows.</p>

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 <h3>Julien Deswaef</h3>
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-<p>Julien Deswaef is a designer and versatile artist. 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, Julien relevantly provides the connection between the visual arts, the world of contemporary images and the most advanced aspects in digital research. He was also a member of "Reseau Citoyen", the community owned mesh network of Brussels, Belgium.</p>
+<p>Julien Deswaef is a designer and versatile artist. 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, Julien relevantly provides the connection between the visual arts, the world of contemporary images and the most advanced aspects in digital research. He was also a member of "Reseau Citoyen", the community owned mesh network of Brussels, Belgium.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../dan-grinkevich/">Dan Grinkevich</a> and <a href="../brian-hall/">Brian Hall</a></h2>
+<h3>NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network</h3>
+<p>NYC Mesh is a community-owned resilient Wi-Fi mesh network, started by a group of passionate volunteers in New York City.</p>
+
+<p>The aim is to create a free, resilient, stand-alone communication system that serves both for daily use and also for emergencies — be it power outages or Internet disruption — running software that helps our community with hyperlocal maps and events.</p>
+
+<p>During this talk, Brian, Dan and Julien will present the status of the network, how it works, how to get involved and why this could be useful for artists, technologists and the people of New York. There will also be some prepared nodes that you can buy ($28) and bring home to get yourself immediately on board.</p>

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 <h3>Keith Whyte</h3>
 <p>Keith Whyte is a musician and intensive computer and network user who has been working with the comunications needs of social organisations since 1991 when he ran a dial-up BBS and FidoNet node.
-In 2011, after initial discussions about community cellular with Rhizomatica founder Peter Bloom, he setup initial trial GSM installations at the Contemporary Art Archipelago in Turku, Finland and The Global Contemporary at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.</p>
+In 2011, after initial discussions about community cellular with Rhizomatica founder Peter Bloom, he setup initial trial GSM installations at the Contemporary Art Archipelago in Turku, Finland and The Global Contemporary at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>On being the alternative in the absence of alternatives</h3>
+<p>This talk will begin with a short description of the Rhizomatica Community Cellular Network installations, a run down on the technology used, and a brief update on recent changes and advances for those who have been following the project.
+We'll take a look at some of the problems encountered; remote networks in difficult to access places, users expectations - providing 'carrier grade' service on self owned networks while those networks still depend on connections to upstream non free (internet) networks.</p>
+
+<p>This will be followed by a thought and hopefully discussion provoking look at introducing new technology into a community.</p>
+
+<p>Since the discovery of radio, a marvellous tool for empowerment, mass media through radio, television and cinema has been consistently used as a means for cultural imposition and control. For many today, it may seem strange and far off to imagine a world without even a simple landline, yet like so much technology, even the simple landline changes aspects of community life. Todays corporate internet, (essentially an extension of telephony) would appear to be going the same direction, as new users are sought out based on how their potential activity on the network can be monetized.
+From the perspective of bringing an alternative network to where there is still space to dream how that network might be, What can be done about these issues, or is it already too late? Are there ethical questions to be asked about connecting the whole world to a corporate network, and if there are, then who asks them and more importantly, who gives the answers?</p>

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-<h3>Luffor Rahman</h3>
-<p>I am Lutfor Rahman employed as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Stamford University Bangladesh. I was born in 1949. I obtained M.Sc in Physics in 1969 and another Masters in Applied Physics and Electronics from Rajshahi University. After long gap I obtained PhD from Malyasia. In my long professional career I served as Vice Chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Science and Technology University in Bangladesh, Treasurer, Chairman of CSE department at Stamford University. In industrial field I served at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1980-85, and in Sanyo Electronics co. Japan.</p>
-
-<p>I have several publications on ICT, science and technology. One of the books is En-cyclopidia of Gender and ICT under Chief Editor, Dr. Eileen Truth of Pennsylvania state University.</p>
-
-<p>I have attended at least 30 international Conferences, workshops, seminars as paper presenter, speaker and session chair.</p>

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+<h3>Lutfor Rahman</h3>
+<p>I am Lutfor Rahman employed as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Stamford University Bangladesh. I was born in 1949. I obtained M.Sc in Physics in 1969 and another Masters in Applied Physics and Electronics from Rajshahi University. After long gap I obtained PhD from Malyasia. In my long professional career I served as Vice Chancellor, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Science and Technology University in Bangladesh, Treasurer, Chairman of CSE department at Stamford University. In industrial field I served at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1980-85, and in Sanyo Electronics co. Japan.</p>
+
+<p>I have several publications on ICT, science and technology. One of the books is En-cyclopidia of Gender and ICT under Chief Editor, Dr. Eileen Truth of Pennsylvania state University.</p>
+
+<p>I have attended at least 30 international Conferences, workshops, seminars as paper presenter, speaker and session chair.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Bringing connectivity to rural areas in Bangladesh</h3>
+<p>Women in Bangladesh in 90s were disadvantaged particularly in science and technology fields. Their scientific knowledge and talents were poorly recognized in the community and their work places. The scientific activities were considered males jobs. An initiative was taken in 1996 to empower the Woman Scientists, Technologists and Researchers of Bangladesh with Information Technology using computers under the banner of the Association for Advancement of Information Technology (AAIT). Senior scientists, technologists and researchers were contacted for training on new technology (IT) which was unknown to most of the participants with the back ground of PhD. They were trained through several workshops organizing in universities at different cities. The Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) joined the IT program with technology and finance. Lots of barriers we had to face in organizing the workshops. There were social, local, gender and other problems. Different strategies were adopted to make the programs a success which I would like to share in the event. The program concept were spreading day by day by the women scientists who were trained by the AAIT experts. An excellent network of women scientists, technologists, researchers, science girl-students of all levels including the remote girls of Bangladesh and abroad have been developed through this initiative.</p>

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 <h3>Nathan Freitas</h3>
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-<p>Nathan Freitas leads the Guardian Project, an open-source mobile security software project, and directs technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society.</p>
+<p>Nathan Freitas leads the Guardian Project, an open-source mobile security software project, and directs technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Wind Farm: People-Powered Nearby Networks</h3>
+<p>Wind is a metaphor for the untapped communication potential that is all around us. In nature, wind can manifest as a slight breeze, or a powerful gale. It can gently spread the seeds of life, or a become a fearful gale that moves the sea. Wind can carry a message for miles, even around the world. Wind can be harnessed and turned into energy, and it is that energy which inspires possibilities. In our vision of a future of network communication, Wind is a way to describe the ability to connect and share digitally, that is not the Internet, and not the Web, but some place new, one that is right in the air around us.</p>
+
+<p>The Wind Farm workshop is an opportunity to facilitate a basic vision and metaphor for many groups to all work within. It is a starting point, not a standard, an intervention to create a dialogue, shared terminology and a shared narrative of how, who, and what we expect people to do when they have a super-computer in their pocket, but no signal to communicate by.</p>
+
+<p>In the workshop, we will work to find common ground between our various efforts in non-Internet, nearby, and "mesh" communication systems. We will hear from everyday people, activists, aid workers, and others who have direct experience being and working in places where all traditional communications are not available. We will have the chance to share with each other our coolest, cutting edge demos and/or our actually shipping, production ready products. Finally, we will expand our theoretical discussions from into hands-on, "live action" game situations, where we can see how different apps, tools, prototypes, and services fare when put in context of real situations.</p>
+
+<p>This Wind Farm event builds on an "Internet Blackout Simulation Event" held in 2014 in New York at Eyebeam, and Wind Farm 0 held at Harvard in May 2015.</p>
+<p>More information:<br/>
+<ul>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://medium.com/@n8fr8/if-there-was-suddenly-no-internet-what-would-we-do-9bf9a00e07cc" target="_blank">If there was suddenly no Internet, what would we do?</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="http://eyebeam.org/events/eyebeam-square-an-internet-blackout-simulation-event" target="_blank">Eyebeam Square: An Internet Blackout Simulation Event</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/10/5794406/what-do-you-do-when-the-internet-turns-off" target="_blank">Your survival guide for an internet blackout</a>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		<a href="https://talk.developersquare.net/t/wind-farm-0-people-powered-nearby-networks-event-harvard-may-15-16/48" target="_blank">Wind Farm 0: People-Powered Nearby Networks Event @ Harvard, May 15-16</a>
+	</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>No experience necessary!</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Bring your own tablet or smartphone</p>
+
+<p>If you want to bring your own PirateBox to the workshop, and you don't already have one, you can find out <a href="http://piratebox.cc/openwrt:diy" target="_blank">how to build one</a> here ahead of time.</p>
+
+<p>This step is not necessary! Just a fun extra if you felt like it.</p>

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 <h3>Nick Briz</h3>
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-<p>hi, my name is nick briz && 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 ( GLI.TC/H, NO-MEDIA, etc ) && teach on these topix ( SAIC, Marwen, www ) && produce work on these topix ( independently && commercially w/Branger_Briz ). my work's been shown internationally ( FILE Media Arts Festival, the Images Festival, the Museum of Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. ) && i've been featured in on/off-line publications around the world ( VICE, Rhizome.org, Fast Company, El Mundo, Neural, etc. ). my work is distributed through Video Out Distribution as well as openly and freely on the web.</p>
+<p>hi, my name is nick briz && 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 ( GLI.TC/H, NO-MEDIA, etc ) && teach on these topix ( SAIC, Marwen, www ) && produce work on these topix ( independently && commercially w/Branger_Briz ). my work's been shown internationally ( FILE Media Arts Festival, the Images Festival, the Museum of Moving Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. ) && i've been featured in on/off-line publications around the world ( VICE, Rhizome.org, Fast Company, El Mundo, Neural, etc. ). my work is distributed through Video Out Distribution as well as openly and freely on the web.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Probe Kit</h3>
+<p>Probe Kit is a satirical “amateur data collection” kit, which makes the process of collecting and contextualizing the wireless network data of the people around you trivially easy. Probe Kit is critical software art developed to illustrate how simple it is to collect personal network data and how much can be inferred from that data. Sarcastically pitched as an “amateur data collector kit”, Probe Kit turns your wifi card into a “net” that catches data fluttering out of the wireless devices of the people around you.</p>

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 <p>Noah Emrich</p>
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-<p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+<p>VSOON is a design research studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Our most recent project, <a href="http://www.datacafe.biz" target="_blank">www.datacafe.biz</a>, talks about human data interaction and questions the inherent value of your own data footprint.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../chris-fussner/">Chris Fussner</a></h2>
+<h3>The Importance of Soft Infrastructure</h3>
+
+<p>We will be discussing the human element in developing alternative communication networks, primarily community mesh networks. Looking at importance of local soft infrastructures in establishing and sustaining networks. Drawing from our 3 month journey, experiences and insights as non technical people diving into mesh networks in NYC and beyond.</p>

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-<p>Oliver Fisher</p>
+<p>Oliver Fisher</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Decentralized Peer To Peer Social Networks</h3>
+<p>I'd like to present a decentralized peer to peer social network I have been working on. I'll first talk about the two underlying open source projects: cjdns and ipfs. Specifically the flaws in the current internet these projects seek to address and their proposed solutions. Then I will give a live demo of my project to show what is possible with these next generation protocols. If time permits I can talk about NYC Mesh and our group effort to build a wireless mesh network in the city.</p>

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 <h3>Paige Peterson</h3>
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-<p>While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.</p>
+<p>While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Security &amp; Privacy in Mesh Networks</h3>
+<p>This will be a presentation on various security and privacy considerations in mesh networks and community networks on a high level. It will touch on current lack of anonymity and security of users and data within community networks, the resulting potential for censorship and current efforts to provide solutions.</p>

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 <img src="pedro.png" />
 <p>Pedro G. C. Oliveira is a Brazilian Art Director and Interactive Designer based in New York City, currently a research resident at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in NYU. His work history combines experiences in visual-effects, graphic design and motion graphics, interfaces and applications, interactive installations and code-generated art pieces.</p>
 
-<p>It is his strong belief, that creative solutions should be merged with technological resources and information not only in the name of innovation, but also to stimulate human potential and to improve human relations.</p>
+<p>It is his strong belief, that creative solutions should be merged with technological resources and information not only in the name of innovation, but also to stimulate human potential and to improve human relations.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Appropriating Technologies for Protests of the Future</h3>
+<p>The number of technologies used by authorities during protests are growing year after year.</p>
+
+<p>Mass surveillance has become ubiquitous, personal devices are being used as weapons against their owners, the hyper-militarization of law enforcement is widespread and the use of long range acoustic devices, active denial systems and stingrays have become commonplace as governments attempt to suppress dissent and monitor their citizens.</p>
+
+<p>How can the global community retain the right to free speech and public assembly in a safe and effective manner? How can we level the technological playing field for activists and the general population?</p>
+
+<p>Backslash is a series of functional devices designed for protests and riots of the future. Created through the lens of critical design, Backslash aims to retain the right to connect in protest sites through disruptive innovation and the creative appropriation of existing technologies. The range of devices include a smart bandana for embedding hidden messages and public keys, independently networked wearable devices, personal blackbox devices to register abuse of law enforcement and fast deployment routers for off grid communication.</p>
+
+<p>Political, social and technological conditions vary immensely from country to country. Not every protest is like Hong Kong where the average protester has 3 personal devices connected to the internet. A one size fits all solution to these dynamic situations is impractical. This really highlights the significance of community driven design and the importance of inciting this discourse with the global tech community. We recognize that creative and transdisciplinary approach at local hackerspaces and fab labs are uniquely capable of engineering innovative solutions that best fit the needs of their immediate community.</p>
+
+<p>–In protests of the future, how will the underground fight back?</p>

speakers/rachel-odwyer/index.html

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 <p>I'm the leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association, a group that showcases individuals working across art, hacktivism and technology <a href="http://www.data.ie" target="_blank">www.data.ie</a>. I organise the openhere festival on the social, political and technical issues surrounding the digital commons. 2012 focused on disruptive telecommunications; 2014 on open source hardware, open source ecology and open source value <a href="http://www.openhere.data.ie" target="_blank">www.openhere.data.ie</a>. I am also a core member of the P2P Foundation where I contribute to research in alternative currencies and coordinate the P2P academic research network.</p>
 
-<p>I speak, write and organise workshops around topics such as the political economy of communications, the digital commons, disruptive telecommunications, open spectrum and more recently money, distributed infrastructures and the blockchain. Here’s a project I coordinated to make a fully open mobile network in Dublin City <a href="http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500" target="_blank">http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500</a>. As well as academic publications, I am a regular contributor to Neural a magazine of media art, hacktivism and critical internet cultures <a href="http://neural.it" target="_blank">http://neural.it</a> and the Commons Transition blog <a href="http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/</a> Some of my recent talks and publications are here <a href="https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer" target="_blank">https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer</a>.</p>
+<p>I speak, write and organise workshops around topics such as the political economy of communications, the digital commons, disruptive telecommunications, open spectrum and more recently money, distributed infrastructures and the blockchain. Here’s a project I coordinated to make a fully open mobile network in Dublin City <a href="http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500" target="_blank">http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500</a>. As well as academic publications, I am a regular contributor to Neural a magazine of media art, hacktivism and critical internet cultures <a href="http://neural.it" target="_blank">http://neural.it</a> and the Commons Transition blog <a href="http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/</a> Some of my recent talks and publications are here <a href="https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer" target="_blank">https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer</a>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>This band is your band, this band is my band...</h3>
+<p>This talk is about understanding spectrum as a commons and exploring what recent proposals for shared spectrum really mean for the future of open networks. The talk will be structured around the following questions:</p>
+
+<ol>
+	<li>What exactly is Electromagnetic Spectrum and how is currently managed? How, historically, did electromagnetic wavelengths something that could be owned, controlled and commodified? Who owns the spectrum and what privileges does ownership give in terms of controlling communications and extracting value? I’ll look at examples here i.e. how ownership of spectrum underpins a mobile advertising revenue model in the Global North, while in developing markets we’re seeing a whole range of new business models around control of the spectrum such as airtime trading and mobile money.</li>
+	<li>How can we think of spectrum as a commons? (And why should we?)<br/>
+What is a commons? How have innovations in Wi-Fi, VoIP, mesh networking and open GSM networks illustrated the possibility for governing the spectrum as a commons? What kinds of technologies in cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access facilitate this approach?</li>
+	<li>How is the management of spectrum changing?<br/> 
+Today an exaflood of mobile data is threatening the current economic consolidation of spectrum. These are leading to proposals for dynamic spectrum access techniques and greater spectrum sharing not only from open spectrum advocates but from digital policy.</li>
+	<li>What are the implications of these changes for the spectrum commons? For open spectrum advocates this can look very promising, Where Wi-Fi afforded community networks, an increase in unlicensed spectrum and DySpan suggests possibilities for new kinds of networks and commons spectrum. However, just as the sharing economy is proving problematic in areas such as real estate and precarious work, we need to look closely at the implications of these sharing proposals, particularly at the new kinds of algorithmic control that accompany shared spectrum.</li>
+</ol>

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 <h3>Rob Ray</h3>
 <img src="robray-trapdoors-headshot-network.jpg" />
-<p>Rob Ray creates feral installations, chapbooks, videos and sound compositions for public and outdoor spaces. His interactive disorienteering guide, GET LOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK and exhibited at Conflux 2012 in New York and the Tracing Mobility festival in Berlin, Germany. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founding curator of the DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL, USA. Rob performs as AUGH! in the streets and as I Love Presets with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom.  Rob has launched the EXOSKELETON project in Los Angeles this year. He is on Twitter <a href="https://www.twitter.com/robdeadtech" target="_blank">@robdeadtech</a></p>
+<p>Rob Ray creates feral installations, chapbooks, videos and sound compositions for public and outdoor spaces. His interactive disorienteering guide, GET LOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK and exhibited at Conflux 2012 in New York and the Tracing Mobility festival in Berlin, Germany. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founding curator of the DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL, USA. Rob performs as AUGH! in the streets and as I Love Presets with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom.  Rob has launched the EXOSKELETON project in Los Angeles this year. He is on Twitter <a href="https://www.twitter.com/robdeadtech" target="_blank">@robdeadtech</a></p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../adam-rothstein/">Adam Rothstein</a></h2>
+<h3>A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club</h3>
+<p>In 2016 a disaster response network of trained radio users sporting an ideal budget of $0 per person was born. While amateur radio existed through most of the 20th Century, by the 21st century it had become a bourgeois hobby for older white men. The established purpose of amateur radio in the regulations of the FCC had always been to set up a voluntary interest in radios for use in emergency (both environmental and military), but with the rise of commercial Internet radio networks (Wi-Fi) and cheap long-haul telecommunications networks, ham radio shacks became a collection of exclusive and fetishized gadgets. Younger people drifted towards the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>But in 2016, emergency came calling. A group of three coastal superstorms flooded most of the West Coast, and left the population without infrastructure for weeks. A small, previously unknown group calling themselves “Solarpunks” sprang up, to fill the communication gap. Using a number of levels of financial commitment--$0, $10, and $40--they began training a culture of youth hungry for the basic skills of radio and electronics, and then letting them train others. They descended upon the rubble to pull out bits of aluminum for antennas, drying out coaxial cable, and rescuing batteries and stereo speakers from stranded vehicles. Using the disabled tech of a failed infrastructure, they began connecting themselves into a network of learning and doing. The old-guard hams had all fled to high grounds weeks ago, but the Solarpunks remained, continued their modifications and grew in numbers.</p>
+
+<p>We will detail the speculative future-history of the Solarpunk Ham Radio Club and its method of spreading the use of radio with no financial investment. It took amateur radio back from a toxic commodity culture, just when it was needed most. The Solarpunks couldn’t  duplicate the permanent infrastructure that needs billions of dollars in funding. But with a foothold based on a resilient jugaad rather than expensive gadgets, they were able to find a way of teaching each other, that made their network resilient in a way that money could not.</p>

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 <h3>Roel Roscam Abbing</h3>
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-<p>Roel Roscam Abbing (1990, NL) is an artist and researcher with strong interest for the issues and cultures surrounding networked computation. In his practice he has worked and collaborated on projects about the internet's infrastructure, DIY techniques and wireless community networks. He holds an MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Fine Arts BA (Hon) from the Willem De Kooning Academy. Currently he teaches Digital Craft at the Willem de Kooning Academy.</p>
+<p>Roel Roscam Abbing (1990, NL) is an artist and researcher with strong interest for the issues and cultures surrounding networked computation. In his practice he has worked and collaborated on projects about the internet's infrastructure, DIY techniques and wireless community networks. He holds an MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Fine Arts BA (Hon) from the Willem De Kooning Academy. Currently he teaches Digital Craft at the Willem de Kooning Academy.</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../dennis-de-bel/">Dennis de Bel</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: Packet Radio Networks</h3>
+<p>Before there was the internet there was a wireless internet. In this (non-FCC approved) workshop we will look back to ALOHANET, AMPRNET and examine the phenomenon of packet radio. The workshop will be a hands-on, interactive demonstration of the possibilities of packet radio and the workflow/toolchain. We will go into both historical and contemporary examples and try to set up a little network on the spot.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will learn how to utilize commercial walkie-talkie radios and free software to transmit and receive TCP/IP over HF or UHF radio. In other words, internet via walkie-talkie, because yes, that's possible. Looking beyond the usual "When Shit Hits The Fan Scenario's" we will discuss the true potential and shortcomings of these 6km+ range wireless 'routers'. Depending on the wishes of the participants we can either do a demo and go through the steps and requirements of setting this up for themselves or help set up participant's own equipment to create one big offline network.</p>
+
+<p>Participants will get a small publication that is both an introduction into the concept as well as a practical guide on how set up your internet over walkie talkie. Each participant will get one copy as a reference etc for when they want to do their own experiments.</p>
+
+<p>No experience is necessary.</p>
+
+<h3>Materials</h3>
+<p>Please bring a laptop, preferably with Linux installed, a USB flash drive ~4GB, and $9 for additional materials prepared by the workshop leaders.</p>
+
+<h3>Extra materials to bring if you would like (but are not required)</h3>
+<ul>
+	<li>UHF walkie talkie's if you already have some available.</li>
+	<li>'Baofeng UV-5r' (in yellow, blue or red)</li>
+	<li>2.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm mono jack plug</li>
+	<li>3.5mm TNC plug (4 pole)</li>
+	<li>Audiocable (2 pole)</li>
+</ul>

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 <p>She is co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation, a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow and an Associate at CoLAB. Sarah sits on the advisory board for Tech For Good Global and co-facilitates the Personal Data and Trust Design Group at the Digital Catapult in London.</p>
 
-<p>Sarah has worked with a number of organisations on technology and digital design including NHS England and Government Digital Service, as well as for a variety of prestigious brands such as Dior and Apple. She regularly speaks at conferences and technology events on the future of the Internet, digital citizenship and how decentralised technologies can inform alternative products and services.</p>
+<p>Sarah has worked with a number of organisations on technology and digital design including NHS England and Government Digital Service, as well as for a variety of prestigious brands such as Dior and Apple. She regularly speaks at conferences and technology events on the future of the Internet, digital citizenship and how decentralised technologies can inform alternative products and services.</p>
+
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Alternet</h3>
+<p>I will give insight in to how a decentralised approach could radically
+reshape the governance and control of the digital infrastructures we
+use everyday: How can decentralised technologies provide a unique way
+of building scalable, trusted networks and systems that can, where
+appropriate, be owned by everyone? What if these technologies
+contributed to a <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=PM&subtype=XB&htmlfid=GBE03620USEN" target="_blank">democratic Internet of Things</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/05/digital-public-space-britain-missing-national-institution" target="_blank">a digital commons</a> and <a href="http://www.sarahtgold.co.uk/a-brief-future-of-citizenship" target="_blank">new forms of citizenship</a>? What are the opportunities for disruption? I will talk about the opportunities presented by decentralised technologies, particularly how they can inform more democratic futures (not only mesh networks, but blockchain and hardware like the Tesla powerwall) and what new politics these systems might bring.</p>
+
+<p>A year ago I designed the Alternet, a proposal for a civic network
+where individuals can own their own data through data licences. The
+work I continue to develop, builds on this project - critically
+engaging with how technically and culturally we can make social impact for a future where we are considered as citizens, not just consumers. </p>

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 <h3>Sébastien Pierre</h3>
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-<p>Originally from France, I trained in both software engineering and design before moving to Canada 9 years ago. My interests span activism, politics, museography, information design, open data and technology. I have been publishing and contributing to open-source since 1999, and I believe above all else in in participation, free sharing of information, and the power of communities. I co-founded the local open data movement in Montréal and information design studio, FFunction, which is now in its seventh year. More recently, I started exploring how offline networks can change our understanding of information sharing, and how it can be applied to locative art and new media. I live and work in Montréal.</p>
+<p>Originally from France, I trained in both software engineering and design before moving to Canada 9 years ago. My interests span activism, politics, museography, information design, open data and technology. I have been publishing and contributing to open-source since 1999, and I believe above all else in in participation, free sharing of information, and the power of communities. I co-founded the local open data movement in Montréal and information design studio, FFunction, which is now in its seventh year. More recently, I started exploring how offline networks can change our understanding of information sharing, and how it can be applied to locative art and new media. I live and work in Montréal.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Locative new media: connecting the physical with the digital</h3>
+<p><a href="http://invisibleislands.org/" target="_blank">Invisible Islands</a> is a locative new media project that poses a simple question: "what happens when information is anchored in the physical space?" Using offline networks powered by Raspberry PIs and open-source software, the Islands create a digital overlay that is only accessible at a specific location. Because they are disconnected from the Internet, the Islands create a surveillance-free data space for the community to exchange and interact on a social and creative level.</p>
+
+<p>Invisible Islands was developed and deployed for the first time in 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark. The project was hosted by the Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction at Aarhus University and spread throughout the city in various urban sites, allowing for an initial exploration of offline networks deployment in urban space.</p>
+
+<p>In the Montréal iteration of Invisible Islands in 2015, which was supported by the National Film Board, I worked with Canadian writer Daniel Canty to create a site-specific narrative where fragments of a story are woven throughout several points of the city's Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal's cultural center and former red-light district.</p>
+
+<p>Many questions and challenges pop up when deploying digital devices in the urban space, from the legal grey-area to citizen engagement and how projects of this nature fit into contemporary discourse about locative art, site-specificity, activism, spatial annotation, place-based storytelling and mobile gameplay. In this talk, I'll share thoughts about my journey through offline networks, both from a technological, creative and societal standpoint.</p>

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 <p>Curious World:<br/>
 <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/29-shuli-hallak-visualizing/id977155003?i=349459504&mt=2">Visualizing The Internet</a></p>
 
-<p>Shuli has a B.A. in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.F.A in Photography from The School of Visual Arts in NYC.</p>
+<p>Shuli has a B.A. in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.F.A in Photography from The School of Visual Arts in NYC.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Trust Yourself More</h3>
+<p>The power of the Internet is derived from its intangible, invisible properties. The ability of information to scale and traverse in an instant is transformative, and the application of that power can be used in multiple ways, some good and some not so good. Because we can not see these systems that we rely on — the hardware (routers, switches, data centers, fiber cables), and invisible properties (spectrum, wireless networks, protocol) — we are as a whole, left in the dark and unaware of how our own data exists in these networks. We often take a breath and hope the entities that we are “agreeing” with (“trusting”) will do good.  And we are presented with less than desirable options: convenience or privacy, but we can’t have both. Really though, if we can’t see it, we can’t fully trust it.</p>
+
+<p>But what if we could see how the Internet works? What if we could see both the physical and intangible?I’ll show and discuss the physical infrastructure of the Internet, which I’ve been photographing for several years — parts that are normally completely off limits to the public — and explain with visuals how some of the intangible properties work.</p>
+
+<p>If we can see the Internet as a whole, we can build visual concepts and language around it, and we can understand where to place our trust. We can understand where and how common infrastructure breaches happen, such as Prism. We can begin to understand how our data is used as a commodity. And we can understand that sometimes, trusting ourselves is worth more than convenience.</p>

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 Montreal, Canada. Her work explores the linkages between technology and
 activism through ethnographic studies and projects. She co-founded a
 feminist mobile hacklab in Montreal: Femhack and is involved in creating
-a feminist server managed by a feminist tech collective.</p>
+a feminist server managed by a feminist tech collective.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Anti-Colonial Hacking: The Case Study of An Autonomous Encrypted
+Communication Network Developed During the Struggle Against Apartheid in
+South Africa</h3>
+<p>In the 1980s, freedom fighters and hackers from South Africa built an
+autonomous encrypted communication network that allowed activists
+infiltrated on the ground in South Africa to communicate with the senior
+leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) based in Lusaka,
+Zambia via London. The encrypted communication network was set up as
+part of Operation Vula to attempt to launch a people's war and
+ultimately liberate a people's from apartheid. The ingenuousness of the
+encrypted communication system is such that it used an assemblage of
+technologies including computers, algorithms, tape recorders, acoustic
+modem couplers, the international telephone system, among others to
+adapt to the difficult context and condition on the ground whether it
+was the ubiquitous surveillance by the police state, the lack of
+infrastructure or the lack of electricity. This hidden chapter of
+history sheds light on one of the most exciting, but untold story of
+what I call anti-colonial hacking.</p>
+
+<p>This story is significant for multiple reasons. By shedding light to
+this hidden history, my presentation will help enlarge the goals,
+aspirations and political nature of the assemblage of transnational
+technological and communication networks. It will also allow to give
+credit to a continent of the world, Africa that is often eclipsed from
+the limelight of technological "innovation" and hackerdom. Moreover, it
+will create solidarities between movements with different situated
+knowledge, positionalities and contexts without suppressing the
+significant and important history of each of them. The desire to craft
+an autonomous and non-commercial encrypted infrastructure to bring about
+liberation to a people is reminiscent of the work of today's tech
+activists. This history fits in the history of tech activism and should
+be recognized as such to open up the possibilities of thinking about the
+use of crypto and the assemblage of variant forms of technologies for
+liberation struggles.</p>

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 <h3>Stephanie Hyland</h3>
-<p>Stephanie Hyland is a PhD candidate at Cornell University where she is applying machine learning to biomedical data. Originally from Ireland, she studied theoretical physics at Trinity College Dublin and mathematics at Cambridge University. Her interest in information freedom and personal privacy led her to co-found Ireland's first student-run Pirate Party in 2010, which runs one of Ireland's only Tor exits. She current resides in Manhattan, where she is now involved with CryptoParty NYC.</p>
+<p>Stephanie Hyland is a PhD candidate at Cornell University where she is applying machine learning to biomedical data. Originally from Ireland, she studied theoretical physics at Trinity College Dublin and mathematics at Cambridge University. Her interest in information freedom and personal privacy led her to co-found Ireland's first student-run Pirate Party in 2010, which runs one of Ireland's only Tor exits. She current resides in Manhattan, where she is now involved with CryptoParty NYC.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting with <a href="../caroline-sinders/">Caroline Sinders</a> and <a href="../david-huerta/">David Huerta</a> </h2>
+<h3>Blogging in the Dark[net]</h3>
+<p>Hosting your own blog is an excellent first step in declaring independence from Google/Twitter/etc but still leaves some dangers in the lack of anonymity inherent to IP addresses and DNS names. Using Tor onion services, you can say stuff on the internet without randos creeping on your personal info and join the Tor ~DARKNET~. Stop by to learn how!</p>

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-<p>Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer critical of the public perception and access to wireless spectrums. He is a 2015 Data and Society fellow where his research is focused on the technology and politics surrounding the radio frequency spectrum</p>
+<p>Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer critical of the public perception and access to wireless spectrums. He is a 2015 Data and Society fellow where his research is focused on the technology and politics surrounding the radio frequency spectrum</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>SDR-101 : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the RF Spectrum</h3>
+<p>Radio waves have been harnessed for communication for over a century. Until a few years ago the high cost of entry to this field limited the avenues of non-commercial exploration and research. As the price of software defined radios (SDRs) has decreased the quantity (and quality) of open source software and tools that support this hardware has increased tremendously.</p>
+
+<p>Using these devices it is possible to explore communication networks that were previously off limits. These include air traffic control, weather satellites, GSM, and many more! This talk hopes to make SDRs exciting for the uninitiated with an explanation of what they are, how they work, and how they can be used for creative purposes . We will use the FCC allocated radio spectrum as our playground and explore the waves!</p>
+
+<h2>... and presenting with <a href="../ingrid-burrington/">Ingrid Burrington</a></h2>
+<h3>Workshop: I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG about TLDs</h3>
+<p>No experience necessary, no extra materials needed.</p>
+<p>Domain names are where the politics, poetics, and peculiarities of the web express themselves in often the most direct and clever ways. But even the most active domain name hoarder might not really understand how the Domain Name System works, why certain TLDs exist, and how they at times become an arena where real-world geopolitical conflicts play out online.</p>
+
+<p>This is a workshop about understanding the technical structures behind the weird and deeply political world of domain names via a live-action roleplaying game. We'll begin with an overview of DNS, ICANN, the TLD creation process, engage in some roleplaying scenarios based on real-world incidents in ICANN history, and brainstorm alternative models to the current model for network naming conventions. Somewhere between Risk, D&amp;D, Model UN, and TRON.</p>

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-<p>Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer working at intersection of art, engineering and ecology. She makes eccentric engineering, reimagining quotidian technologies to address their politics. Her work takes the form of site specific interventions, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information representations. She is currently a resident at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, she also does things at the School for Poetic Computation, and is full-time faculty at SUNY Purchase. In 2013, was awarded an early career fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.</p>
+<p>Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer working at intersection of art, engineering and ecology. She makes eccentric engineering, reimagining quotidian technologies to address their politics. Her work takes the form of site specific interventions, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information representations. She is currently a resident at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, she also does things at the School for Poetic Computation, and is full-time faculty at SUNY Purchase. In 2013, was awarded an early career fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Eccentric WiFi: Networks with others</h3>
+<p><em>Media are not only devices of information; they are also agencies of order.<br/>
+John Durham Peters, 2015</em></p>
+
+<p>Technologies are dynamic agents that coproduce our environments and social structures through material, psychological and (more recently) algorithmic interactions. Inevitably they embody the agendas and priorities of their makers. Yet if we are to adequately address urgent contemporary challenges like environmental destabilization and global inequality, both of which are tightly bound to trajectories of technological development, it is imperative that we re-think our technical systems and infrastructures to address the agendas of those currently outside of their scope of operation. I call work that responds to this challenge – eccentric engineering. Eccentric engineering sees experimental systems built with atypical design agendas and that restructure connections between humans and non-humans fostering mutual relationships. It approaches infrastructure not as a service but as a negotiation and attempts to privilege empathy over efficiency, co-dependence over independence and intimacy over autonomy.</p>
+
+<p>The Radiotropism project applies an eccentric design approach to network technologies. As our lives become increasingly networked, we have developed a profound sensitivity to wireless topographies. We are radiotropic – we carefully prepare for the quiet zone of the subway and adjust our behaviors in response to subtle fluctuations in wireless signal strengths. The Radiotropism project probes this sensitivity, leveraging it in different ways. The project consists of a series of experimental WiFi routers that attempt to tie their user's network experience to natural phenomena in novel ways. This project explores the potential of creative work to intervene not only at an informational level, but at the level of infrastructure itself.</p>

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 <h3>Yifu Guo</h3>
-<p>I had the chance to work with OWS Tech Ops in Zuccotti park to set up the local internet infrastructure. spends most of my days now doing data analysis for financial institutions and network monitoring for p2p networks.</p>
+<p>I had the chance to work with OWS Tech Ops in Zuccotti park to set up the local internet infrastructure. spends most of my days now doing data analysis for financial institutions and network monitoring for p2p networks.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>Presenting</h2>
+<h3>Be your own NSA: Regain IO control</h3>
+<img src="687474703a2f2f6e616461762e6d656469612e6d69742e6564752f75706c6f6164732f50726f6a656374732f736f63616e5f6e6574776f726b5f737461636b5f3630395f3438302e706e67.jpg" width="50%" />
+<p>This is what the internet infrastructure looks like today, and for most of us, our interactions with the stack never falls below the Application layer.</p>
+
+<p>I want to bring light to the questions like,<br/>
+What is chrome doing when you are visiting a website?<br/>
+What is skype doing on your computer when you make a call?</p>
+
+<p>Show off some new equipment in network DIY, e.g. self contained battery powered openWRT routers.</p>
+
+<p>The goal is to educate and show people how to be their own gate keepers of their network, by man-in-the-middle attacking themselves to see their own network traffic and grant control of what type of data you should and should not allow.</p>