Disruption Network Lab
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -Examining the intersection of politics, technology, and society, Disruption Network Lab exposes the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful.
Disruption Network Lab is an ongoing platform of events and research focused on the intersection of politics, technology and society. We are a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation in Germany (Disruption Network Lab e. V.) that has since 2014 organised participatory, interdisciplinary, international events at the intersection of human rights and technology with the objective of strengthening freedom of speech, and exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful. We develop work that advocates for the globally marginalised.
Disruption Network Lab (http://www.disruptionlab.org/#teaser) organises inter-disciplinary conferences at the interface of scholarship and politics and local meetups throughout the year in Berlin.
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Corruption Unveiled: Julian Hessenthaler & Frederik Obermaier · #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime
December 18, 2023 09:56 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBCorruption Unveiled: Austria's Troublesome Path from Strache to Kurz From #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime. Watch this talk and others here Julian Hessenthaler, the private detective who set the trap for Strache and triggered the "Ibiza affair," delves into the issues of power and abuse of power in the state of Austria with Frederik Obermaier one of the journalists to whom he leaked the video. In 2019, a scandal rocked Austrian politics as journalists from Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung...
Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism & Longtermism
October 13, 2023 14:04 - 55 minutes - 38.7 MBPhilosopher Émile P. Torres takes you on a journey through the surreal and very influential techno-utopian – and dystopian - philosophies and ideologies of Silicon Valley billionaires and leaders. Recorded at a meet-up and workshop curated by Sabina Barcucci. Read more about the meet-up here: https://dnlb.org/torres. Our next conference is Organised Crime: A Global Business, Nov 24–26 2023: https://dnlb.org/31. Become a menber: dnlb.org/join More events and resources at https://disrupt...
Sharon K. Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China)
October 07, 2021 13:07 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBSharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US). Moderated by Magnus Ag (Journalist, Human Rights Advocate, Founder of Bridge Figures, DK/NO). In recent decades, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has increasingly challenged international human rights norms and values and aggressively promoted its alternative models for human rights, development, and even, as it claims, “democracy.” Framed within a narrative of global resistance against Western imperialism and exploitation, ...
Are Kleptocrats the big winners of Covid-19?
August 09, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBAward-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. Across the world, we've seen dramatic increases in government spending, logistical obstacles for watchdogs monitoring kleptocratic financial flows, and a ready-made excuse for restrictions on freedom of movement... and political protest. In our conversation, Tom shared his wealth of experience on the topic (nodding to his recently published se...
Whistleblowing during Covid-19
August 02, 2021 13:49 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBRenata Avila, Joseph Farrell & Rima Sghaier discuss the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic. The work of whistleblowers is central to denounce power violations and to protect the most vulnerable sectors of our society, but also whistleblowers are people at risk. They are subjects of repression and opposition before and after blowing the whistle, and often confined in isolation, imprisoned or persecuted while their civil rights...
THE Q IN QONSPIRACY
July 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBIn this conversation between Wu Ming 1 and Florian Cramer, QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer culture, they will focus on three conspiracy narratives: "The Great Replacement" (from Renaud Camus to Charlottesville), QAnon (from Pizzagate to the Capitol storming) and...
WHISTLEBLOWING & COVID-19
May 10, 2021 14:12 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThis keynote conversation brings together Eileen Chubb, a former care assistant in the UK who became a whistleblower and later a campaigner, and Erika Cheung, one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal and today co-founder and executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship. The conversation is based on two important experiences of raising concerns in the healthcare field, wants to discuss systemic problems around corporate governance, ethical decision-making and the importance...
JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown
March 20, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBThis panel brings together four experts in the field of technology, human rights, investigative journalism and law to address the importance of transparency, government accountability and media freedom through the case and the present conditions of Julian Assange. www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask
JULIAN ASSANGE: A statement by Jennifer Robinson
March 20, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.44 MBJennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London. Her practice focuses on defending cases for freedom of expression before national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights. Robinson is best known for her role as a long-standing member of the legal team defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask
Voice of Care: Helen O’Connor
March 19, 2021 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBHelen O’Connor, National Health Service nurse in the United Kingdom for many years and today GMB NHS Union Organiser will give a critical perspective on the UK health care system and the measures that need to be taken to protect the rights of the workers, rather than allowing private companies to profit, in order to help resolve the pandemic and future public health emergencies. From the conference: www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask
Resisting Speculation
May 30, 2020 23:30 - 2 hours - 84.8 MBThis talk brings into dialogue different modalities of fighting speculation, sharing tactics of resistance in the political and media landscape, and presenting concrete interventions in the urban territory of Berlin and internationally. www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
The Human Rights Solution: Tackling the Housing Crisis
May 30, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBThis keynote event brings in conversation Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, and Justus von Daniels, Editor-in-Chief of CORRECTIV, to discuss how civil society can be directly involved in fighting real estate speculation, and which measures can be adopted to guarantee the right to adequate housing on a global scale. www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co!
May 30, 2020 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBVolkan Sayman from Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen discusses Berlin's housing crisis as a result of the privatisation and financialisation of housing, highlights major milestones of the expropriation campaign, and gives a glimpse on what's next in the struggle against displacement and for socialised housing in Berlin. www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
Conversation · PUSH - The Film
May 30, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBIn major cities across the world local working and middle class citizens are being pushed out of their very own homes – because living in them has become unaffordable. Join us for a discussion between PUSH: the film director Fredrik Gertten and activist Leilani Farha on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on real estate speculation and eviction. www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
Anonymous & Aggressive Investors
May 29, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBThis keynote panel focuses on two different but related investigations in Berlin and Barcelona on real estate ownership and aggressive international investors. https://disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
Foggy Properties & Golden Sands
May 29, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn this panel Sam Leon from "Global Witness" and Karina Shedrofsky from "OCCRP" analyse how money laundering, organised crime and corruption interfere and influence real estate, addressing respectively the contexts of London and Dubai. www.disruptionlab.org/evicted-by-greed
AN AUTOPSY OF ONLINE LOVE, LABOUR, SURVEILLANCE AND ELECTRICITY/ENERGY
February 05, 2020 14:25 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBAN AUTOPSY OF ONLINE LOVE, LABOUR, SURVEILLANCE AND ELECTRICITY/ENERGY Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, ES) in conversation with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Our so-called networked society has failed so far to transpose the logic of interconnectedness into our lives. Citizens are becoming increasingly machine-like and dependent on data, threatening the connection between humans and their natural habitats. In this talk, artist Joana Moll will try ...
UNTANGLING COMPLEXITY: Working on Anti-Corruption From the International to the Local Level
February 05, 2020 13:44 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBUNTANGLING COMPLEXITY: Working on Anti-Corruption From the International to the Local Level Max Heywood (Transparency International Global Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, UK/DE) and Stephan Ohme (Lawyer and Financial Expert, Transparency International Deutschland e. V., DE). In the fight against corruption, one of the key elements is making the complex and often hidden system of global economic power transparent. Through chapters in more than 100 countries and an international secretariat ...
ALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible Escapes
November 30, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible Escapes Caroline Sinders (Machine Learning Designer/User Researcher, Artist, Digital Anthropologist, USA/DE) and Sarah Grant (Media Artist and Educator, Radical Networks, USA/DE) in conversation with Ruth Catlow (Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Furtherfield, UK). Algorithms are not neutral and unbiased, but instead often reflect, reinforce and automate the current and historical biases and inequalities of society, such as social, racial and ge...
Panel: ON THE POLITICS OF AI: Fighting Injustice & Automatic Supremacism
October 29, 2019 16:52 - 2 hours - 120 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab ON THE POLITICS OF AI: Fighting Injustice & Automatic Supremacism Dia Kayyali (Leader of the Tech & Advocacy program at WITNESS, SY/US/DE), Os Keyes (Ada Lovelace Fellow, Human-Centred Design & Engineering, University of Washington, US), Dan McQuillan (Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Fou...
Keynote: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE AGE OF AI: The Future of Civil Rights in the United States
October 29, 2019 16:37 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE AGE OF AI: The Future of Civil Rights in the United States Mutale Nkonde (Tech Policy Advisor and Fellow at Data & Society Research Institute, US). Moderated by Rhianna Ilube (Writer, Curator and Host at The Advocacy Academy, UK/DE) To many, the questions posed to Mark Zuckerberg, during the Facebook Congressional Hearings displayed U.S. Hou...
Investigation: HOW IS GOVERNMENT USING BIG DATA?
October 29, 2019 16:31 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab HOW IS GOVERNMENT USING BIG DATA? Crofton Black (Researcher, Journalist & Writer, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK). Moderated by Daniel Eriksson (Head of Technology, Transparency International, SE/DE). AI, algorithms, deep learning, big data - barely a week goes by without a new revelation about our increasingly digital future. Computers will cure cancer, mak...
Keynote: WHAT IS A FEMINIST AI? Possible Feminisms, Possible Internets
October 29, 2019 16:25 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab WHAT IS A FEMINIST AI? Possible Feminisms, Possible Internets Charlotte Webb (Co-founder, Feminist Internet & Even Consultancy, UK). Moderated by Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE). What kind of new socio-political imaginary can be instantiated by attempting to design a Feminist Internet? How can feminist methods and values inform the deve...
Panel: AI FOR THE PEOPLE: AI Bias, Ethics & The Common Good
October 29, 2019 16:12 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab AI FOR THE PEOPLE: AI Bias, Ethics & The Common Good Maya Indira Ganesh (Research coordinator, AI & Media Philosophy ‘KIM’ Research Group, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design; PhD candidate, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, IN/DE), Slava Jankin (Professor of Data Science and Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance, UK/DE). Moderated by Nicole Shephard (Resear...
Panel: THE TRACKED & THE INVISIBLE: From Biometric Surveillance to Diversity in Data Science
October 29, 2019 16:07 - 1 hour - 81 MBAI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 2 The 16th conference of the Disruption Network Lab Adam Harvey (Artist and Researcher, US/DE), Sophie Searcy (Senior Data Scientist at Metis, US). Moderated by Adriana Groh (Head of Program Management, Prototype Fund, DE). Examples abound of AI creating harmful effects and it is good to track and understand these examples. But the next step is harder: how do the practitioners of AI improve what comes next and avoid ever...
Investigation: Forensic Architecture: Horizontal Verification and the Socialised Production of Evidence
October 28, 2019 16:56 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBCITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 3 The 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: Horizontal Verification and the Socialised Production of Evidence Robert Trafford / Forensic Architecture (Researcher, Open Source Investigations, UK). Moderated by Laurie Treffers (Freelance Journalist & Conflict Researcher, Airwars, NL). The institutions on which we have long relied, as producers of truth and to underscor...
Panel: Tracking Dictators, Diving For Leaks & Opening up Sensative Data
October 28, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBCITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 3 The 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab TRACKING DICTATORS, DIVING FOR LEAKS & OPENING UP SENSITIVE DATA Emmanuel Freudenthal (Freelance Investigative Journalist, Dictator Alert, FR/KY), Natalie Sedletska (Investigative Reporter & TV Host, UA), Brennan Novak & M C McGrath (Transparency Toolkit, US/DE). Moderated by Shannon Cunningham (Freelance Investigative Journalist, US/DE). This pa...
Keynote: Ghosts in the Woods and Uncann Entities: On How to Cover the Italian «NO TAV» Movement
October 28, 2019 12:07 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBCITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 3 The 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab GHOSTS IN THE WOODS AND UNCANNY ENTITIES: On How to Cover the Italian «NO TAV» Movement Wu Ming 1 (Author & Writer, Wu Ming Foundation, IT). Moderated by Alexandra Weltz-Rombach (Author & Filmmaker, DE). The Wu Ming collective is more known abroad as a «band of writers» authoring a particular strand of «metahistorical fiction», i.e. books like Q,...
Keynote: What Independent Investigation Don't Usually Disclose
October 28, 2019 11:38 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBCITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change The Art of Exposing Injustice - Part 3 The 17th conference of the Disruption Network Lab WHAT INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS DON’T USUALLY DISCLOSE Matthew Caruana Galizia (Investigative Journalist & Software Engineer, MLT). Moderated by Crina Boros (Investigative Reporter, UK). This keynote speech will address issues freelancers who investigate high-level corruption face in silence and isolation, often with tragic consequences. Calling a...
EXPOSING ABUSES
September 20, 2019 16:00 - 2 hours - 64.7 MBThis panel highlights how citizens are contributing on facilitating evidence, as well as how journalists, policy makers or activists are empowering voices against corruption and abuses. Reporting about three different local contexts, the speakers will reflect on how their work was effective in raising awareness, exposing human rights abuses, and building cases on neglected issues. Melissa Segura (Investigative Reporter, BuzzFeed News, US), Samuel Sinyangwe (Data Scientist & Policy Analyst,...
Panel: Prisoners of Dissent. Locked Up For Exposing Crimes
May 17, 2017 11:05 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBPRISONERS-OF-DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes. The 11th Event of the Disruption Network Lab Panel with Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE), Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK), Magnus Ag (senior program officer, Freemuse, DK/DE). Moderated by Annegret Falter (chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE). Final Q&A with the speakers and CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou. Presented in collaboration w...
Keynote: Doing Time Like a Spy. On Prison Survival and The CIA's War on Terror
May 17, 2017 10:42 - 1 hour - 86 MBPRISONERS-OF-DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes. The 11th Event of the Disruption Network Lab Keynote: Doing Time Like a Spy. On Prison Survival and the CIA's War on Terror. With John Kiriakou(CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA). Moderated by Magnus Ag (Senior Programm Officer, Freemuse, DK/DE) CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou is considered the first US intelligence officer to reveal information about the US intelligence community’s use of torture techniques. A long-time form...
Panel: Beyond Evidence. Finding Sources, Questioning Truth
December 07, 2016 19:24 - 2 hours - 127 MBTRUTH-TELLERS: The Impact of Speaking Out. The 10th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Panel: Beyond Evidence. Finding Sources, Questioning Truth with Jack Werner (investigative journalist, SE), Hans Bernhard / UBERMORGEN (artist, CH/USA/AT) Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo / !Mediengruppe Bitnik (artists, CH/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director of the Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). If we consider truth-telling as the act of providing clear facts and evidence, which is a keen...
Keynote: 50 Days of Lulz
December 07, 2016 12:53 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBTRUTH-TELLERS: The Impact of Speaking Out. The 10th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Keynote: 50 Days of Lulz with Mustafa Al-Bassam (alias Tflow, former core member, LulzSec, UK). Moderated by Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, Quebec, CA). This keynote presentation wants to trace back the so-called "50 Days of Lulz" (“lulz” as a derivation of lol, laugh out loud), 50 days of high profile attacks by the hacker group named “LulzSe...
Manipulation Incorporated: On Social Media Targeting, Self-Branding, and Emotional Pornification
December 01, 2016 16:39 - 1 hour - 103 MBIGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge. The 9th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Panel: Manipulation Incorporated: On Social Media Targeting, Self-Branding, and Emotional Pornification with Ippolita (activists and writers, IT), Hannah Jane Parkinson (digital culture journalist and writer, UK), and Vladan Joler (SHARE Foundation director, chair of New Media Department, University of Novi Sad, RS). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (artistic director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Which str...
The Forbidden, the Doubtful and the Moral. What Could Be Known But Isn’t
December 01, 2016 15:44 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBIGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge. The 9th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Panel: The Forbidden, the Doubtful and the Moral. What Could Be Known But Isn’t with Joanna Kempner (sociologist, US), Jamie Allen (artist and researcher, CA/CH), Jan Willem Wieland (philosopher and researcher, NL). Moderated by Teresa Dillon (artist and researcher, IE/DE/UK). While it is difficult enough to develop what has been termed “negative knowledge”, that is, knowledge about the limits of knowledge (Ka...
Keynote: Ignorance. How to Know About Not Knowing
December 01, 2016 15:26 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBIGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge. The 9th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Keynote: Ignorance. How to Know about Not Knowing with Matthias Gross (sociologist and science studies scholar, DE). Moderated by Daniela Silvestrin (curator, Disruption Network Lab, DE). In his keynote, Matthias Gross will present the publication and overview of inquiries within the field of ignorance studies he co-edited together with Linsey McGoey: Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today h...
Panel: Cable Breaks. The Powers Below the Surface
June 19, 2016 15:41 - 2 hours - 112 MBDEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World. The 8th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Panel: Cable Breaks. The Powers Below the Surface with Ingrid Burrington (artist and researcher, USA), Helga Tawil-Souri (associate professor Middle East and Islamic Studies NYU, Palestine/USA), Gabriele “Asbesto” Zaverio (sysadmin, co-founder, MusIF, FreakNet MediaLab, IT). Moderated by Jacob Lillemose (postdoctoral researcher and curator, Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, DK). If the Interne...
Keynote: The Internet, Really. Behind the Scenes of Our Everyday Lives
June 19, 2016 14:54 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBDEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World. The 8th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Keynote: The Internet, Really. Behind the Scenes of Our Everyday Lives with Andrew Blum (writer & journalist, USA). Respondent: Bernd Fix (computer security expert, Wau Holland Stiftung, DE). In the book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (German title: Kabelsalat), journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet’s physical infrastructure, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online wor...
Panel: Dirty Cables. The Technology & Politics of Network Infrastructures
June 19, 2016 14:14 - 1 hour - 102 MBDEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World. The 8th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Panel: Dirty Cables. The Technology & Politics of Network Infrastructures with Moritz Metz (radio journalist, DE), Marc Helmus (network operator and engineer, DE), Anne Roth (net activist, senior advisor for the German Parliamentary Inquiry on Mass Surveillance for the group Die Linke, DE). Moderated by Anna Biselli (journalist, Netzpolitik.org, DE). This panel investigates the materiality and hidden...
Keynote: Network Exposed. Charting the Invisible
June 19, 2016 12:57 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBDEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World. The 8th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Keynote: Network Exposed. Charting the Invisible with Henrik Moltke (investigative journalist, DK/USA), Trevor Paglen (artist and geographer, USA). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (artistic director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Note: Trevor Paglen's presentation is not recorded. In August 2015 Henrik Moltke and a team of journalists from Pro Publica and the New York Times revealed intimate detai...
Panel: Stunts & Dumps - The Making of a Viral Cause
December 18, 2015 08:45 - 2 hours - 114 MBMustafa Al-Bassam (https://twitter.com/musalbas) (alias Tflow, former core member of LulzSec, UK), Jean Peters (https://twitter.com/jeangleur) (co-founder Peng! collective, DE), M. C. McGrath (https://twitter.com/shidash?lang=de) (founder of Transparency Toolkit, USA/DE), Andrea Natella (http://www.andreanatella.it) (former Luther Blissett conspirator, creative director of guerrigliamarketing.it and KOOK Artgency, IT). Moderated by Ruth Catlow (http://furtherfield.org/user/ruth-catlow) (co-fo...
Keynote: Find out what you are 'supposed to do' - then do something else.
December 17, 2015 22:53 - 1 hour - 88 MBJohn Law (original member of the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society ((http://www.cacophony.org)); co-founder of the Billboard Liberation Front and of the Burning Man Festival, USA). Moderated by Marie Lechner (journalist and researcher, FR). How everything started in San Francisco Rumors of pie wielding assassins and a cryptic invitation to explore the miasmal underbelly of the urban landscape seen in a hippy free university calendar in 1977, was enough to enflame the curiosity of sevente...
Short: PiggyBankGirls: Erotic Crowdfunding for Girls
November 03, 2015 15:31 - 2 hours - 113 MBPiggyBankGirls: Erotic Crowdfunding for Girls Short video with Sascha Schoonen (CEO, PiggyBankGirls, DE) This video shot specifically for our conference event presents and introduces to the public the new-born platform “PiggyBankGirls”, the first erotic crowdfunding platform for girls, where women get into the erotic business for a specific goal, trying to get their ideas and projects funded by supporters via their online porn performances. The CEO of the platform, Sascha Schoonen, introduces...
Keynote: Carmen Rivera Entertainment: Deconstructing Power, Sharing BDSM
November 03, 2015 14:57 - 1 hour - 74 MBA keynote with Carmen Rivera (Mistress and Fetish-SM-performer, DE). Moderated by Gaia Novati (net activist and researcher on indie porn, IT/DE) In this special event, Carmen Rivera will share with the public the “secrets” of her carrier as a Mistress, being since many years involved in the field as erotic photographer and fetish model, dancer, and erotic show moderator. Founder of one of the first SM communities in Germany in the 1990s, she will share with the public her background in the sh...
Panel: XXXPLICIT. From Porn Tubes to Online Sex Working
November 03, 2015 13:32 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBPanel: XXXPLICIT. From Porn Tubes to Online Sex Working This panel investigates the evolution of the sex and porn business, from the early days of webcam work to the creation of porntubes and commercial contemporary online porn platforms (PornoTube, RedTube, YouPorn, etc.). From one side, this development will be analysed technologically by highlighting the transformation in the field of pornography of the major adult-only platforms, presenting new disruptive business models of sharing porn; ...
SAMIZDATA: Strategies for Resistance
September 14, 2015 10:58 - 1 hour - 106 MBStrategies for Resistance Jørgen Johansen (https://twitter.com/jrgenjohansen) (researcher on resistance studies, civil disobedience and whistleblowing, NO), Jaromil (https://jaromil.dyne.org/) (hacktivist, IT/NL), Sophie Toupin (https://twitter.com/stoopt) (researcher and feminist techno/activist, QC/CA), moderated by Valie Djordjevic (https://twitter.com/validd) (net activist, DE). What does it mean today to speak about “resistance” on the net and beyond more than two years after the first o...
SAMIZDATA: Evidence of conspiracy
September 12, 2015 21:22 - 2 hours - 125 MBThis two-day event is in collaboration with SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy (http://www.nomeproject.com/news/nome-presents-jacob-appelbaums-first-solo-show), Jacob Appelbaum’s first solo show in Germany at NOME (http://nomeproject.com) Speakers: Jacob Appelbaum (https://twitter.com/ioerror?lang=de) (journalist, artist and researcher, USA/DE), Laura Poitras (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras) (Academy Award-winning filmmaker and journalist, USA), Theresa Züger (https://twitter.com/...