Though Telekommunisten has been a participant in transmediale in some capacity for several years now, this year, as a partner of the festival, was by far our largest involvement to date. The Octo P7C-1 installation, was not only loud, active and physically huge, occupying the entire building with about a kilometer of tubing, 8 end [...]
Octavia Allende Friedman has left Berlin, jettsetting on, where to? Hong Kong? Milan? Havana? Perhaps only her personal biographer knows for sure. Meanwhile, members of the Telekommunisten network will be present as usual, at Cafe Buchhandlung, to greet one and all and raise a drink to a successful launch of Octo P7C-1 at transmediale. Many [...]
This evening we’re having a informal Meet & Greet for Octo Investors and members of the Telekommunisten Network, if you’re an Octo investor or thinking of becoming one, come by and have a drink and chat with us. psychomedia analyst DJ Podinski of XLTerestrials will provide musical entertainment along with a special performance of three Yidish [...]
Missed stammtisch last tuesday, I’m in Paris with Baruch Gottlieb to set up R15N is Paris for Mau au Pixel. –> http://bit.ly/XlImWa This is the 5th R15N exhibition, after Tel Aviv, Berlin, Ljubljana and Johannesburg. Though Baruch and I are in Paris representing the project, it is a project of Telekommunisten, and was created with [...]
This Thursday, Andrew Boyd{1} will be in town for the Berlin launch of Beautiful Trouble{2}, something of an “An encyclopedia for creative activism” as described by Sandra Cuff, of the Vancouver Media Co-op. As a contributor, I will join Andrew for the launch. Please come and join us. My contributions to the book where on [...]
Last month was a long and busy month that started in Canada and ended in South Africa. Along the way, SecuShare’s {1} Daniel Reusche and I agitated for decentralized social platfors at Berlin’s Campus Party {2}, I presented the first Octo demo {3} at the latest reSource transmedial culture {4} event with Jeff Mann, Jonas [...]
Tomorrow I head to Linz, Austria to participate in LiWoLi 2012. LiWoLi: 24-26 May 2012Location: I/O Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse, Linz, Austria LiWoLi is a community festival, open lab and annual meeting spot for artists, educators and developers using and creating Free Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and Open Design in the artistic and cultural context. This event [...]
Last week I wrote about one of the topics Jacob Appelbaum and I discussed at our talk at Re:publica 2012 {1}; that as a result of the commercialization of the Internet, we have moved from free and open social platform, to the centralized social media monopolies we know today. Today I want to mention another [...]
Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12 I gave a talk with Jacob Applebaum at last week’s Re:publica conference in Berlin. It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is. – We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social media to an emerging era of decentralized social media, [...]
Y o u a r e c o r d i a l l y i n v i t e d t o t h e : ————————————————– Art & Economics Group comeback at West Germany, Berlin hosted by Gitte Bohr Quarterly Forum 2012, Q2 Presented by: Tanja Ostojic / David Rych / Dmytri [...]
