25 January 2016 | 19:00

CryptoParty + Exhibition Intangible Threat #98

Start time: 19:00 - Free entrance

CryptoParty + Exhibition 'Intangible Threat' 

  • 19:00-19:40 Opening and introduction
  • 19:40-20:00 Performance “COMPUTERS ARE IN CONTROL” by Francois Crepu & Isabelle Borriello
  • 20:00-23:00 Exhibition // CryptoParty
  • 21:00-21:20 Performance "ALDI LOVE SONG" by Julio Lugon


Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival

Exhibition 'Intangible Threat'

A showcase by class Sound, Art and Technology-poiesis, UdK Berlin - an artistic praxis course at UNI.K - Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research, Faculty of Music, Berlin University of the Arts. Led by Daisuke Ishida and co-hosted by sound artist Jasmine Guffond during the winter semester 2015/2016, participants were encouraged to create a work investigating contemporary personal, social and political issues with a special focus on the intangibility of surveillance in the digital domain, through the use of the similarly ephemeral medium of sound. 

Technological developments from the 20th to the 21st century have seen a shift from physical, architectural and optical modes of surveillance to digital modes of surveillance - increasingly based upon immaterial data flow-tracking and the automated collection of information. Since the Snowden revelations (2013), if not before, it is now clearly evident that everyday communication and privacy are compromised. The old world of surveillance, defined by Foucault as ‘disciplinary society’ depended on the layout of city walls, gates and the human sense of sight. This has been supplemented by what Deleuze defined in ‘Postscript on Socities of Control’ (1990) as digital surveillance - complex networks of data tracking, decentralized, ubiquitous, and modulating at the speed of an electronic signal. This shift from distinct enclosures and a ‘sensorial seeing’ to complex networks of data tracking - an ‘intellectual seeing’ - is often intangible, imperceptible and therefore difficult to grasp.

The following works will be exhibited in conjunction with Cryptoparty: 

  • ALDI LOVE SONG - Julio Lugon
  • COMPUTERS ARE IN CONTROL - Francois Crepu & Isabelle Borriello
  • JOEY♥JOHN - Martin Hachman
  • PINDRONE - Amelie Neumann & Nico Jungel
  • THE SOUND OF UNCERTAINITY - Romain Curnier & Quentin Moranne
  • VERSTÄRKER - Katarina Pling

 

 

CryptoParty

CryptoParty is a global, decentralized initiative to introduce the most basic cryptography programs and fundamental concepts of their operation to the general public. 

What you do on the internet can be tracked. The state, advertisers or whoever wants information about you is not hesitating to collect. The good news is that you can learn how to protect your privacy on the Internet. Strong encryption is not only for spies, presidents and banks. Encryption is for everyone, and everyone has the right to privacy.

At a CryptoParty you can learn or teach how to encrypt emails, chats and data and how to stay anonymous online. You don't need specific knowledge to attend a CryptoParty. The only thing you need is a laptop or a smartphone. Everyone can learn it! Everyone has the right to privacy!