==== There may be detours, but keep the following in mind I will be presenting various projects across a few topics. If there is one unifying element within them all it is the question of the societies our increasingly neo-liberal digital life creates for us. This is relevant because we continue to trade places of the commons for corporate lobbies. A realm where "good citizenry" is coded by developers rather than planned by politicians and city planners. Last year a professor from France filed an official appeal to the Internet Architecture Board asking them to consider the ethics of the protocol and the social contracts they support or break. The IAB manages the workgroups that create the internet protocols we use. In essence he was asking them how the "ethics in the protocol" is considered during development. This organisation and all of it's daughter groups are mostly funded by corporations and their response was one that showed they felt they have no need to consider this. I argue this is a injustice of massive proportions. Consider just one example: "GeoIP". GeoIP is a broad name that describes part of the internet architecture that, for example, permits Youtube to enforce GEMA rules upon visitors from Germany. This is possible because every computer online has an internet address that can be used to determine nation of origin. Any attempt to re-code the internet protocols that permit for this would run into a wall of resistance due to business models that increasingly utilize it. But this same "feature" actually kills people. It is the same feature that allows for censorship and more concerning allows for the tracking of dissidents living under despot regimes. Any engineer should be utterly ashamed that it took the NSA scandal to consider this, and yet few do consider it as the IAB appeal proves. We are starting to see that the ethics of the protocol is dictated by nothing more than market will. It is a neo-liberal takeover of society via the proxy of technological "innovation". This is very worrisome but can also be exciting for any student of society. As we undergo this trade of civil architectures, of the Industrial Era for the Network Era, we sit in a moment where the understanding of humanity based largely on the canonized thought of philosophers from that past desperately requires a new gaze. The importance of the "secret" to "individuality" as described by philosopher Georg Simmel must clearly be reconsidered. Perhaps it was the luxury provided by the physicality of his world and absence of the networked-self that lead to his giving the secret such weight. Alice Lagaay (Universität Bremen) summarizes the argument with "you are an individual only to the extent that you are not transparent". Looking backward from today perhaps we see that there was a "transparency" surplus at that time. This leads me to argue, perhaps with some ignorance, that rather than debating post-privacy we should be defining post-existentialism, a concept I hope you will help me better understand. ==== Schedule PART1 - performance (around 1 hour) * Central Banking is a Marxist Idea (working title) Lecture performance Dramaturgy and co-writer: Maria Rößler. Music: Nils Michael Weishaupt * Question & Answer, where I remain in character break PART2.1 - decentralization (1-2 hours) * Performance discussion, out of character * Herrmann's Battle (theater, Rimini Protokoll) * Decentralized Morality (project) * Selective Divestment (project) break PART2.2 - privacy and protocol (around 1 hour) * Anonymous-P (theater, Christiane Kühl & Chris Kondek) * A hidden leak in public view that predicted part of NSA scandal many years prior break PART3 - patriarchal and homeogenic environments (less than 1 hour) * About that leak. An often quote in journalism: "More whistle blowers being prosecuted than ever before". It's much more interesting to consider why there *are* more whistle blowers than ever before. * nonwhiteheterosexualmalelicense.org ==== Bio The persona's that tend to influence me: I reverse engineer hardware and software for corporations to find security vulnerabilities. I've published tools on this topic and lectured at various conferences including the CCC. But I spend much of my time working between technology, art, research and writing. I studied Interaction Design for both BA and MA but quit both less than half way through. Much of this field of design worships the ego of the product with little interest in how this field can be utilized as a means to study human intuition. I grew up in the Israeli Territories where I spent 11 years, through the second intifada, but was kicked out because I'm not Jewish.