Pre-Lab: Disruption Network Lab - Terror Feeds
- Start time: 19:30
- Free entrance - donations are welcome
Pre-lab of the Disruption Network Lab's 12th conference: TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine
Outer Spaces Conference Series 2017
19:30-22:00 (& BAR AFTERWARDS)
Introduction to the conference “Terror Feeds” by Mauro Mondello (co-curator of the conference and investigative journalist).
Presentation: Topography of Memory: Counter Destruction in the State of Terror & The "MemoTopo" Project with: Nassim Mehran (Architect, Researcher and Lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin), Asala Bader (Master of Conflict Management, Lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin), Ilkim Er (Architect and Researcher at TU Berlin), Rasha Hilwi (Freelance Journalist).
The presentation will discuss grassroots action of citizens to preserve the local values and properties in the time of war in Syria. The event launches the project *MemoTopo* (memotopo.com), its roots and concepts. MemoTopo is a location based collective digital platform that offers the space for people from different ethnicities and identities of the same locality to discuss methods and means of representing themselves, and their heritage, especially in areas and communities threatened by conflict.
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine highlights the change ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Daesh. by its Arabic language acronym) represents in how terrorism is conducted and analyses how electronic jihad and strategic messaging affect the worldwide public opinion, both in the western countries and in the Arab world, representing a new icon of "global jihad".
How can ISIS and its media strategy be analysed? What is the meaning of cyber jihad, its characteristics, its role in shaping the image of ISIS, and identifying ways of confronting with this challenge? Which are the reasons why young people are attracted by this phenomenon, and enroll it as foreign fighters? ISIS makes a profound use of cyber jihad as an instrument for recruitment, radicalisation, and dissemination of propaganda. It has captivated a global network of supporters that articulates, intensifies and disseminates its violent extremist messages worldwide.
On the other hand, in the context of the reflection of openness of communication and freedom of speech, activists and human right defenders risk their life while reporting stories to reveal misconducts by ISIS and document the horrors caused by the terror regime. The conference and workshop analyse how activists are working to circumvent censorship, Internet shutdown and repression of speech in the Middle East - as well as how they find political countermeasures via activist/artist practices, reporting on initiatives to combat extremism and terrorism.
The goal is to understand and to discuss how ISIS unleashed cyber jihad, as well as the strategies activists and human right advocates use to oppose this form of terror, Internet censorship and surveillance.
This 12th conference of the Disruption Network Lab takes place on 24-25 November 2017 in Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin. Read more: http://www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds
Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli with investigative journalist Mauro Mondello. In cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, SPEKTRUM and Supermarkt Berlin. Funded by the Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the Bertha Foundation and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Supported by: the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). In collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Media Partners: ExBerliner, Furtherfield.