Disruption Network Lab

AI 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...

AI 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 a...

AI 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. B...

CITIZENS 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, Ai...

CITIZENS 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 Tool...

CITIZENS 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...

CITIZENS 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 investiga...

This 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 (...

PRISONERS-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&...

PRISONERS-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 rev...

TRUTH-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...

TRUTH-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 deri...

IGNORANCE: 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...

IGNORANCE: 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 develo...

IGNORANCE: 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 c...

DEEP 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 (...

DEEP 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...

DEEP 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 A...

DEEP 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...

Mustafa 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 a...

John 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...

PiggyBankGirls: 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 su...

A 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 firs...

Panel: 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 pornograp...

Strategies 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 m...