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2020:
- presenterID: xin
name: "Xin Xin"
+ bio: "Xin Xin is a Taiwanese / American artist and community organizer working at the intersection of technology, labor, and identity. Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They were the Director for Processing Community Day 2019, a worldwide initiative celebrating art, code, and diversity, and they currently serve on the advisory board for the Processing Foundation. Xin teaches at the New School as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design."
+ link: "http://xin-xin.info/"
+ linkDisplay: "xin-xin.info"
+ github: "xinemata"
+ twitter: "xinemata"
- presenterID: katina
name: "Katina Bitsicas"
+ bio: "Katina Bitsicas is a new media artist who utilizes video, photography, and performance in her art works. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show in New York, PULSE Art Fair in Miami Beach, HereArt in New York, and Art in Odd Places in Orlando. She received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Bacc from SACI in Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Assistant Professor of Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri."
+ link: http://www.katinabitsicas.com/
+ linkDisplay: katinabitsicas.com
+ github: bitsicask
- presenterID: nealt
name: "Neal Thomas"
+ bio: "Neal Thomas teaches communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. His research is focused at the intersection of critical social theory and computing technique, its central motivation being to better understand the impact that social technologies have upon the political imagination of deeply-mediatized societies."
+ link: http://hivemedia.ca/
+ linkDisplay: hivemedia.ca
+ twitter: lathemason
+ github: lathemason
- presenterID: jackson
name: "Jackson Ammenheuser"
+ bio: "Megan Jedrysiak and Jackson Ammenheuser are a Chicago based animation duo. Since 2014, they have been making experimental shorts and commissioned animations together as AppleButter Animated. Their experimental film and installation work has screened in the United States and internationally. Their creative process is rooted in subconscious play versus conscious editing, thriftiness, and collaboration."
+ link: https://www.applebutteranimated.com/
+ linkDisplay: applebutteranimated.com
+ github: craigwuffles
- presenterID: megan
name: "Megan Jedrysiak"
+ bio: "Megan Jedrysiak and Jackson Ammenheuser are a Chicago based animation duo. Since 2014, they have been making experimental shorts and commissioned animations together as AppleButter Animated. Their experimental film and installation work has screened in the United States and internationally. Their creative process is rooted in subconscious play versus conscious editing, thriftiness, and collaboration."
+ link: https://www.applebutteranimated.com/
+ linkDisplay: applebutteranimated.com
- presenterID: brian
name: "Brian Sutherland"
+ bio: 'Brian Sutherland is a PhD Candidate researching the sustainability of new communications networks at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information in the Knowledge Media Design Institute/Semaphore group. He is also an experienced lecturer in UofT’s Biomedical Communications program—art as applied to medicine, where he lectures about e-learning, critical making, wearable health within digital networks, and effective information and data visualization. Brian’s dissertation work, in progress, is "Energy Harvesting Information Systems".'
+ link: https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/brian-sutherland/
+ linkDisplay: ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/brian-sutherland
+ twitter: bksutherland
+ github: bksutherland
- presenterID: edith
name: "Edith Viau"
+ bio: "Edith (Montréal, Qc) is an artist interested in systems as a medium. With an academic background in mathematics and finance, she spends her creative time exploring how to systematize creative processes. She is interested in how uncertainty manifests itself in different field of life, and how financial markets deals with this uncertainty. Founder of ARTificial MTL, she was a participant in the 2020 MUTEK AI Art Lab held in Montreal."
+ link: "https://eviau.github.io/"
+ linkDisplay: "eviau.github.io"
+ github: "eviau"
+ twitter: "finartcialist"
- presenterID: liat
name: "Liat Berdugo"
+ bio: "Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder and curator of the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art salon; an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive; and an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. In her past life she was probably an aerobics instructor."
+ link: http://www.liatberdugo.com/
+ linkDisplay: liatberdugo.com
+ link2: http://heavyheavybreathing.com/48-Liat-Berdugo
+ linkDisplay2: heavyheavybreathing.com/48-Liat-Berdugo
+ twitter: whatliat
+ github: lberdugo
- presenterID: reunion
name: "ReUnion"
-
- - presenterID: brandon
- name: "Brandon Alvendia"
+ bio: "ReUnion is a network of independent collaborators of cross-cultural background and multi-disciplinary practices, who are exploring ideas and experimentation under the framework of ReUnion Network – a design prototype for civic implementation and research. ReUnion Network is mainly operating in The Netherlands and funded by Creative Industries Fund NL since 2018."
+ link: https://www.reunionnetwork.org/
+ linkDisplay: reunionnetwork.org
+ twitter: reunion_net
+ github: reunion-network
- presenterID: grant
name: "Grant Gallo"
+ bio: "Grant is a professional firmware developer and network engineer who spends his spare time hacking on microcontrollers, designing routing protocols, and (occasionally) shooting stop motion animations or making zines."
+ link: https://disaster.radio/
+ linkDisplay: disaster.radio
+ link2: https://peoplesopen.net/
+ link2: peoplesopen.net
+ github: paidforby
- presenterID: brady
name: "Brady Dale"
+ bio: "Brady Dale is a reporter at CoinDesk, who has previously written for Motherboard, Fortune, Ars Technica, the Columbia Journalism Review and others. David Floyd is a developer at Condé Nast who previously worked as a journalist at CoinDesk and Investopedia."
+ link: https://bradydale.com/
+ linkDisplay: bradydale.com
+ twitter: BradyDale
+ github: BradyDale
- presenterID: david
name: "David Floyd"
+ link: https://davidfloyd91.github.io/
+ linkDisplay: davidfloyd91.github.io
+ twitter: davidfloyd512
+ github: davidfloyd91
- presenterID: ulrich
name: "Ulrich Gehmann"
+ bio: "Based in Karlsruhe/Germany; Ulrich Gehmann is one of the founding members of Ideal Spaces Working Group, established 2015, which deals with conceptions and necessities of human space. His background is in humanist education, biology, anthropology and busiess administration. After his professional career in management and consultancy he studied History at University of Karlsruhe (KIT). During his studies at KIT, he founded of the journal New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, and led a 5 year-seminar on Social Formatting, together with Rolf-Ulrich Kunze. He currently researches and publishes on occidental mythology, ideal spaces and gestalt issues, and their impact on recent sociocultural reality."
+ link: https://www.idealspaces.org/
+ linkDisplay: www.idealspaces.org
+ twitter: Ideal_Spaces_
+ github: idealspaces
- presenterID: emoke
name: "Emőke Bada"
+ bio: "Emőke Bada is a media artist, who primarily works with still and moving images, but her experiments often lead her to other types of expression like text, experiences, objects and events. She is an MA graduate of the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Art and the Media Arts Culture Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (Danube University Krems, Aalborg University, City University of Hong Kong). Most of her life she has moved between continents and cultures, using these moves to expose herself to the world and in return unveil the world as she finds it. Through her work and travels she consistently finds herself in doorways and on thresholds between, cultures, processes and methods."
+ link: https://www.idealspaces.org/
+ linkDisplay: www.idealspaces.org
+ twitter: Ideal_Spaces_
+ github: idealspaces
- presenterID: alexander
name: "Alexander Cobleigh"
+ bio: "Alexander Cobleigh is a Malmö-based instigator of non-commercial projects, having created & finished 30+ projects over the past 8 years. His recent work is focused on getting user-friendly peer-to-peer projects out to the broader public; in this talk, he will be presenting his research into a trust-based capability management system called TrustNet."
+ link: https://cblgh.org/
+ linkDisplay: cblgh.org
+ twitter: cblgh
+ github: cblgh
- presenterID: eileen
name: "Eileen Wagner"
+ bio: "Eileen advises teams and organizations on UX design and research at Simply Secure. Her focus is on information architecture, content strategy, and interaction design--or anything that helps people make sense of complex technologies. She works with numerous projects in decentralization and security, and enjoys facilitating relationships between the builders and users of technology. Her background is in analytic philosophy and mathematical logic, and she won’t stop talking about demoing barbershop music."
+ link: https://decentpatterns.xyz/
+ linkDisplay: decentpatterns.xyz
+ twitter: bumblblu
+ github: bumbleblue
- presenterID: karissa
name: "Karissa McKelvey"
+ bio: "Karissa researches technical architecture design and its impact on usability, safety, and resilience. Her contributions to decentralized applications are depended upon by at-risk users including human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society activists living within repressive environments. Previously, she led user and developer experience for dat and hypercore, a decentralized data sharing tool and peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. Her background is in political sociology and data science, and she loves making weird musical art that touches your funny bone."
+ twitter: okdistribute
+ github: okdistribute
- presenterID: judith
name: "Judith Sönnicken"
-
- - presenterID: hillary
- name: "Hillary Predko"
+ bio: "Judith Sönnicken is an artist, quantum field athlete and ancient cosmologist. She holds an MA in Fine Arts (UDK Berlin) and certified in UX and Feng Shui. Her multidimensional practice implies objects, installations, VR, performance, biofield tuning and guided meditation. Her work was shown at Museu Geológico de Portugal/Lisbon, Green Art Gallery/Dubai, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/Yukon, The Institute of Jamais Vu/London, Cirrus Gallery/Los Angeles, Crane Arts Center/Philadelphia, NAVEL/Los Angeles, documenta14/Athens and 11th Gwangju Biennial."
+ link: "https://judithsun.space/"
+ linkDisplay: "judithsun.space"
+ link2: "http://hyperobjects.io/ "
+ linkDisplay2: "hyperobjects.io"
+ github: "hyperobjects-io"
- presenterID: jason
name: "Jason"
+ bio: "Jason Li is an independent designer, cartoonist and researcher working at the intersection of storytelling, technology and social change. His practice focuses on amplifying underrepresented voices, creating alternative media ecosystems, and making digital safety more accessible. He also serves as an editor at Paradise Systems, a publisher of exemplary comics from the US and China, and is a member of Zine Coop, an independent publishing collective in Hong Kong."
+ link: https://hongkonggong.com/
+ linkDisplay: hongkonggong.com
+ twitter: jasonli
+ github: hongkonggong
- presenterID: el
name: "E.L. Guerrero"
+ bio: "E.L. Guerrero is a new media artist and software developer. Their work involves thinking about the different ways we can use technology and other forms of media to form community “networks” that can live online and offline as a way of healing and repairing the land and the people who continue to be victims of colonization, imperialism, capitalism, and systemic abuse. As a first-generation Filipino immigrant, they look from the lens of both a diasporic and a local Philippine perspective. They are also a member of the creative studio Sibika & Kultura, that imagines and creates multidimensional experiences that enable the individual to become an agent of change in the current societal and political milieu."
+ twitter: thinkbulecount2
+ github: thinkbulecount2
- presenterID: ananda
name: "Ananda Gabo"
+ bio: "Ananda Gabo is an exhibiting artist and designer whose research based practice is currently exploring the intersections of technology driven crafting and community arts. They currently run Paocai Bio, a community bio group that focuses on the intersections of art and science through a sino historical lens as well as exploring sonic arts through open source toolmaking."
+ twitter: a__gabo
+ github: agronautics
- presenterID: sophie
name: "Sophie Dyer"
+ bio: "Sophie Dyer is a designer specialised in visual and open source investigations. She leads the Decoders project for Amnesty International's Crisis Evidence Lab. Previously, she worked with the remote casualty monitor, Airwars, to reconcile local claims of civilian harm with the US military's reporting. Sophie recently wrote the article What would A Feminist Open Source Investigation Look Like? Over the ether her call sign is M6NYX after the Greek goddess of the night. She co-edits Concrete Flux."
+ link: http://www.sophiedyer.net/
+ linkDisplay: "sophiedyer.net"
+ twitter: sophiecdyer
+ github: sophiedyer
- presenterID: sasha
name: "Sasha Engelmann"
+ bio: "Sasha Engelmann is a creative geographer whose research draws together environmental sensing practices, contemporary art and the politics of air and atmosphere. She is Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University of London, and a current fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Her book Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices will be published by Routledge in Autumn 2020. On the airwaves she is M6IOR."
+ link: http://www.sashaengelmann.com/
+ linkDisplay: "sashaengelmann.com"
+ twitter: sashacakes
+ github: sasha-intheair
- presenterID: craig
name: "Craig Fahner"
+ bio: 'Craig Fahner is an artist and musician based in Toronto. Fahner’s interactive media artworks examine the politics and poetics of invisible digital infrastructures. His works have been exhibited in various venues and festivals internationally, including the Museo de la Ciudad in Queretaro, Mexico, and the Device Art Triennial in Zagreb. He is currently developing a SSHRC-supported research project called "Inverting the Algorithmic Gaze" as a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in Communication & Culture at York and Ryerson Universities.'
+ link: https://www.craigfahner.com
+ linkDisplay: Artist Website
+ link2: https://vimeo.com/craigfahner
+ linkDisplay2: Vimeo
+ github: craigfahner
- presenterID: marios
name: "Marios Isaakidis"
-
- - presenterID: casey
- name: "Casey Gollan"
+ bio: "Marios Isaakidis is a hacktivist and PhD researcher at University College London. Currently he is developing biton, a peer-to-peer network built around communities, as an OTF Senior Fellow in Information Controls at the University of Waterloo."
+ link: "https://bitonproject.org/"
+ linkDisplay: "bitonproject.org"
+ github: "misaakidis"
+ twitter: "misaakidis"
+
+ - presenterID: disorientations
+ name: "Disorientations"
+ bio: 'Disorientation is an informal archive of 100+ disorientation publications by student activists, threading counter-narratives across institutions. This workshop is organized by Casey, Emma, and Katie.'
+ link: https://disorientations.org
+ linkDisplay: disorientations.org
+ twitter: diso_archive
+ github: disorientations
- presenterID: lee
name: "Lee Tusman"
+ bio: "Lee Tusman and Daniel Lichtman are artists, programmers, educators and curators. They create artwork, software, installations and games. They are interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods of digital culture, and how media platforms shape relationships of trust and power between performer and viewer. Tusman is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science and Lichtman is Lecturer at Purchase College."
+ link: http://leetusman.com/
+ linkDisplay: LeeTusman.com
+ link2: https://virtual-autonomous-zone.github.io/
+ linkDisplay2: Virtual Autonomous Zone
+ twitter: 2sman2sman
+ github: lee2sman
- presenterID: daniel
name: "Daniel Lichtman"
+ bio: "Lee Tusman and Daniel Lichtman are artists, programmers, educators and curators. They create artwork, software, installations and games. They are interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods of digital culture, and how media platforms shape relationships of trust and power between performer and viewer. Tusman is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science and Lichtman is Lecturer at Purchase College."
+ link: http://daniellichtman.com/
+ linkDisplay: DanielLichtman.com
+ link2: https://virtual-autonomous-zone.github.io/
+ linkDisplay2: Virtual Autonomous Zone
+ github: danielp73
- presenterID: cade
name: "Cade Diehm"
+ bio: "Cade is the founder of the New Design Congress, a research group developing a nuanced understanding of technology's role as a social, political and environmental accelerant. He spent ten years embedded in digital infrastructure and security projects in six countries. He prototyped Signal with Open Whisper Systems in 2014, led design and strategy at an early cryptocurrency startup and was Chief Creative Officer at SpiderOak, a Snowden-approved cloud storage company. Prior to founding the New Design Congress he led design and information security research at Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based NGO raising awareness of data privacy issues in societies."
+ link: https://newdesigncongress.org/
+ linkDisplay: New Design Congress
+ link2: https://shiba.computer/
+ linkDisplay2: Personal Site
+ twitter: helveticade
+ github: shibacomputer
- presenterID: china
name: "China Residencies"
-
- - presenterID: xiao
- name: "An Xiao Mina"
-
- - presenterID: kira
- name: "Kira Simon-Kennedy"
-
- - presenterID: josue
- name: "Josue Chavez"
-
- - presenterID: mikail
- name: "Mikail Wright"
+ bio: "The Meme Tactics curatorial team includes Josue Chavez, a PhD student at the Hispanic Studies department in the University of Pennsylvania; Mikail Wright, independent researcher; Kira Simon-Kennedy, director & co-founder of China Residencies and An Xiao Mina, writer of Memes To Movements. China Residencies is a multifaceted non-profit that believes artists are cultural and social change-makers. To achieve this vision, China Residencies creates opportunities for artists to bring a broader cultural understanding into their work and communities."
+ link: https://chinaresidencies.com/news/270
+ linkDisplay: chinaresidencies.com/news/270
+ twitter: chinaresidency
+ github: josdchavez
- presenterID: arthur
name: "Arthur Debert"
@@ -578,74 +709,200 @@
- presenterID: carin
name: "Carin Klonowski"
+ - presenterID: wman
+ name: "WMAN"
+ bio: "WMAN is a playing, research and artistic practice group based on the medium of video games and is made up of 6 artists. Its working, demonstration and research mechanisms vary at each occurrence depending on the fields covered. WMAN is mobile. It takes place both in the physical spaces that bring its members together and in the digital spaces in which they navigate. What it produces is as diverse as what it explores : it builds reflections as much as plastic forms such as performance, sculpture, image or text."
+ link: https://www.facebook.com/WMANguild/
+ linkDisplay: WMANguild
+ link2: http://manyland.com/wmanhub
+ linkDisplay2: manyland.com/wmanhub
+ GitHub: ArthurDebert
+
- presenterID: gabrielle
name: "Gabrielle Benabdallah"
+ bio: "Gabrielle Benabdallah (CA) is a researcher and PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, in Seattle. She’s interested in how technology informs subjective processes and in creating artifacts that leverage computation to explore poetic and extramundane experiences. Her research focuses on how to integrate humanistic approaches into HCI and how that might enable different ethical relationships with technology, and therefore new modes of being in the world."
+ link: https://gabriellebenabdallah.com/
+ linkDisplay: gabriellebenabdallah.com
+ twitter: gabriellejbr
+ github: gabjohar
- presenterID: heidi
name: "Heidi Biggs"
+ bio: "Heidi Biggs (US) is a design researcher pursuing a PhD in Human Computer Interaction and Design at the Indiana University Bloomington. Biggs uses research through design to playfully explore ways technologies can make climate change more tangible and support slow, place-based ecological understanding. She/They also sew and weave soft, sonic wearables to performatively explore feelings of gender non-binaryness."
+ link: https://www.heidibiggsdesign.com/
+ linkDisplay: heidibiggsdesign.com
+ link2: https://www.dx-softlab.com/blog/2019/7/29/racquetball-score
+ linkDisplay2: dxarts softlab Raquetball Score
+ twitter: biggshr
- presenterID: shih
name: "Shih Wei Chieh"
+ bio: "Shih Wei Chieh (TW) is a media artist based in Taipei works with wearables, e-textile prototyping, and laser projector hacking. He is the founder of “Tribe Against Machine” an experimental platform that aims to bring more attention to developing areas, minority ethnic culture by organizing nomadic camps/labs. His current mission is to innovate a greenhouse in Tibet as a common ground for creating a bio lab and providing food to the local community."
+ link: https://shihweichieh.com/
+ linkDisplay: shihweichieh.com
+ link2: http://tribe-against-machine.org/
+ linkDisplay2: tribe-against-machine.org
+ twitter: shihweichieh
+ gitlab: greenhouseinfo
- presenterID: amor
name: "Amor Muñoz"
+ bio: "Amor Muñoz (MX) was born in Mexico City in 1979. Her work across textiles, performance, drawing, sound and experimental electronics to explore the relationship between technology and society, showing a special interest in the interaction between material forms and social discourse. She is particularly interested in how technology affects fabrication systems and how manual labor and handcrafts are changing in a contemporary global economy."
+ link: http://amormunoz.net/
+ linkDisplay: amormunoz.net
+ twitter: amormunozstudio
- presenterID: constanza
name: "Constanza Piña"
+ bio: "Constanza Piña Pardo (CL) is a visual artist, dancer and researcher, focused on electronic experimentation, free technologies and social practices. Her work reflects on the role of machines in culture, criticizing capitalism and the techno-patriarchy system. Interested in recycling, handicrafts and electronic wizardry in her sound project Corazón de Robota, she explores the field of audible and inaudible frequencies as physical perceptions and noise. Constanza is the organizer of the technofeminist meeting Cyborgrrrls in México City."
+ link: https://corazonderobota.wordpress.com/
+ linkDisplay: corazonderobota.wordpress.com
+ link2: https://proyectokhipu.wordpress.com/
+ linkDisplay2: proyectokhipu.wordpress.com
- presenterID: melissa
name: "Melissa Aguilar"
+ bio: "Graphic designer and artistic researcher, Melissa Aguilar (CR), is a collaborator of Cyborgrrrls Tecnofeminist Meeting since 2018. She is a student of the master of graphic design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Faculty of Art and Design (UNAM-FAD), and member of ICOM Costa Rica. Melissa is dedicated to art and tech, new media, museums, and art education. Her projects seek to bring together museums and makerspaces in order to enhance visitors’ experience through immersive practices."
+ link2: https://cyborgrrrls.wordpress.com/
+ linkDisplay2: cyborgrrrls.wordpress.com
- presenterID: audrey
name: "Audrey Briot"
+ bio: "Textile designer and technologist, Audrey Briot (FR) is cofounder of DataPaulette, a collective and hackerspace focused on research and development in textiles and digital technologies. Her work is dedicated to the impact of emerging technologies on the preservation of textiles savoir-faire. She is focusing on non-verbal communications transmitted by textiles which represent for her a substitute of writing. She relies on anthropological researches in order to formulate textiles as memory vectors, adding data and interactivity."
+ link: http://audreybriot.fr/
+ linkDisplay: audreybriot.fr
+ link2: http://datapaulette.org/
+ linkDisplay2: datapaulette.org
+ twitter: audreybriot
+ github: AudreyBriot
- presenterID: afroditi
name: "Afroditi Psarra"
+ bio: "Afroditi Psarra (GR) is an Athenian-born multidisciplinary artist, currently based in Seattle, WA. Her research focuses on the creation of artifacts through critical discourse. She is interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. She uses cyber crafts and other gendered practices as speculative strings, and open-source technologies as educational models of diffusing knowledge."
+ link: http://afroditipsarra.com/
+ linkDisplay: afroditipsarra.com
+ link2: https://www.dx-softlab.com/
+ linkDisplay2: dxarts softlab
+ twitter: afroditi_stereo
+ github: afrdt
- presenterID: panayotis
name: "Panayotis Antoniadis"
+ bio: "Panayotis Antoniadis is the co-founder of NetHood, a Zurich-based non-profit organization that combines research and action in the development of tools for self-organization and conviviality, bringing together different forms of commoning in the city like community networks, complementary currencies, and cooperative housing."
+ link: http://nethood.org/
+ linkDisplay: NetHood
+ link2: http://langstrasse200.ch/
+ linkDisplay2: L200
+ twitter: panayotis
+ github: panosnethood
- presenterID: pierre
name: "Pierre Depaz"
+ bio: "Pierre Depaz (b. ████, France) and Pat Shiu (b. ████, Hong Kong) create works about loneliness, humor and technological absurdity. An oft-revisited subject in their works is emotional connections as experienced through the constraints of the technologies that mediate them. Most of their works solicit interaction, and straddle digital and physical spaces. For years, they’ve lived in separate cities, and collaborate almost entirely remotely."
+ link: https://xn--priode-bva.net/
+ linkDisplay: période.net
+ github: periode
- presenterID: pat
name: "Pat Shiu"
+ bio: "Pierre Depaz (b. ████, France) and Pat Shiu (b. ████, Hong Kong) create works about loneliness, humor and technological absurdity. An oft-revisited subject in their works is emotional connections as experienced through the constraints of the technologies that mediate them. Most of their works solicit interaction, and straddle digital and physical spaces. For years, they’ve lived in separate cities, and collaborate almost entirely remotely."
+ link: http://patshiu.com/
+ linkDisplay: patshiu.com
+ github: patshiu
- presenterID: dejha
name: "Dejha Ti"
+ bio: "Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an LA-based experiential artist duo whose practice merges environments, performance, and technology. Both conceptual artists, their expertise collide—Ti's background in immersive art and human-computer interaction, and Catherine a performance artist and gender scholar. Called “the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine), they focus on how art and technology can be harnessed to form new digital architectures."
+ link: http://dejha.com/
+ linkDisplay: dejha.com
+ link2: https://www.operator.la/
+ linkDisplay2: operator.la
+ twitter: dejhati
- presenterID: ania
name: "Ania Catherine"
+ bio: "Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an LA-based experiential artist duo whose practice merges environments, performance, and technology. Both conceptual artists, their expertise collide—Ti's background in immersive art and human-computer interaction, and Catherine a performance artist and gender scholar. Called “the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine), they focus on how art and technology can be harnessed to form new digital architectures."
+ link: https://aniacatherine.com/
+ linkDisplay: aniacatherine.com
+ link2: https://www.operator.la/
+ linkDisplay2: operator.la
+ twitter: aniacatherine
- presenterID: mai
name: "Mai Ishikawa Sutton"
+ bio: "Mai Ishikawa Sutton is a community organizer and writer focused on human rights, solidarity economics, and the digital commons. She is currently the Associate Producer of DWeb Projects with the Internet Archive and team member of the Distributed Press project. She is a steward of People's Open Network in Oakland, California and Digital Commons Fellow with the Commons Network. She comes from a background in international digital policy and free culture activism."
+ link: https://distributed.press/
+ linkDisplay: distributed.press
+ Twitter: maira
- presenterID: udit
name: "Udit Vira"
+ bio: "Udit Vira is an engineer and designer living in Toronto. He is broadly interested in building a capacity for long term thinking; new modes of collaboration; and examining the potential for technology to sense and actuate change. He is currently a member-owner of Hypha Worker Co-operative, strategist at Toronto-based studio From Later, and team member of the Distributed Press project. Udit has a background in Electrical Engineering and Physics, and he graduated from McGill University where he was a member of the Nano-electronic Devices and Materials research group."
- presenterID: benedict
name: "Benedict Lau"
+ bio: "Benedict is an engineer who works on community-owned digital infrastructures and is especially interested in their systems architecture and governance practices. He is a community organizer at Toronto Mesh, and previously co-organized DWeb Camp and Our Networks. He currently works on Distributed Press, Aether, and various initiatives relating to cooperatively-owned digital spaces as a member-owner of Hypha Worker Co-operative. He has a background in nanophotonics and spent many years building embedded, mobile, mesh networking, and peer-to-peer software."
+ link: https://distributed.press/
+ linkDisplay: distributed.press
+ twitter: LauBenedict
+ github: benhylau
- presenterID: mark
name: "Mark Lam"
+ bio: "Mark Lam is an artist and educator that works with code, electronics, and found materials to make accessible technology and tools to explore the computer network. His work references design and critical studies to emphasize the materiality of the internet, through web applications and hardware. He earned an MPS at NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program and BA in Art Practice and Media Studies at UC Berkeley. Previously, Mark was a Digital Accessibility Fellow at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Visiting Lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education."
+ link: https://markofthelam.com/
+ linkDisplay: markofthelam.com
+ Twitter: markofthelam
+ GitHub: Emceelamb
- presenterID: troy
name: "Troy Walcott"
+ bio: "Troy Walcott, born and raised in Brooklyn NY and a 20 year veteran of the cable industry. Joining the company when it was Time Warner Cable and continuing when it became Spectrum Cable. Working with the cable company also gave me the opportunity to become a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers, the union that represents the field technical staff that makes up the cable company. I am a shop steward for that union. Up until going on strike my last position held in the company was with survey and design. In a short explanation we were responsible for bringing cable service to the areas of the city who did not have it."
+ link: https://unplugspectrum.com/
+ linkDisplay: UnplugSpectrum.com
+ link2: http://internetjustice.net/
+ linkDisplay2: InternetJustice.net
+ twitter: fasulo_chris
- presenterID: robert
name: "Robert Best"
+ bio: "Robert Best is a community organizer and free culture hacker. His areas of interest include peer-to-peer technologies, collective intelligence, commoning, social entrepreneurship, and the future of work. His current major projects are Open Learning Commons and Rapid Sensemaking Framework"
+ link: https://openlearning.cc/
+ linkDisplay: OpenLearning.CC
+ link2: https://about.me/robert_best
+ linkDisplay2: Robert.Best
+ twitter: Bortseb
+ github: Bortseb
- presenterID: cassandra
name: "Cassandra Could van Praag"
+ bio: "The main focus of my role is to generate opportunities for the research community to actively participate in and contribute to the open science infrastructure of Oxford Neuroscience, made available by awards to the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (BNDU) and the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). A large focus of this work is centred on supporting engagement with the WIN Open Neuroimaging Project."
+ twitter: cassgvp
- presenterID: sara
name: "Sara El-Gebali"
+ bio: "I am a Research Data Management Team Leader supporting the Scientific Infrastructures unit at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and the founder of OpenCider (Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource). I am a strong advocate for community building and the promotion of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields."
+ link: https://selgebali.gitbook.io/opencider/
+ linkDisplay: OpenCider
+ twitter: yalahowy
+ gitHub: https://github.com/selgebali
- presenterID: allan
name: "Allan Ochola"
+ bio: "I am a graduate student from Kenya and open data advocate favouring writing reusable software frameworks to stimulate scientific research in the bioinformatics community and software development skills with a focus on development of software standards, software sustainability, software documentation while looking for strategies, best practices and methodologies that encourage collaborative software development."
+ link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allan-ochola-bb4a2750/?originalSubdomain=ke
+ linkDisplay: LinkedIn
+ twitter: allanochola
- presenterID: divya
name: "Y Divya Sri"
-
- - presenterID: jennifer
- name: "Jennifer Seaman Cook"
+ bio: "Divya is a young artist based in Hyderabad, India. She completed her bachelor studies in 2018, with a major in contemporary art practices, from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. Guided by a process of critical and contextual engagement, Divya likes to experiment with various media in her works. Her interests lie in theories of internet and consumer cultures, surveillance practices and gender studies."
+ link: https://ydivyasri.myportfolio.com
+ linkDisplay: ydivyasri.myportfolio.com
+ twitter: DivyaSriY
+ github: divyasriy
+
+ - presenterID: qusai
+ name: "Qusai Jouda"
+ bio: "Qusai Jouda is a technologist and a software developer exploring multi-token crypto-economic designs. He holds a Master of Science in Software Technology from Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and was a visiting academic at ETH Zürich. He led UNICEF Innovation’s exploration and demystification of blockchain networks. He designed and presented training sessions on Bitcoin and Ethereum to UNICEF, the World Bank, and the US Department of state."
+ github: qjouda
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diff --git a/_data/sessions.yml b/_data/sessions.yml
index 0bf00f06..cc7a9157 100644
--- a/_data/sessions.yml
+++ b/_data/sessions.yml
@@ -1031,68 +1031,104 @@
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/2"
presenterID:
- xin
+ description: >
+ How might we begin to exit established forms of social media and the infrastructure of surveillance? p2p Experimental Chatroom is a weekly study group that researches the nonlinear histories of micro-social-networks and uses p5.js and peer.js to build a text-based chatroom from scratch. For three weeks, we will explore playful and experimental ways of communicating with each another over the peer to peer network. As a means to think beyond the standardized social media of the Web 2.0, we will work on customizing our own chatroom interfaces by integrating features such as collaborative drawing and simple animations. In this current iteration of creating on the web, we have to become more inclusive, collaborative, and considerate not only on how we hold a space but also on where we build the space.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
+ - study-group
- sessionID: 20003
title: "1422 1829 1702 Performance"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/3"
presenterID:
- katina
+ description: >
+ 1422 1829 1702 ([https://youtu.be/dT6BbhtePhI](https://youtu.be/dT6BbhtePhI)) is a performative video that explores the memories associated with physical locations from my past, present and future. More specifically, I am utilizing feet (both figuratively and literally) as a unit of measurement to navigate through my grandmother's, my mother's, and then my own home. Every carpet, rug, wood panel, tile and floor covering is meticulously measured, as I pace each inch with my feet. As I walked these homes, the floor plans become permanently ingrained in my memory, inch by inch, solidifying the connection between my family and I, no matter the distance. Each home segment can be seen as a parallel world to where I currently am; and reminds me that my past and present will always be a part of me heading into the future.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
- sessionID: 20004
title: "Epistemic relation as social relation"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/4"
presenterID:
- nealt
+ description: >
+ This talk begins from the premise that today’s social computing environments--their interfaces, data structures, and overall designs--have been enormously, if latently, influenced by philosophy. Machine learning strategies for computer vision and automatic classification owe a conceptual debt to Humean empiricism, for example. Embodied interaction design is deeply indebted to the insights of Heideggerean phenomenology. And the ideas of American pragmatist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce serve as an important formalizing basis for networked data structures.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20005
title: "Twitch Paints"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/5"
presenterID:
- jackson
- - megan
+ - megan
+ description: >
+ We would like to present our Painting Robot, P-air (Painting Audience Instructed Robot). This Robot is currently streamed live on Twitch and Controlled via Chat. The Audience types in commands like Up, Right, or Hard to control the brush. Over a few days we will make a painting created by dozens of people around the world. This would be ideally run for around 4-8 hours a day for a few days to give time for the painting to develop. We could do a quick introduction or interview at the end of the stream session when the painting is done explaining what we love about this project and a bit on how it works.
+ sessionType:
+ - exhibit
- sessionID: 20006
title: "Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Applications"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/6"
presenterID:
- brian
+ description: >
+ A software defined radio (SDR) is a type of low cost open source USB dongle that can transmit and receive information over the EM spectrum, but they have not been assigned to a structured set of communication frequencies and protocols like bluetooth, wifi, or smartphones -- these parameters are programmable in software! In a combined presentation and live demonstration, participants will explore the history and development of SDR, will look at security and privacy implications of these liminal devices in legislation, Dunne and Raby's "Hertzian Tales" (2004) and ways these devices have been used to constitute interesting device networks and solve problems in the EM -- e.g. car key fobs, beacons, IoT devices, and weather satellites overhead. The talk will finish by walking participants through building a simple FM tuner using GNU public radio and SDR, accompanied by instructions, videos and support materials.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20007
- title: "literary mesh: exercice de style"
+ title: "The Study: a literary mesh"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/7"
presenterID:
- edith
+ description: >
+ The goal of this creative workshop is to build a literary mesh collectively, exploring the mesh as a kind of narrative structure. A literary mesh is loosely inspired by the network mesh. As we envision it, a literary mesh means that there is not one way to approach the literary work: we could begin with the end, if there was one. It is a way of playing with the structure holding the written words together, of creating a new scaffold for stories yet to be told. In this workshop, we will be using GitHub to collaborate online in the creation of The Study, a not-so-quiet room where books and stories abound.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20008
title: "Internet Aerobics"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/8"
presenterID:
- liat
+ description: >
+ Filmed in a computer Lab, Internet Aerobics is a 20-minute aerobics workout routine about the internet, streaming to you through the internet. Aerobics props of long, blue ethernet cables are used, and hyperlink blue is celebrated as the color of online opportunity -- of links that have not yet been clicked. Aerobics moves embody multiple facets of online life, with packets of information speeding through wifi networks, routers, data centers, fiber optic cables -- often times at different speeds due to the lack of net neutrality laws. This workout routine is an invitation to you to sweat along in front of your own browser tab while thinking about and moving through the very makeup of the Internet, itself.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
- sessionID: 20009
title: "Reimagine Family, Redistributing Care"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/9"
presenterID:
- reunion
-
-- sessionID: 20010
- title: "OFFICE PARTY 3 : The 95th Annual Celebration of the Workers' Club at the Grand Palais"
- descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/10"
- presenterID:
- - brandon
+ description: >
+ ReUnion is a design initiative that explores the future concept of family. By creating a platform that allows people to autonomously design their relationships, ReUnion searches for a more inclusive environment to experiment with types of relationships and ways of organizing life. In this workshop, we will discuss the logic and thinking behind the project, and invite participants to explore the immediate care relationships in their present life - and share in the common discussion if willing - with ReUnion's care-centric value framework in mind.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20011
title: "Building Your Own Routing Protocol"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/11"
presenterID:
- grant
+ description: >
+ Routing protocols are all around you. Through a mess of radio waves, electrical signals, and flickering light, routing protocols determine how information gets from point A to point B. There are lots of analogies out there for how routing protocols work (think postal service p.s. SAVE the USPS!) and there are more routing protocols shooting around the interwebs than you may realize. But what if you don't want to use the traditional, (big I)nternet? What if your medium of communication is something so new and cutting edge, or so retro and outdated (let's call it vintage) that the commonly used standards don't apply. Or what if you just want to better understand how information moves through cyberspace? Where would you start?! You would start by building your own routing protocol.
+ sessionType:
+ - discussion
- sessionID: 20012
title: "Shuhaku: What did they say?"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/12"
- presenterID:
- - brady
+ presenterID:
+ - brady
- david
+ description: >
+ People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn't use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would, but they wouldn't. Something else is needed. Shuhaku is Levantine Arabic for "What did they say?" It's a news and blog aggregator meant to help people find the fresh information that they will find the most interesting and useful. It's about text. It's about the galaxy brain. It's not about fame, and it's not about vitriol. Shuhaku is a news aggregator that's designed to be just social enough.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20013
title: "Utopia as Uncertainty - The issue of decentralisation versus classical utopias"
@@ -1100,12 +1136,20 @@
presenterID:
- ulrich
- emoke
+ description: >
+ The archistic, classical utopia is a completely planned desired state for the future in social and architectural terms. It is the elimination of uncertainty. However all utopias are uncertain because it is a proposed future and the future is uncertain. All utopias, archistic or not equals the intended elimination of uncertainty because their aim is to end history and hence uncertainty.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20014
title: "TrustNet: Trust-based and subjective moderation systems"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/14"
presenterID:
- alexander
+ description: >
+ In this talk, I will introduce TrustNet, a flexible and distributed system for deriving, and interacting with, computational trust. The focus of the talk will be applying TrustNet as a tool within distributed chat systems for implementing a trust-based and subjective moderation system.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20016
title: "Towards A Common Glossary for Decentralized Technologies"
@@ -1113,18 +1157,24 @@
presenterID:
- eileen
- karissa
-
+ description: >
+ Learn about the 7 key challenges that hinder the adoption of decentralized applications
+ Deep-dive into design and developer onboarding & naming. How do we name things across the ecosystem? Where does terminology help or hinder understanding across different protocols and applications? What are appropriate metaphors and descriptions for different user groups?
+ Where can we converge on particular names for key concepts? How would we go about creating a common glossary?
+ This work is part of DOTS: [Decentralization, off the shelf](https://decentpatterns.xyz/).
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
+
- sessionID: 20017
title: "hyperobjects.io"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/17"
presenterID:
- judith
-
-- sessionID: 20018
- title: "An Encyclopedia of Digital Distances"
- descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/18"
- presenterID:
- - hillary
+ - qusai
+ description: >
+ To call something a hyperobject means to look at it with new eyes, to reclaim its inherent mystery. Hyperobjects are comparable to hashtags, implying metadata of time and space. hyperobjects.io is a digital performance template for interspecies relationship. Participants can geo-tag artworks or stories on an interactive, borderless map. Likes, shares and purchases create funds for international micro-scale environmental projects through a blockchain script.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20019
title: "Behind the Scenes at the Doomsday Supper Club"
@@ -1133,6 +1183,11 @@
- jason
- el
- ananda
+ description: >
+ Since the early days of the Great Quarantine, the Doomsday Supper Club has been extending a helping hand to those in need of quality, spontaneous social interaction. Within the walls of our vintage 1990 establishment, we have been able to connect our patrons with one another through the medium of text, click and gasp. Now we would like to open our doors to select members of the Our Networks community, and share what we have discovered along the way.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20020
title: "Open Weather: building networks for nowcasting the weather"
@@ -1140,58 +1195,91 @@
presenterID:
- sophie
- sasha
+ description: >
+ Open Weather is a project by Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann probing the noisy relationships between bodies, atmospheres and weather systems through ham radio, open data and feminist approaches to remote sensing. In July 2020 we will launch the Open Weather platform which will host a public archive of radio-generated weather images. The archive will sit alongside a series of 'how to guides' enabling people with no ham radio or technical experience to set up their own satellite ground station.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20021
title: "Eigengrau"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/21"
presenterID:
- craig
+ description: >
+ _Eigengrau_ (a term used to describe what is seen through closed eyes) is a web-based artwork that facilitates a sense of connection with others while resisting the rapid cognitive pace demanded by dominant social media platforms. It is a platform that can only be interacted with when users close their eyes. Using socket.io and p5js, an in-browser facial feature tracker detects when a participant's eyes are closed, at which point, an audible tone is generated. When multiple users visit the site and close their eyes simultaneously, harmonized tones are produced for each user and broadcast across the network, resulting in a collectively played organ.
+ sessionType:
+ - exhibit
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20022
title: "biton — the Internet potluck"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/22"
presenterID:
- marios
+ description: >
+ biton ([https://bitonproject.org](https://bitonproject.org)) is a peer-to-peer network built around swarms — groups of peers that store encrypted files and relay requests through one another. biton swarms interconnect in a global network that provides plausible deniability, meaning that adversaries cannot be sure about who originally made a request. In this way, biton can be used for evading information controls and for building community networks around local data and services.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20023
title: "Disorientations Archive-a-thon"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/23"
presenterID:
- - casey
+ - disorientations
+ description: >
+ [Disorientations](https://disorientations.org/) is an informal archive of 100+ disorientation publications by student activists, threading counter-narratives across institutions. These zines are vital examples of grassroots literature which subvert the glossy narratives put forth by universities. Though abundant, they are very disconnected — and like other activist ephemera, many don't make it online, are lost to time, or face deliberate erasure.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20024
- title: "Virtual Autonomous Zone"
+ title: "Xzone - A Do It Together platform for online community-making"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/24"
presenterID:
- - lee
+ - lee
- daniel
+ description: >
+ Participants in this workshop will create their own D.I.T. (“Do It Together”) 2D networked online meeting places. We will introduce the idea of virtual temporary autonomous zones based on the concept of temporary autonomous zones, the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces to evade formal structures of control. We will teach how to create a simplified networked graphical community meeting space based on this concept, including creating avatars, room interiors and interactive objects, inspired by physical spaces such as the squat, loft, community space, or campsite.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20025
title: "This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the Decentralised Network"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/25"
presenterID:
- cade
+ description: >
+ The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to the emergence of large scale information networks such as Dat, Scuttlebutt and ActivityPub, this is renewed life in peer-to-peer technologies; a renaissance that enjoys widespread growth, driven by the desire for platform commons and community self-determination. These are goals that are fundamentally at odds with – and a response to – the incumbent platforms of social media, music and movie distribution and data storage. As we enter the 2020s, centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the decentralised networks and the communities they serve have never been more vulnerable. The peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20026
title: "Meme Tactics: Covid-19"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/26"
presenterID:
- - china
- - xiao
- - kira
- - josue
- - mikail
+ - china
+ description: >
+ The China Residencies team proposes a walkthrough of Meme Tactics, an online exhibit in Mozilla Hubs featuring artists Elyla Sinvergüenza and Amy Suo Wu. Their creative interventions in the public sphere will launch us into a strategizing session to harness the humorous power of memes for movements. We'll share examples of dances, symbols, zines and patches from Nicaragua, India, mainland China, and beyond. You'll leave with a set of tactics specific to amplify your own messages, inspired by the way in which social movements around the world are using memes to negotiate power and assert presence.
+ sessionType:
+ - exhibit
- sessionID: 20028
title: "Play2play"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/28"
presenterID:
+ - wman
- arthur
- - alix
+ - alix
- lucie
- - valentin
- - leo
- - carin
+ - valentin
+ - leo
+ - carin
+ description: >
+ We consider the game [www.manyland.com](http://manyland.com/) as a collective and social space in which it is possible to iterate real life behaviors. The building permissions of the world are shared with every newcomer so that all participants find themselves equal in the construction, destruction and design of this common space.
+ sessionType:
+ - backstage
- sessionID: 20029
title: "Crafting Commons: A round table on cybercraft networks"
@@ -1204,7 +1292,11 @@
- audrey
- amor
- constanza
- - melissa
+ - melissa
+ description: >
+ Craft practices rely on the exchange and transmission of techniques, technical skills, tacit and explicit knowledge about materials and methods but also on the circulation of common values and ethos, fostering shared mindsets and communities. Many of these communities around the world are developing and passing on these technical and cultural legacies to fellow practitioners, creating cultural and intellectual commons in the same movement, by organizing autonomous conferences, camps, short residency programs, and working collaboratively bringing local and international networks together. This session proposes to bring several of these practitioners together to discuss what their practices create beyond artifacts, and how they contribute to establishing self-determined communities and to fostering commons.
+ sessionType:
+ - round-table
- sessionID: 20030
title: "Listening Space"
@@ -1212,52 +1304,86 @@
presenterID:
- audrey
- afroditi
-
+ description: >
+ Listening Space is an artistic research that explores transmission ecologies as a means of perceiving the surrounding environment beyond our human abilities. Conceptually the project seeks to define transmissions ecologies as raw material for artistic expression, to understand and re-imagine in poetic means, representations of audio and images broadcasted from space. The artists are creating cyber physical systems for sensing the invisible universe that surrounds us. By using open-source tools, DIY electronics, hardware hacking and digital crafts, they aim to approach art and science and create artifacts that explore the idea of citizen science. Specifically, by focusing on electromagnetic-field (EMF) and radio frequency (RF) detection, they aim to re-claim the depth of transmission ecologies, evolving at a higher rhythm than liveness, through our environment and bodies.
+ sessionType:
+ - performance
+
- sessionID: 20031
title: "Toward a federation of hybrid spaces"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/31"
presenterID:
- panayotis
-
+ description: >
+ The main topic of my intervention is the idea of hybrid space as a common infrastructure as described in this [recent article at the Journal of Peer Production](http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-today-when-sts-meets-ict/peer-reviewed-papers/central-urban-space-as-a-hybrid-common-infrastructure/), and [presented recently at battlemesh](https://media.freifunk.net/v/community-first-experiences-from-deploying-local-first-wifi-networks-in-urban-locations).
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
+ - talk
+
- sessionID: 20032
title: "TTY2020"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/32"
presenterID:
- pierre
- pat
-
+ description: >
+ We intend to deploy our piece, TTY2020, during the unfolding of Our Networks. A dot-matrix printer has put one character on the page every second, from the moment it is turned on. Every minute, it completes a line, and moves on to the next. Via the website any visitor can view all previously printed text, and enter new text to be printed, Until the moment it is sent to print, all text is readable only by its author, so she drafts in private. To everyone else on the page, her input is displayed as grey blocks. Every second, as the print head moves forward, it sets in ink each character in its path, rendering it public to all.
+ sessionType:
+ - exhibit
+
- sessionID: 20033
title: "On View: Art and technology towards new digital architectures"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/33"
presenterID:
- dejha
- ania
+ description: >
+ Experiential artists Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine discuss their work 'On View', a large scale interactive installation taking form in a hyperbole of how surveillance capitalism has impacted art engagement; the piece recently won the 2020 ADC Awards for Experiential Design (Digital Experiences + Responsive Environments). Following an overview of the conceptual background, the duo will dive into how they merged performance art, facial recognition, an immersive contract, selfie stages, environmental sensors, and a score by Amon Tobin to create an audience experience that sheds light on the real price of being 'on view' in our current digital landscape. Ti and Catherine will then host a discussion about how art and technology can be harnessed to strategically, creatively, and ethically rebuild a healthier digital future.
+ sessionType:
+ - discussion
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20034
title: "Holistic Digital Authorship"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/34"
presenterID:
- - mai
+ - mai
- udit
- benedict
+ description: >
+ This collaborative workshop prompts discussion around precarious and hidden labour in digital authorship and in open publishing. Through conversations and drawings, we will explore tensions between social purpose vs. free labour, and our [atomization in a competitive content market](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss) as creators. Inspired by [Holistic Security](https://holistic-security.tacticaltech.org/) by [Tactical Tech](https://tacticaltech.org/) and the [Revolutionary Networked Politics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyeoTmgM6Uk) presentations [at transmediale](https://2020.transmediale.de/content/revolutionary-networked-politics), we will engage through a holistic approach that centres on self-care and the well-being of content authors. There are many topics relevant to digital publishing, such as: equitable compensations and dignified livelihoods, creative expression on moderated platforms, security and anonymity in online spaces. How does one navigate the complex environments and entrenched power structures of the web? What is the cost of the labour asked of an individual creator and the impact on their well-being?
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20035
title: "Bridge to the Internet: A Community Router"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/35"
presenterID:
- mark
+ description: >
+ _Bridge to the Internet_ is a router image that hosts network bandwidth saving services and robust local area communication applications that activate local area networks to strengthen connection within a local community. With the internet under heavy strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that we must maximize our network resources and look for alternatives to internet-based communication.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20036
title: "Building Equity through Public Owned Cable System"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/36"
presenterID:
- troy
+ description: >
+ Our proposal was brought about through forced necessity. After acquiring Time Warner Cable in 2016 Spectrum has shown to be nothing but a bad actor in our cities. Here in NY they have waged war on their union work force as we are the only thing that stands against them gouging the city of our resources for their profit. In 2017 using unfair bargaining tactics they began a campaign to dismantle and take us out. This is when we went on strike.
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20037
title: "Open Learning Commons: A peer-to-peer educational ecosystem"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/37"
presenterID:
- robert
+ description: >
+ I plan to introduce Open Learning Commons: the idea, its history, and the current status of the project. I will then show a bunch of the open-source software that composes the learning commons infrastructure and describe some of the co-learning groups who are making use of that infrastructure (Things like their practices and topics of interest). I will then open the session up to questions and discussion about peer learning (peeragogy), open educational resources/EdTech, and community networks more generally.
+ sessionType:
+ - talk
- sessionID: 20038
title: "Open Data and Collaboration in Action"
@@ -1266,15 +1392,18 @@
- cassandra
- sara
- allan
+ description: >
+ As we enter the final decade of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we have an opportunity to accelerate our progress towards this goal, by more rigorously collecting, analyzing and applying good-quality data to shape programmes that can bring us closer to ending access to digital divide in all its forms. Open data is a critical enabler. The session will bring together the open data community to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data in the context of COVID-19. The unique nature of the event is to enable participants from various interdisciplinary backgrounds to define strategies that advance open data globally and locally, with the vision that attendees will take their new insights back to their home institutions to grow a vibrant open data community. The session will include Keynote addresses, Q&A sessions and networking breaks
+ sessionType:
+ - workshop
- sessionID: 20039
- title: "Experiences of surveillance"
+ title: "Blink"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/39"
presenterID:
- divya
+ description: >
+ 24 volunteers/ participants from Divya's social network will hangout in groups of 3-5 till all have participated once. It is a curatorial attempt to involve people living in different timezones ( UTC-12 to UTC+12 ) to virtually hang out in their respective 5-6 pm slot. The session is divided in 2 parts- 30 mins to talk and 30 mins to browse. In one session, participants will be given a prompt to talk about, with regards to surveillance and privacy and in the other, they will archive, after browsing, 3 selected webpages which also address issues of surveillance. The prompts will be inspired from instances of privacy breaches in the 21st century.
+ sessionType:
+ - backstage
-- sessionID: 20040
- title: "Waiting for NIN in New Orleans"
- descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2020-submissions/issues/40"
- presenterID:
- - jennifer
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