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2018:
- sessionID: 18010
title: "Wireless Toronto"
presenterID:
- gabe
link: "http://wirelesstoronto.ca/"
linkDisplay: "wirelesstoronto.ca"
description: "Wireless Toronto is a community wireless network run by volunteers, dedicated to the growth of no-cost wireless Internet access in Toronto's public and publicly accessible spaces. Since the group's founding in May 2005, volunteers set up almost 40 hotspots across the GTA, including some of the city's largest: St. Lawrence Market, Yonge-Dundas Square, and the York Quay Centre at Harbourfront.
At its peak, the network served over 1000 connections per day.
For a variety of reasons, the Wireless Toronto network has shrunk over time, and today only a handful of nodes remain active. This presentation will outline the group's history, successes and learnings."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/1"
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "VCLhODLwddw"
ipfs720: "Qme8TaDvDX9eduymzDw5DFdpuqx11xq967PGMNafXawdpM"
ipfs1080: "QmS1PB42fYmBJbdhyyJXKzhrYKo3sy4XvqUQWJtQJQeqhg"
- sessionID: 18030
title: "Peer-to-peer applications on a mesh network"
presenterID:
- benedict
description: "In this session, I will present Mesh Orange, a Debian-based router that runs on various single-board computers (SBCs), which together form an autonomous encrypted mesh network. The operating system supports various WiFi hardware and features a configuration system that allows local mesh communities to specify custom hardware settings. After walking through the steps to form a physical mesh network with Mesh Orange, we will run peer-to-peer applications on these SBCs to show a possible internet where networked applications are serviced by distributed protocols communicating over physical nodes arranged in a mesh topology."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/3"
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.25
youtube: "QtIqtd0YOvw"
ipfs720: "QmePW5VKnpM44X2pTcFEgJ8mbTc5bgaYy6qkismZeYkMZo"
ipfs1080: "QmbkBmVziTnQyEaCjaZtT8ucth2cwX2VsTFip5YHrebFCS"
- sessionID: 18040
title: "Live streaming over IPFS"
presenterID:
- yurko
description: "In this session, I will present how IPFS and HLS came together to allow us to build a distributed live stream for this conference."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/17"
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.25
youtube: "ZYm7cexgSpY"
ipfs720: "QmNtSy8JxmURQzFmW5r44JV6T3KfatLbEFFvePG1a1xK8i"
ipfs1080: "QmT9aFwHo5Sh197ubcDC6zprNkDdb6hkh1uEf2PNqnDLkF"
- sessionID: 18050
title: "Money and mesh networks"
presenterID:
- jessica
- ashoka
presenterID-2: "ashoka"
description: "A talk exploring the question is it possible to build/manage communal mesh infrastructure in a decentralized fashion and pay contributors fairly, all while staying true to an ethos of providing free/low-cost Internet to those who want it? and a possible answer."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/5"
sessionType: "discussion"
theme: "Incentivized Networks"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "hxq2SKoVzTA"
ipfs720: "QmSVYASXXnhK3vF4qPraK4jfgBp1ZzMwDXX2xii2FhhrzB"
ipfs1080: "QmdXZXwWQzTv8CHA66HowLcysjsfepVNGr9vcnRTDzTphb"
- sessionID: 18070
title: "Understanding blockchains with Scrabble"
presenterID:
- sarah
- david
description: "'What even is a proof-of-work based globally distributed ledger?'
Blockchain is everywhere these days - from finance and law, to kitten-collecting, dating-apps, and ice tea companies. This workshop will explore what this technology offers, how it works, and what it can and cannot do in a friendly, playful setting. We will introduce the basics of how blockchains work in a short presentation, and then expand on them with a facilitated session of Scrabits, a modified version of scrabble based on the bitcoin blockchain. Concepts explored will be - what is a ledger, what are the unique challenges of maintaining a decentralized way, and how bitcoin solves these problems."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/7"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
- sessionID: 18090
title: "City of experiences: The network and the city"
presenterID:
- douc
link: "http://wearedouc.com/"
linkDisplay: "wearedouc.com"
instagram: "douc_to"
twitter: "cristoforo_DoUC"
description: "We are living in a fluid existence between the virtual and physical worlds. The urban development models of the past are beginning to fall short in creating cities that support the reality of our current existence. Networks aren't just nodes and links designated by code—they are accessed and used by real people over physical infrastructure that exists in physical space. How does the network interface with the city, and with the public? What are the individual and collective experiences and interactions that are enabled by these networks in practice?"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/9"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 2
- sessionID: 18100
title: "The hybrid step toward migrating to P2P: Adding P2P backend to current centralized apps"
presenterID:
- vmon
link: "https://github.com/equalitie/ouinet"
linkDisplay: "Ouinet"
description: "Currently, most websites and apps depend on centralized servers despite the limitations of this structure. Migration towards P2P architectures may be encouraged by solutions which support the current centralized paradigm while taking advantage of P2P architectures, making apps more resilient to interference and letting users' devices empower the underlying P2P network. For that reason we created Ouinet, a technology where an entire cooperative network helps serve HTTP requests using P2P routing and distributed cached responses, mitigating the single point of failure due to client apps not being able to connect to the server.
We will discuss the philosophy and design behind Ouinet, how we integrated various P2P technologies such as IPFS and I2P to achieve its objectives, and demonstrate how an alpha implementation can be integrated in Android apps to defy network interference while saving on server bandwidth and remote resources, as we shall also see during the sprints days."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/10"
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "i6Frd75wPIE"
ipfs720: "QmVYB1VFRKfG3ioGL7Lv4FHDRjeygwW59WPXCsBpsxb2Gc"
ipfs1080: "QmVMhYj3QzStSPw6PvPdUW1Xd5FguNnq5Btp9kC2EyrNrd"
- sessionID: 18110
title: "Web archiving as DIY and DIWO"
presenterID:
- emily
description: "As the internet evolves and changes, what material of the internet's past will continue to be available? What is being actively preserved for the future, and who is doing this work? In this session I'll discuss my doctoral research project that explores these questions through two cases studies of web archiving by national libraries and academic research libraries which are part of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. These cases are representative of the many web archiving initiatives and practices tied to existing centralized structures - supported by government and academic institutions, as well as methods of crawling tied to infrastructures like country code top-level domains. These institutional efforts can be seen to contrast with distributed communities like Archiveteam as well as activist and community web archives. And increasingly, individual people can also create and curate their own collections with tools like webrecorder.io that are geared towards users who are not coders."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/11"
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.25
youtube: "ZQmTCPsafkw"
ipfs720: "QmPtKBecxWWNP3frvSi9hUZocpgj8Ea1DWQx6qtFoqvitM"
ipfs1080: "Qmbn2Jy5Jyw9f4Xcjk3AJKmEVE1xiA4ZMjhpeGvi6LQgVQ"
- sessionID: 18120
title: "Building something together with local networks"
presenterID:
- cecylia
- lauren
link: "http://www.mazizone.eu/"
linkDisplay: "mazizone.eu"
description: "The Internet as it exists today is not an ideal tool for liberation or the exploration of something new. The infrastructure is largely corporation and state owned and controlled. In this demonstration, we look at working with communities to build local networks: small pockets of exploration that have the potential to become whatever we can dream up together. We will be demonstrating the MAZI zone toolkit (meaning 'together' in Greek), and the results of a pilot study by the nomadic group unMonastery and community members of the Zagori region in Greece."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/12"
sessionType: "demo"
date: 2018-07-14
length:
youtube: "eaNBUBV0aKQ"
ipfs720: "QmZzHGkci41xWkS6VPGmpEBoKWJzYXZNJGepyrcwvMRYad"
ipfs1080: "QmRC5i25CJAkKCTq22mPr19yYfykbtMug9NbhCUrseWtkF"
- sessionID: 18140
title: "Althea a more distributed ISP"
presenterID:
- justin
link: "https://altheamesh.com/"
linkDisplay: "altheamesh.com"
description: "Althea is a protocol that allows people to easily buy and sell bandwidth from each other. The session will cover the design choices and philosophy of Alteha's mesh networking technology. As well as setup a basic mesh network on stage to show off."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/14"
sessionType: "demo"
theme: "Incentivized Networks"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "cUzdthZpjQY"
ipfs720: "QmeDdoqpScv1Pm4zDWMeiAxkhmKnCUevDL7LjbZm2LvttD"
ipfs1080: "QmfZaho2FZgz3us8vbyK5ueYtQjMx174CASYLaReXsUP6d"
- sessionID: 18150
title: "Holding Data Together: Decentralized patterns for stewardship"
presenterID:
- b5
link: "https://datatogether.org/"
linkDisplay: "datatogether.org"
description: "Formed in the wake of grassroots archiving efforts undertaken in 2017, Data Together seeks to contribute to a civic layer of the internet where communities use decentralized technologies to steward data they care about. Since July 2017, founding partners EDGI, qri.io, and Protocol Labs, have been prototyping open source and decentralized archiving of web pages and data sets using IPFS. Initiatives also include public engagement through in-person events and topical roundtable conversations through online webinars.
This talk will speak to the tensions and successes in our early prototypes and address the values motivating our work."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/15"
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
theme: "Politics of Networks"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.25
youtube: "4mIeV890ymg"
ipfs720: "QmXDLFpTce1A5vuTssrcjwNTFCC8TKqRHkicGy6C3i5PGY"
ipfs1080: "QmXAfHZtPGGskDZPGSQ11eGo3Ac6T72YWNiftgjJXH6qHD"
- sessionID: 18160
title: "Protocol tactics"
presenterID:
- lars
description: "The philosophers have only interpreted the internet, the point is to change it.
IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more protocols set the boundaries of what we do on the internet. Their specifications and implementations have enabled many great advances, but some of these advances have revealed structures and mechanisms that are objectively counter to their users' needs and wants.
Our communities are radical in many ways, and some of our shared principles are
accessibility, ubiquity, sustainability, resilience, and impact.
We'll look at effective tactics used by protocols, old and new, to achieve these principles."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/16"
sessionType: "talk"
theme: "Politics of Networks"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "v3WSU_W9xkE"
ipfs720: "QmRteJr9TSyLoWgki5ZVnYikmBfCrKE2L2XvaY128egGPh"
ipfs1080: "QmexHoTeJykKxcs1TuoXSvzqiuQ6tB8n1iKcywFudkmV3E"
- sessionID: 18180
title: "Community networks, a perspective from freedom of expression and access to information"
presenterID:
- vladimir
link: "https://articulo19.org/"
linkDisplay: "articulo19.org"
description: "The digital divide in Mexico is not just a matter of connectivity. The deployment of physical infrastructure must be coupled with a cultural, linguistic and community perspective, able to provide internet access as a way to exercise a wide range of rights. Article 19 Mexico and Central America office is doing field work in the state of Chiapas to analyze, from a broad perspective, the impact of connectivity policies and the lack to internet access on indigenous communities and the raising of local initiatives to build community networks. The project is linked to the work of the organization to promote proactive transparency that allows people, particularly women, to use access to information mechanisms to defend other rights.
Sharing this experience is an opportunity, firstly to present preliminary results of the field work but also to generate significant links with other initiatives looking to consolidate long term projects in which communities play an active role to promote access to Internet, develop strategies for digital literacy and appropriate the use ICTs."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/18"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 2
- sessionID: 18190
title: "What do we want?"
presenterID:
- justint
- cecylia
description: "In the world we live in, there is a near-universal social norm that says greater connectivity, a more global web, and more pervasive digital networks are an inherent good. We see this sentiment reflected everywhere, from the obvious manifestations in IoT devices, cellphones, and Facebook, to more implicit forms, such as in the fights for greater digital security, more censorship-resistant communication, or more distributed control of these networks. As communities involved in shaping the future of these networks, and whose futures will in turn be shaped by them, it seems worth asking: Is a more networked world really always what we want?
Rather than try to answer this question directly, we will instead provide a short introduction to the topic, then help guide an open discussion, focusing on what it means in practice for us involved in the development of these networks."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/19"
sessionType: "discussion"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
- sessionID: 18200
title: "Fandom as an alternative network"
presenterID:
- rea
- owen
- maya
description: "The interdisciplinary creative practices of fandom — whether it be fanfiction, fanart, or cosplay — challenge our previously held notions of authorship, but also uphold the open internet's emancipatory values. Networked-based online creations thrive within particular fandoms, and its community-based model has enabled authors to create works that bring in feminist as well as queer and critical race studies approaches, especially through genres like slash. So how are these fan methodologies reshaping the practices of artists and curators? This conversation will map out the ways in which three 'fans' AKA contemporary artists/curators are bringing these so-called fan perspectives into their work, and explore how fandom cultivates alternative means of capacity-building and storytelling."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/20"
sessionType: "panel"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
youtube: "ptxzxEy-goI"
ipfs720: "Qmdz1mMaC9Urpf7tqsk8TatFwCAwmPrrRD88Zcq2wLF4Ze"
ipfs1080: "QmWvJ8HbTpaDTYAYtZFNwomyZr21YEwTp1bfQGT7Vxjz8w"
- sessionID: 18210
title: "Using Qri for distributed data collaboration"
presenterID:
- b5
description: "qri.io ('query') is an open source peer-2-peer data collaboration tool. In the spirit of 'do it with others' this workshop will engage participants to each develop their own dataset of citations they'd like to share such as books, online articles, and blog posts. Participants will then publish these datasets on the distributed web using qri, and from there we'll work together to combine the sum of these datasets into a collection of citations. We'll then render these datasets as web pages using traditional web technologies, making our collection of citations available to a broader audience, while also providing access to the raw data for others to build upon."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/21"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
- sessionID: 18220
title: "Cadences of connection and exchange: Planning and modeling activity centered networks"
presenterID:
- curtis
description: "Although we access internet from many locations acoss our communications, our expectations for connectivity and availability of content are somewhat more static. In these moments our experience of the networked connectivity is embedded in not only files and bandwidth, but also mixes the activities of passerby and environmental features. Our ways of accessing information (i.e. files, content, etc) could be significantly diversified in networks without ubiquitous (centrally provided) broadband, where access might be linked to the physical environment or physical storage, such as in dead drops or Cuba's budding public wifi access or their 'sneakernet' style paquete semanal.
What might happen when network connectivity works differently in shared spaces of transit, leisure and work? What are the possible benefits of challenging the expectation of ubiquitous broadband and the cadence of constant connectivity- the what ethical issues might arise? Can we create different sorts of networks that fit the constraints and character of different spaces and human activities around them?"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/22"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 2
- sessionID: 18231
title: "The artists network, the data-body, and the social-body"
presenterID:
- jennifer
description: "'Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter net art is for people, minds and bodies. Electronic art educational inter net television. Not so hard to imagine.' -Peer Bode (Experimental Television Center)
This talk begins from a seemingly simple cultural historical premise: that the Net Art/Anti-Globalism movement theories of data-bodies, new forms of civil disobedience, and the performative matrix of artist networks between virtual and real spaces were formed under pre-digital conditions and artistic practices based in the intermedia movement. More importantly, I argue that pre-digital practices of the artist communications infrastructure as both network and counterinstitution--derived from media revolutions of the underground press, conceptual and process art practices of social sculpture, and working class progressivist artist workers movements of the 20th century--allowed for counterhegemonic deterritorializations and reterritorializations of emergent media networks and resources. These intermedia cultural movements prioritized hybrid ontologies and adapted tactically from the pre-digital to digital cusp through media ecologies of electronic globalization characterizing neoliberal mobility and modularity."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/23"
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
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- sessionID: 18232
title: "The artists network workshop"
presenterID:
- jennifer
description: "'Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter net art is for people, minds and bodies. Electronic art educational inter net television. Not so hard to imagine.' -Peer Bode (Experimental Television Center)
This talk begins from a seemingly simple cultural historical premise: that the Net Art/Anti-Globalism movement theories of data-bodies, new forms of civil disobedience, and the performative matrix of artist networks between virtual and real spaces were formed under pre-digital conditions and artistic practices based in the intermedia movement. More importantly, I argue that pre-digital practices of the artist communications infrastructure as both network and counterinstitution--derived from media revolutions of the underground press, conceptual and process art practices of social sculpture, and working class progressivist artist workers movements of the 20th century--allowed for counterhegemonic deterritorializations and reterritorializations of emergent media networks and resources. These intermedia cultural movements prioritized hybrid ontologies and adapted tactically from the pre-digital to digital cusp through media ecologies of electronic globalization characterizing neoliberal mobility and modularity."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/23"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
- sessionID: 18241
title: "Our _stable_ networks"
presenterID:
- grant
- jenny
link: "https://peoplesopen.net/"
linkDisplay: "peoplesopen.net"
github: "sudomesh"
description: "What does a 'stable' deployment of a community mesh network look like?
During this session, we will look at successful community wireless projects around the world, see how they are structured, both organizationally and technologically.
In particular, participants will learn what a stable implementation of a People's Open Network might look like directly from the people building one in Oakland, CA.
Finally, we will facilitate an open discussion about defining network stability and organizational values that could help maintain that stability."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/24"
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.5
youtube: "gDtO0qRAuTA"
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- sessionID: 18242
title: "Our _stable_ networks workshop"
presenterID:
- grant
- jenny
description: "What does a 'stable' deployment of a community mesh network look like?
During this session, we will look at successful community wireless projects around the world, see how they are structured, both organizationally and technologically.
In particular, participants will learn what a stable implementation of a People's Open Network might look like directly from the people building one in Oakland, CA.
Finally, we will facilitate an open discussion about defining network stability and organizational values that could help maintain that stability."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/24"
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 2
- sessionID: 18250
title: "Aether: Distributing social networks without distributed consensus"
presenterID:
- burak
link: https://getaether.net/
linkDisplay: Aether
description: "The ongoing discussion about decentralisation has been dominated by the talk of blockchains lately. While they do work in certain fields, in social networks the bottleneck and restrictions imposed by the distributed consensus render it challenging to build a social network on a blockchain that does not suffer from speed issues.
This talk explores a different way of building networks that does not depend on distributed consensus. By making a small number of tradeoffs, it is possible to build a network that can scale to 10^3x the speed in inserting new data and distributing it. Aether is one such attempt, and both it and the underlying protocol is open source. This talk will focus on how it ended up coming to be, why, and how it works, and what you can build with the underlying protocol."
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/25"
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.5
youtube: "A9zL2csO7t8"
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ipfs1080: "QmPk33q8z8GHhJoDKXGDGn5CWFu61TzTprgupfGe4VNwho"
- sessionID: 18991
title: "Opening remarks"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2018-submissions/issues/"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 0.5
youtube: "0X95Nybu2g8"
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- sessionID: 18992
title: "Closing remarks"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2018-07-15
length: 0.5
youtube: "hwjeNX-9K58"
ipfs720: "QmRmJip9agFXbckr8ZPFb4Fdwn54Xi9iyWh1NdT1D7cmtS"
ipfs1080: "QmRVhwmQEGdxeLNUq41exH8GJTXY4ZPV45Ktto8VxJRhi7"
- sessionID: 18993
title: "Lightning Talks"
sessionType: "lightning"
date: 2018-07-15
length: 1.0
- sessionID: 18994
title: "Sprint Pitches"
sessionType: "sprint-pitch"
date: 2018-07-15
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 18997
title: "Keynote: Nasma Ahmed, Navigating digital futures"
sessionType: "keynote"
date: 2018-07-14
length: 1
2019:
- sessionID: 19990
title: "Registration"
sessionType: "orga"
- sessionID: 199901
title: "Screenprint our swag"
sessionType: "orga"
- sessionID: 19991
title: "Coffee break"
sessionType: "orga"
length: 0.25
- sessionID: 19992
title: "Lunch"
sessionType: "orga"
- sessionID: 19993
title: "Kickoff party"
sessionType: "orga"
- sessionID: 19994
title: "Keynote: Dr. Jennifer Wemigwans, A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online"
sessionType: "keynote"
description: >
A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online looks at ways to advance Indigenous Knowledge on the Internet through Indigenous protocols and ethics while demonstrating a profound appreciation for Indigenous Knowledge systems.
date: 2019-09-20
length: 1.5
youtube: "undc68wvMoA"
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ipfs1080: "QmWj2qwrGAG43F6zgAYhQGkXHBQpfLWfMGhMpEuLhcVxCB"
- sessionID: 19995
title: "Keynote panel: May First, technology and revolution"
description: |
Technology has so fundamentally changed our society that any strategy for social change must be altered to address its power over us. But it also gives us the potential to develop and realize the kind of society we all want and to do that within our lifetimes. Information technology is the most powerful tool for change we have.
Since 2017, 25 local convergences have brought together over 1,500 activists from the U.S. to talk about the intersection between technology and revolution. The results of this two-year project can be viewed in the program that emerged from those sessions summarized in the video linked below.
techandrev.org
We want to continue that process in a Tech and Rev session at this conference with our convergence here adding to and editing the program as it now stands.
Panel speakers are:
> Alfredo Lopez, May First Movement Technology
> Ellie Ade Kur, Maggie's
> Lorraine Chuen, IntersectTO
> Victoria Barnett, Design Justice Network
sessionType: "keynote"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1.5
presenterID:
- alfredo
youtube: "39PGRWO_ygU"
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ipfs1080: "QmUUbsQgYpEhVMFdww32zLSKyu5D8zQPn5MLx8TZ6oXVQm"
- sessionID: 19996
title: "Outdoor screening"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1.5
- sessionID: 19997
title: "Lightning talks"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2019-09-22
length: 1.5
- sessionID: 19998
title: "Opening remarks"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 19999
title: "Closing remarks"
sessionType: "orga"
date: 2019-09-22
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 19003
title: "DHT, BFT, OMG: Know your building blocks for decentralized applications (2019 edition)"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/3"
presenterID:
- kirill
description: >
If the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? Then why wonder how came our engineers are mostly building centralized client-server data silos, if in the core of their curriculums usually lies a mental model of computing from 70s, with a singular mainframe being programmed and used from multiple "dumb" terminals. And then history replicates itself, and modern-day Facebook uses our multi-GHz, multi-GB, multi-core devices as dumb terminals of sorts. Let's see what tools and approaches are there at your command, if you decide to build something else, something more decentralized, more resilient, frequently more performant and bringing agency back to end users.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 0.75
youtube: "ccrSikGo22E"
ipfs720: "QmdZG4nE1v1Fiwh7ixcxcDynSZ7yCr2K52oozzHeEvpaTy"
ipfs1080: "QmPYoWZA9xGhhrGjnZZnoa5FLWoNq6LVo4xmS8reQSqu4Q"
- sessionID: 19004
title: "Amazonification: Decoding scarcity as weaponized precarity"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/4"
presenterID:
- hiba
description: >
Workers' rights are losing respect, the power of technology is not fully understood – gone are the eras of strength of 1940s US labor unions. A financial environment cushioned by unregulated laws created an orange-coloured disease, Amazon, that systemically targets poor people, Black communities and communities of color. It spreads precarity as a contagion, strengthens digital redlining, and produces predatory surveillance: Amazon, the company, has changed the world. Also, it has changed the word. Amazon will come to solely signify the company and not the Brazilian rainforest. I will speak on the 'Amazonification' of the world and its role in spreading neoliberal ecoterrorism by remapping environmental scarcity as precarity onto vulnerable populations. I will connect this to the company's predatory system of surveillance through its in-house facial recognition software and serving as the tech-backbone of ICE. Through the innocuous frame of consumption, this talk and screening decrypts the 'success' behind corporate rendering of workers' labor as invisible and through its AI algorithms extending the carceral state.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 0.75
- sessionID: 19005
title: "Mesh lightning talks"
sessionType: "talks"
description: |
>> NYC Mesh > Jillian Murphy and Scott Rasmussen
>> Sarantaporo.gr > Vassilis Chryssos
>> Althea > Liz G
>> Freifunk > Felix Kaechele
date: 2019-09-22
length: 1.0
- sessionID: 19006
title: "Made in Iran"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/5"
presenterID:
- farhad
description: >
Made in Iran is the outcome of several interviews with 12 Iranian individuals, living in the United States, whose lives are affected by the travel ban. Throughout this conversation they portrayed how, as the result of recent feuds between the two countries, their identities are often assumed by others to only comprise their nationality. In this project I tried to portray their complexity, depth and presence by interviewing them and asking them to share in a series of words and images that more accurately reflects their identity.
sessionType: "exhibit"
images:
- src: farhad-1.jpg
alt: Made in Iran, Farhad Bahram
width: 70%
- src: farhad-2.jpg
width: 28.3%
alt: Made in Iran, Farhad Bahram
- sessionID: 19007
title: "Collaboratively backing up IPFS content with IPFS Cluster"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/7"
presenterID:
- hector
description: >
IPFS Cluster is an open-source, distributed application that works as a side-kick for the IPFS daemon. It allows to coordinate multiple daemons to backup a single list of content (pinset). This includes cloud deployments to ensure availability and reliability of content in the ipfs network as well as loose clusters to backup interesting items (i.e. cat pictures) in a collaborative fashion among volunteers willing to provide some disk space.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19008
title: "A technical introduction to IPFS"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/8"
presenterID:
- hector
description: >
The Interplanetary FileSystem provides a networked, distributed filesystem to retrieve files and folders among multiple parties without a central server. It is efficient, resilient and hard to censor but, how does it work at all? This talk will give an technical introduction for non-technical people to the main concepts behind the IPFS-stack. Participants will learn the different pieces on which a system like IPFS is built upon and how they're all glued together.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "hnigvVuoaIA"
ipfs720: "QmNtQiSK7dZbMCH89kgBLzgfMQP3UoWqT2QKWvjtVt2jTx"
ipfs1080: "QmVEW7WjJsh8W9EGYfq5d4kjJ2XzDDL5ZQy6VXZ2LcMXZt"
- sessionID: 19009
title: "Publishing your first decentralized website with Dat"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/9"
presenterID:
- georgiy
description: >
The current state of the web is giant silos of data from giant corporations that don't care about your privacy. Creating something on your own terms means hosting hardware, learning "back end" programming, and all sorts of barriers to entry. Luckily, decentralized and P2P technology has gotten really popular. The distributed web is actually a lot easier to work with that you might expect, and doesn't require any "back end" experience. Dat is a P2P protocol that makes it easy to share and update files over a Peer To Peer network. What's more, people can create websites with it directly from a web browser. This workshop will walk people through publishing their first P2P website using Dat and some retro-feeling HTML. Bring your laptop or phone and expect garish colors, obnoxious GIFs, and the <marquee> element.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19010
title: "Social, artistic, and theoretical experiments with decentralized festivals"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/10"
presenterID:
- andreas
description: >
This is a technical, artistic, theoretical reflection on how we use technology to run and experiment with decentralised festivals in Berlin. VERANTWORTUNG 3000 (2016), HOFFNUNG 3000 (2017) and now p2panda are platforms and protocols to setup groups, festivals, gatherings, events or spaces in a decentralised, self-organised manner which allow us to raise questions on how we organise ourselves in our social, artistic & theoretical communities. We will look into implementations / realisations of decentralised festivals and talk about how they influenced our way of discussing and producing art and technology. Finally we will discuss p2panda, an idea of a p2p protocol for organising resources, places and events based on a new data structure named »bamboo«, which is inspired by the SSB protocol.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "Teu0xkQ7FvU"
ipfs720: "QmQuzgTJFeya8mJ6yozc5ndowDxvysxjWAnQgMHWB2eSMN"
ipfs1080: "QmetkRpcPihomCTfdLZcdmj3sGMvea1FawjR7neipVYhQt"
- sessionID: 19011
title: "Currency"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/11"
presenterID:
- sphere
description: >
'Currency' is an electronic game and custom game console constructed from an obsolete 1917 Burroughs adding machine and a microcontroller. The console monitors the exchange rate of bitcoins to US dollars and uses this data to generate a game level that prints out on a roll of receipt paper. Using the adding machine's grid of numeric buttons, players attempt to pull two columns of printed ASCII symbols together while being either aided or impeded by the current Bitcoin value.
sessionType: "exhibit"
date: 2019-09-20
images:
- src: sphere-1.jpg
alt: Currency, Sphere Collective
width: 47.5%
- src: sphere-2.jpg
width: 51.7%
alt: Currency, Sphere Collective
- sessionID: 19012
title: "Collective resistance to state controls on information"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/12"
presenterID:
- cecylia
description: >
As resistance to state control continues to grow, states are reacting by tightening the restrictions on the flow of information surrounding these uprisings and protests. One of the main tools at their disposal is to leverage their control over centralized Internet infrastructure to block access to news sites, social media, and content that threaten their authority. Tor Project is working on a way to circumvent these restrictions on information. This talk will describe a way we can collectively fight back by hosting P2P proxies in our browsers to share our agency with others. Snowflake is a new censorship circumvention tool that relies on the participation of many to further widen the cracks in state-imposed Internet firewalls.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "5QJ6Am2hHoU"
ipfs720: "QmUNXRGpieHHNukZiNPEDP38V9tP4UeVZX6cn8Rv4spLgh"
ipfs1080: "QmRJcehUBNZnDUvSHJg97Aeus8AXw5rtF1oxMtRYkevBwV"
- sessionID: 19013
title: "Spectacular grammar: Infrastructure as a Universal language"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/13"
presenterID:
- renee
description: >
This paper proposes information technology (IT) infrastructure is formulating a universal language. It dips into historic efforts to create a universal language via avant garde filmmaking and Gottfried Leibniz's characteristica universalis. It then explains how international standardization organizations are developing the globally unified infrastructural language through their regulations. The paper weighs the benefits and consequences of a universal language by looking into who IT infrastructure serves and who is excluded. As Marshall McLuhan inferred in his 1964 essay, 'The Medium is the Message,' technology becomes inseparable from the messages it transmits, adding another layer of meaning to what is communicated; language, in turn, starts to be shaped around the tools that facilitate it. Thus, IT infrastructure is not just a tool to communicate, but is part of language itself.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "nGRXz_rBpyg"
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ipfs1080: "QmUJs828esqruJkh1d1PNM3XAgWdsKZe2a22nB1Eo8NpBy"
- sessionID: 19014
title: "Channel channel, a network for VPN access"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/14"
presenterID:
- biyi
description: >
Channel Channel is a project that involves around the basic usage, access and further social dynamics of VPN, which stands for Virtual Private Network. It's a tool to extends a private network to external network environment to provide safe, private access. In practical reality the usage of this tool is embedded in complex situations, such as to circumvent state fire wall and bypass geographically restricted content. This project adopts a DIY working attitude. The underlying technology is provided by PiVPN, an open source free software that runs on a Raspberry Pi. As the Pi is connected to a home network, it's able to provide VPN access. I initiated this project as a response to my personal practical situation. As I live in the Netherlands, I travel back to China from time to time. The state fire wall blocks access to services such as Google, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. My mail service is dependent on Gmail, I do watch YouTube for occasional "guilty pleasure", not to mention the tutorial I followed on how to set up PiVPN is from a YouTuber. Aside from services that are not blocked by the firewall, access to content sometimes also can be slow, due to more distant network traffic route.
sessionType: "exhibit"
date: 2019-09-20
images:
- src: biyi-1.jpg
alt: Channel channel, a network for VPN access, Biyi Wen
width: 100%
- sessionID: 19015
title: "The Magi system, exploring the aesthetics of network infrastructure"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/15"
presenterID:
- tobias
description: >
The Magi system is a two channel animation which explores the aesthetics of network infrastructure. There has been a recent trend of users posting pictures of server racks and network wiring on forums like reddits r/Cableporn and r/Cablefail. These images have spread out and proliferated on hashtag based platforms like Instagram and Pinterest. This project uses images and themes from these platforms as a starting point to investigate popular conceptions of how we visualise network infrastructure.
sessionType: "exhibit"
date: 2019-09-20
images:
- src: tobias-1.jpg
alt: The Magi system, exploring the aesthetics of network infrastructure, Tobias Williams
width: 36%
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width: 64%
alt: The Magi system, exploring the aesthetics of network infrastructure, Tobias Williams
- sessionID: 19016
title: "On the wire"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/16"
presenterID:
- adam
description: >
On the Wire is a performance of music/sound made entirely by the network - a combination of live and pre-recorded sounds received via a physical 'wiretap' of a cat6 cable in both send and receive directions. On the Wire makes audible the rhythms inherent in the act of sending and receiving using network protocols, and allows the audience to immerse themselves in the spatial and temporal dimensions of the network through sound. For Our Networks, this work will specifically feature the sounds of decentralized protocols (IPFS, Dat...)
sessionType: "performance"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 19017
title: "Regulationism and the need for a digital postmodernism"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/17"
presenterID:
- corey
description: >
The following talk will address the recent calls for regulation of digital content on social media platforms alongside the digital emancipation movements of the 90's, and how this informs, or rather, elucidates issues in digital ethics. And by this I mean the way in which various normative claims exist, and persist online, and how such ethical conventions interact with us user-subjects. Ultimately, my plan is to show that there is a fundamental error in how digital ethics are understood, and that normative claims such as ‘free speech' appear to operate in a very distinct way online. This is the beginning of a greater project regarding the nature of ‘the digital self', and my plan is for this presentation to function as means of clarification, and identification of a problem. A problem which, I think can be attended to by social sciences, cultural theory & psychoanalysis.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "8G6Vr-F8HXk"
ipfs720: "QmWn3YAfxS8kLDgzGUQae1P84DpDKMzLXDr4zVsQUTSoKY"
ipfs1080: "QmRmD44SiKNFTJqsZbzLneFQPuTRv2iZy9n9MFZRLQYcG1"
- sessionID: 19018
title: "[PROTEST_BAR]"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/18"
presenterID:
- brett
description: >
This half-day workshop engages participants in the construction of a tool for interventions into wireless infrastructure space. The workshop is open to all skill levels and interests and assumes no prior knowledge of networking, electronics or programming. Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of wireless networking and will program the device to create wireless access points, embedded web servers and custom packet injectors. The focus of these activities is to explore networks and imagine creative uses of the networking medium for activism and personal expression. The cost of the workshop is approximately 50USD, and participants will leave with the devices they construct.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19019
title: "Feedback as exploratory self-research"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/19"
presenterID:
- sam
description: >
Relationships are fundamental to networked activity—as a kind of interpersonal infrastructure, feedback allows us to communicate our expectations and observations. Even with the proliferation of organizational frameworks to help us consider giving and receiving, our intentions can be clouded by biases, misaligned goals, and fraught relationships. If the only variable we can control is ourselves, how can we consciously act to depersonalize feedback and guide our colleagues to coach / evaluate us on the areas in which we need or hope to grow? What relevant methods or approaches could we borrow from design research? This workshop will open with a primer on existing feedback frameworks and models, then participants will work individually and collaboratively through a semi-structured activity to answer 'what could it look like to frame feedback as exploratory research into ourselves?
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19020
title: "Hotglue on Dat workshop for non-techies (kid-friendly!)"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/20"
presenterID:
- gottfried
description: >
Building decentralized websites using Beaker and Dat is fun--and a great, hands-on way to learn about the otherwise hidden structures and exchanges that power the web. But to do so, one--more so than ever--needs proficiency in the language of the web (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) in order to participate. In a workshop specifically for children and other 'outsiders', a modified version of 'Hotglue' is used to build decentralized sites together and interlink them. Hotglue is a FOSS 'What you see is what you get' editor for the web. Created in 2010, it currently uses files on the server it is installed to hold the users' data. A to-be-created modified branch of "Hotglue" would instead work on top of the Dat ecosystem, forgoing the need to be running a server altogether.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19022
title: "Solar powered website"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/22"
presenterID:
- marie
- lauren
description: >
Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a sustainable society. In this talk we present https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com, a radical redesign of the blog that is self-hosted on a solar-powered server. This talk will review the design and technical considerations behind the redesign. This includes highlighting its functional benefits, such as archivability and accessibility, as well as its design approach to make the infrastructure powering the site more transparent.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: 0.5
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- sessionID: 19023
title: "Whose future are you serving?: Interrogating frontier imaginaries within P2P technologies"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/23"
sessionType: "talk"
presenterID:
- laniyuk
description: >
Supremacy, in all it’s forms, is ultimately a narrative that we tell ourselves. It is these stories which determine who is valuable, who is authority, who can live and who must die.
date: 2019-09-21
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 19024
title: "The future for workers"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/24"
presenterID:
- brettw
description: >
A public roundtable discussion with artist Brett Wallace focusing on the challenge of working conditions in the digital age. By examining ideas or labor, technology and the greater economy in Wallace's recent work as a jumping off point, we will hold a group discussion on building coalitions and reclaiming autonomy and dignity in workplaces today. What are the internal contradictions workers face in the gig economy at large, and in the field of contemporary art? How do we reclaim forms of autonomy and worker power? How can new forms of technology support worker power?
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19025
title: "Resistant networks with retro-tech"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/25"
presenterID:
- libi
description: >
In the Media Archaeology Lab my colleagues and I have the unique opportunity to experiment with 'obsolete' technologies, including networking protocols. Though they are outdated, these technologies provide a unique opportunity to experience a form of technological connection that is rarely available - direct, limited, and affectively more honest than the networks we've become accustomed to. My talk-shop will offer an overview of the projects currently running in the MAL in addition to getting hands-on with some ideas for building personalized, defiantly non-commercial networks with abandoned and retro technologies, from the slightly absurd to the potentially utilitarian.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19026
title: "Cryptoeconomics: Towards mass behavioral engineering or a network commons?"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/26"
presenterID:
- jaya
description: >
CoBox is a project to enable p2p cloud infrastructures with different trust-settings. The project emphasises privacy by design and easy data governance. The aim is to enable data commons, while protecting against the worst societal effects of dataification and data extraction. Many of the worst effects of Web 2.0 can be traced to the business models of the corporations that dominate the Internet: add-based and financialised businesses where services are paid through people's attention and click rate. This creates a number of devastating knock-on effects, including mass surveillance, design and development efforts aimed at creating addictive behaviours as well as information echo-chambers, phycological and emotional feedback loops. The consequences are ripping through the social fabric of societies and scorching the nervous systems of our bodies. Instead of a drive towards incorporating all interactions and behaviours into data centres for commercial exploitation, the emphasis of CoBox is to enable easy, yet conscious data governance where only the minimal necessary data is created and stored. What might be the new forms of organisations that would emerge from such an infrastructure? And conversely, which existing forms of organisations, networks and companies might benefit from such infrastructures? And critically - through which kinds of economic arrangements might a cooperative p2p cloud sustain itself in the long term?
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 0.5
youtube: "6aS6SMTUDWs"
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ipfs1080: "QmYNSchxz3GEZdmcSVFWipp3qdKxUfQETck3ANE1CqYLBm"
- sessionID: 19027
title: "Building a modern Memex"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/27"
presenterID:
- andrew
description: >
Bret Victor posed an important question: over a long time horizon, what strategy for preserving information has been most successful? Redundant copies stored in a distributed way (for example, each of us storing a full copy of the human genome) or a centralized repository (like the Library of Alexandria)? For the last few years, I've been working on a project to pull a copy of my personal history from across all the platforms and tools I use and make it available for archiving, search, and computation. I'd like to go over the historical project that inspired this project (the Memex of 1945) as well as giving a demo of the system I've built.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "R9ifd9sBeog"
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ipfs1080: "QmNzJxxxwbKADxW4uhqMiaRMCDkUjDTPkFr9kii9fpb6xF"
- sessionID: 19028
title: "Radical internet futures: Let's draw them together"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/28"
presenterID:
- elisabetta
description: >
A collaborative drawing-based discussion between activists, hackers, technologists and researchers on how we can imagine a radically different, better, internet. Participants will be encouraged to produce drawings (individually and in groups) that represent how they imagine the internet to be now and how they would like the internet to be in the future. The drawings will support a discussion on how to imagine radically different technological futures. The unusual format of the discussion allows for the inclusion of people with different types of expertise and experiences of technology, thus helping to break down the technical barriers that are often involved in talking about infrastructures.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19030
title: "Networks as sculpture"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/36"
presenterID:
- lai
description: >
A sculpture is material form in real space, this is its most basic quality; a network is a form in both real and "real" space. When we see sculpture, it reveals itself slowly through our visual experience of its form, weight, material, place, volume, mass, amongst other characteristics. Networks, on the other hand, are harder to see, especially when you are in them - but they still have these same properties. Viewing a sculpture is like viewing the culmination of several moments in time. They are collections of choices and physicalizations of priorities. Every detail is a decision and analysing a sculpture reveals its decision tree. In this talk, I will propose that networks can disclose themselves in the same way, if we ask the same questions.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-22
length: 1
youtube: "lXRjczpZaOg"
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- sessionID: 19031
title: "Torrents of sex"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/31"
sessionType: "exhibit"
presenterID:
- nahee
description: >
<Torrents of Sex> is one of the projects of Nahee.app, web-based performance project about sex and network technology. Assuming that someday human can upload and download their somatic sensations onto the web, Nahee.app designed peer-to-peer polyamorous sexual relationship network protocol <Torrents of Sex>, inspired by BitTorrent’s file distribution & peer selection algorithms. In this project, I regard myself as a web application having sexual desire and speculate what would happen if that programmable entity can have sexual relationships as we do. With their programmability which is the biggest difference of <Nahee.app> from real human, <Nahee.app> approaches technology as a tool for redefining ingrained ways of having sexual relationship
images:
- src: nahee-1.png
alt: Torrents of Se, Nahee Kim
- sessionID: 19034
title: "Remaking the web: Competing visions of decentralization"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/34"
presenterID:
- jack
description: >
'Decentralization' has emerged as a rallying cry to build a web where control is delegated away from central authorities and toward individuals. However, among the multitude of efforts to decentralize the web, there is a lack of consensus on how it should occur and what new centres of power will be cultivated in the process. This talk traces decentralization through historical accounts of the development of the Internet, highlighting how architectural decentralization has served multiple dimensions of social and cultural power. It then discusses how two recent projects reimagine web culture and inscribe new values through the design of socio-technical systems. This analysis offers tools for researchers and designers to think beyond mere decentralization and more substantively engage with their social and epistemic commitments in the design of future internets.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "RTc50SU7KAc"
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ipfs1080: "QmcBJpcFs7DA8Uuz9MG9TzCt1FrdAKoadNeY7LcVPa6wDn"
- sessionID: 19035
title: "Trouble in the bubble: Tech workers organizing in the industry"
descriptionLink: "https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/35"
presenterID:
- danny
- renee
- victoria
description: >
How can we as users and workers imagine ways to own our technology? On the path towards full cooperative takeover like turning Twitter into a public utility, we have to get fairly compensated for our labor - which is why volunteers with Tech Workers Coalition developed Get Back Lost Wages, a simple platform for all gig workers in California to file claims for minimum wage and overtime pay. This session introduces strategies for building power in the tech industry. We will talk about our opportunities to organize, get mutual aid and ideas, and will co-design real tools for the job.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
- sessionID: 19036
title: "Meshing around: DIY internet"
presenterID:
- jill
- scott
description: >
In this workshop, participants will build and manipulate a small wireless mesh network, gaining hands-on experience with relevant principles of networking, mesh network topologies, and equipment currently in use by NYC Mesh. The workshop will begin with a short presentation and then divide participants into “mesh node teams” to explore the technology and how it can be adapted to various environments.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 1
- sessionID: 19037
title: "Pale Eyes"
presenterID:
- ben
description: >
Pale Eyes is the pop music of electronic musician and sound artist Ben McCarthy, reaching the top ten on Canada’s college electronic music charts. 2019’s Paranoia Is Appropriate with Ryan Somerville brings together cinematic orchestral arrangements with trappy beats and IDM textures. His 2018 solo album little music spans blown-out dj ensembles, found sound ambient music, and texturally dense MPC-derived rhythms, moving from abstract figures and lush idiosyncratic timbres, to lurching beats and spiraling loops.
sessionType: "performance"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 0.5
- sessionID: 19038
title: "Hands-on networking"
presenterID:
- grant
description: >
What are mesh networks? How do they work? And why are they interesting? This workshop will explore these questions while learning practical computer networking skills such as... ethernet cable crimping, radio/antenna mounting, wireless channel planning, IP addressing and subnetting, routing and name resolution and so much more! Participants should be familiar with computers and the internet and, of course, possess a healthy appetite for learning.
sessionType: "workshop"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 1
- sessionID: 19039
title: "A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable"
presenterID:
- lance
sessionType: "screening"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1
- sessionID: 19040
title: "Just Browsing"
presenterID:
- joanne
description: >
Written and directed by Joanne McNeil. Cinematography, editing, and motion graphics by Nicole Antebi. Music by Vince Clarke.
sessionType: "screening"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1
- sessionID: 19041
title: "After Scarcity"
presenterID:
- bahar
description: >
Video: Bahar Noorizadeh, Music: Mhamad Safa, Frank Bretschneider, Research & Director Assistant: Sergey Gindilis, Voice Over: Sasha Alekseeva, Munari Font: Pedro Moraes, Translation: Sergey Babkin, Lidar Capture: KMC, Kiev. A production of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018, with the support of the Fonds d’Art Contemporain de la Ville (FMAC) and the Fonds d’Art Contemporain du Canton de Genève (FCAC) and In Between Art Film.
sessionType: "screening"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1
- sessionID: 19042
title: "Geocinema Network"
presenterID:
- geocinema
description: >
Sound Design: Nikita Alekseenko. Music: Episode 01: Josh Feola, Georgiy Potopalskiy, Episode 02: Josh Feola, Episode 03: Nikita Alekseenko, Episode 04: Jessika Khazrik, “Only Distance Has a Name,” from “My Communication Is Not Work”, 2018, “I Am Not Your History” from “Terrella Al2ard Alsaghira,” 2017
sessionType: "screening"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1
- sessionID: 19042
title: "Mechanical Turk Workers"
presenterID:
- brettw
sessionType: "screening"
date: 2019-09-21
length: 1
- sessionID: 19500
title: "March for our futures: Youth climate march"
description: "[Note: Event is independently organized] Join the Toronto part of Global Climate Strike (Sep 20 to 27)!"
descriptionLink: "https://nowtoronto.com/events/march-for-our-futures-youth-climate-march/"
location: "Queen's Park 47 Queen's Park Crescent E"
locationLink: "https://osm.org/go/ZX6BymF~B--?m="
sessionType: "para"
date: 2019-09-20
length: 1
- sessionID: 19043
title: "The impotent medium"
presenterID:
- farhad
description: >
Video presentation by Farhad Bahram, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Made in Iran. Made in Iran is the outcome of several interviews with 12 Iranian individuals, living in the United States, whose lives are affected by the travel ban. Throughout this conversation they portrayed how, as the result of recent feuds between the two countries, their identities are often assumed by others to only comprise their nationality. In this project I tried to portray their complexity, depth and presence by interviewing them and asking them to share in a series of words, images and videos that more accurately reflects their intended identity.
sessionType: "talk"
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "y684dwnujn4"
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- sessionID: 19801
title: "Channel channel, a network for VPN access"
presenterID:
- biyi
description: >
Video presentation by Biyi Wen, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Channel channel, a network for VPN access. Channel Channel is a project that involves around the basic usage, access and further social dynamics of VPN, which stands for Virtual Private Network. It's a tool to extends a private network to external network environment to provide safe, private access. In practical reality the usage of this tool is embedded in complex situations, such as to circumvent state fire wall and bypass geographically restricted content. This project adopts a DIY working attitude. The underlying technology is provided by PiVPN, an open source free software that runs on a Raspberry Pi. As the Pi is connected to a home network, it's able to provide VPN access. I initiated this project as a response to my personal practical situation. As I live in the Netherlands, I travel back to China from time to time. The state fire wall blocks access to services such as Google, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. My mail service is dependent on Gmail, I do watch YouTube for occasional "guilty pleasure", not to mention the tutorial I followed on how to set up PiVPN is from a YouTuber. Aside from services that are not blocked by the firewall, access to content sometimes also can be slow, due to more distant network traffic route.
sessionType: "talk"
skipProgramID: true
date: 2019-09-XX
length: X
youtube: "ZC4VEQZndF0"
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- sessionID: 19802
title: "Distributed internet archiving plus low power long distance meshing with LoRaWAN"
description: "Nick Sweeting. Lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "ZYPA_jDAxJY"
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- sessionID: 19803
title: "Distributed secure routing in permissionless flat networks"
description: "Benedict Lau. Lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "5OpvkQIZ_hM"
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ipfs1080: "Qmbz4a5JLjEwAb2ZhdaJCVKKpFWYt1yWKooqpb82amjrAR"
- sessionID: 19804
title: "Distributing knowledge of digital workflows via workshops and support groups"
description: "Zack. Lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "LCGItDLh7T0"
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- sessionID: 19805
title: "Hugo Wasm plus IPFS blogging"
description: "Jim Pick. Lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "bkGe5_9tymo"
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- sessionID: 19806
title: "The netifesto"
description: "Ryan Kelln. Lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "I_u8u83H5fg"
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- sessionID: 19807
title: "Freifunk"
description: "Felix Kaechele. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "dg1PyG6DDEI"
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- sessionID: 19808
title: "I2P intro for app devs"
description: "idk. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "0niPMi-v4kg"
ipfs720: "QmcVUREbLmBGNhNi9zqbc6QnCDWZpGwfqdwSSU8TLwpPSD"
ipfs1080: "QmUFmpwLBLsPhT1XbCrC2PySZ6YHCxFz7XetLVd6ekNfEM"
- sessionID: 19809
title: "Sarantaporo.gr"
description: "Vassilis Chryssos. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3."
sessionType: "lightning-talk"
date: 2019-09-22
length: X
youtube: "58TnEOQVSwQ"