Radical/Networks

October 24-25, 2015
NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY

Saturday 10/24

Town Square East Town Square West Room 806 Room 845 Room 811
9:00 - 10:00 Registration + Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:30 - 11:30 ‘This band is your band, this band is my band...’
Rachel Dwyer
NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network
Brian Hall, Julien Deswaef, Dan Grinkevich
Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks Workshop
Dawn Walker
11:30 - 12:00 Eccentric WiFi: Networks with others
Tega Brain
Over the top networks, a history of building new systems on the wreckage of the old
Edward Vielmetti
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 SDR-101 : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the RF Spectrum
Surya Mattu
The Importance of Soft Infrastructure
Chris Fussner + Noah Emrich
How was your day? Ambient Networks Workshop
Carrie Kengle + Bruno Kruse
Packet Radio Networks Workshop
Dennis de Bel + Roel Roscam Abbing
13:30 - 14:50 I Will Follow You Into the Dark[net]
David Huerta + Caroline Sinders + Stephanie Hyland
A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club
Adam Rothstein + Rob Ray
14:50 - 15:30 Ghost Networks
Ingrid Burrington
Appropriating Technologies for Protests of Futures
Pedro Oliveria
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 MAC as a Place and Landscape
Garry Ing
Democracy Through Grassroot Local Networks
Joe Chasinga
There Is No Cloud: Dumping Dropbox to Create a Personal Anti-Cloud For Cheap (Workshop)
Joshua Kopstein
16:40 - 17:10 Dan Phiffer Public transportation GPS Tracking
Epic Jefferson
17:10 - 18:20 GSM For Good
Benedetta Piantella
Bibliotecha (until 17:40)
Andre Castro, Lucia Dossin
18:20 - 19:00 Security & Privacy in Mesh Networks
Paige Peterson
Lightning Sessions
19:00 Closing Remarks

Sunday 10/25

Town Square East Town Square West Room 806 Room 845 Room 811
9:00 - 10:00 Registration + Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:30 - 11:30 On being the alternative in the absence of alternatives
Keith Whyte (Rhizomatica)
Invisible Islands
Locative New Media: Connecting the physical with the digital
Sébastien Pierre
I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG About TLDs
Surya Mattu + Ingrid Burrington
Erica Kermani + Miki Foster
11:30 - 12:00 Trust Yourself More
Shuli Hallak
Ownership Incentives & Network Evolution
Jesse Tweedle
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:10 Alternet
Sarah T. Gold
Lightning Sessions Bibliotecha Workshop
Andre Castro, Lucia Dossin + Michaela Lakova
Josh King
Commotion Workshop
Windfarms Workshop
Nathan Freitas
14:10 - 14:50 Bringing Connectivity to Rural Areas in Bangladesh
Dr. Lutfor Rahman
The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition and
Playful Mesh: Site-Specific Game to Visualize Network
Ansh Patel
14:50 - 15:30 In The Final Days Of The WWW
Dennis de Bel + Roel Roscam Abbing
Decentralized Peer To Peer Social Networks
Oliver Fischer
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:10 Anti-Colonial Hacking
Sophie Toupin
Probe Kit (till 16:30)
Nick Briz + Brannon Dorsey
16:30 - 17:10 Signal Strength + The Community Phonebooth
Amelia Marzec
17:10 - 18:10 Stupid, Messy Networks
Jochen Maria Weber
Be your own NSA: Regain IO control. (till 17:30)
Yifu Guo
17:30 - 18:10 MTOS, Federated, Public Key Secured, Social Communications Infrastructure
Andrew Davis
18:10 - 19:00 Crowd-Sourced Social Media Network Surveillance
Derek Curry + Jennifer Gradecki
Israeli Pirates
19:00 Closing Remarks