notes 10-12-15: IP with Martino Morandi

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Martino Morandi visited us today.

Together we have installed a local network. With the help of an old switch, ethernet cables and some instructions on the command line.

The idea was to show that a network can be built between computers, you do not need a big company or an internet-provider for that.

We then discovered that any computer can be a server.
As Martino said: “Any computer that runs a service for other computers to access, is in fact a server.”

We walked through the notes that Martino keeps on this etherpad:
http://stuff2233.club:9001/p/internet

Firstly to connect to each others machine and be able in the browser to navigate and download stuff from someone elses machine.

And then to set a folder that you share within the network, where access to the rest of the machine stays limited.

As a last exercise, we looked at the logic of Domain Name Servers; DNS.
How can we detour the DNS server of our internet provider and reach websites that seem to be blocked, but in reality the domain name is rerouted to another ip address.
How can we connect names to ip addresses on our own computers?

thank you Martino !

Notes from 12/11/2015

Little Brothers are watching you

Little Brother (Doctorow)
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

We jump back in time from data control and network surveillance (previous classes) back to camera surveillance

The All-seeing eye, devine perspective

Panopticum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Benthem (18th century sociollogist)
centrally controlled prison space, can be overseen from one point

Ducpetiaux is the first general inspector of the new state of Belgium in 1830. Introducing the panoptic prison model in Belgium (Forest / Saint Gilles) And also remodels areas in the city where transparancy and patronage can be executed.
(garden cities, cité jardins: La Roue, Scheut (Anderlecht) )

“En matière pénitentiaire, Ducpétiaux pensait que la prison devait régénérer les détenus, régénération passant par l’expiation, l’amendement, l’organisation du travail, l’éducation, l’enseignement religieux élémentaire et l’enseignement industriel et enfin l’isolement continuel des prisonniers2. En complément de l’action des prisons, il voyait dans le patronage des prisonniers libérés un moyen de réinsertion sociale.”

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Ducp%C3%A9tiaux

From this point of view controlling citizens is a logic step.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

Countersurveillance
—————
** David Brin:
The chief thing accomplished by Privacy Laws is to make the (spy) bugs smaller: “A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs — microphones and lenses and so forth — are that much harder to spot.”

control the controller
surveill the surveiller
→ sousveillance /

Option 1: a perfect Orwellian hegemony, empowered by universal elite omniscience…

Option 2: a wide open citizen-driven society, empowered by sousveillance and universal omniscience.

Artists using surveillance camera’s

Surveillance Camera Players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtntSJc0a4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg950YgmN6k

Ambient TV,

Manifesto for CCTV filmmakers
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=faceless

Faceless by Manu Luksch
(trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzJCeGYgbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2ZLGQli00

Essay over surveillance camera cinema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132N4kMBUPk

Bitnik
Trail of images
https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/c/
Surveillance chess:
https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/s/

Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley
Street with a view
http://benkinsley.com/street-with-a-view/

Stare / Ballades sous surveillance video
Peter Westenberg, Denis Devos, Julien Pierret, Franck Dumortier

lieu ouvert
lieu fermé accessible au public
lieu fermé

http://www.videomagazijn.org/info/archives/462#more-462

Sousveillance project
https://bruxelles.sous-surveillance.net/
https://www.sous-surveillance.net/

Speak out with …

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People take pictures with the installation "Anything to Say?", a bronze sculpture representing whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning on the Place des Nations in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2015. According to a press release the work, which weighs more than a ton, is a testimony in favour of freedom of expression and information, without any political controversy. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

People take pictures with the installation “Anything to Say?”, a bronze sculpture representing whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning on the Place des Nations in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2015. According to a press release the work, which weighs more than a ton, is a testimony in favour of freedom of expression and information, without any political controversy. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Speak-Out-With-Snowden-Assange-and-Manning-Outside-UN-20150914-0009.html

Nettime

http://nettime.org/

Discussion on Nettime, see the Nettime-l archives, sept. 2015, thread ‘Speak out with”

Wikileaks links 08 oct

Right to privacy ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

“Right to be left alone”

“Under liberal democratic systems, privacy creates a space separate from political life, and allows personal autonomy, while ensuring democratic freedoms of association and expression.”

Article 7 droits fundamentals Union Europeen :
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_fr.pdf

Déclarations universelle des droits de l’homme:
http://www.un.org/fr/documents/udhr/#a12

Who Should Own the Internet?
Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society

“Destruction of privacy widens the existence power imbalance between the ruling factions and everyone else.“

Edward Snowden on relation state and companies in data surveillance:
/?p=1112

To Do 17 sept 2015

1: Choose a network from this list, or find another network, and present it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Try to be critical in your presentation:
What is the social connectivity ?
Can you unsubscribe ?
How is your participation monetised ?
What does the service do with your data ?
What is your data ? or or and and …

2: Register yourself to the mailinglist: https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/networkedsocial et envoyez 1 message à la list. Merci !

Check also these references:
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Networked Social 2015-2016

A propos The Networked Social [FR]
Dans le cours, nous utiliserons le concept de “networked social” pour engager une pensée critique sur le numérique et comment il sert de médiateur à nos vies. Ceci impliquera d’explorer “le social”: comment il est actuellement défini et mis en réseau. Les participants exploreront ces concepts à travers les différentes dynamiques qui rendent possibles un “networked social” : l’interaction des réseaux avec les protocoles et les algorithmes; la relation des réseaux avec la surveillance, la vie privée et la sécurité; les économies et les marchés qui co-construisent les réseaux; les interventions des politiciens…
Nous réaliserons tout cela à travers une combinaison de conférences, de workshops pratiques et d’excursions.

Méthode d’enseignement
* Le cours consistera en 30 sessions à l’Erg entre septembre 2015 et mai 2016.
* Il y aura des conférences, excursions, ateliers, projections de films et présentations de projets
* Porter attention au calendrier pour les lieux d’enseignement.
* Les enseignantes principales sont Peter Westenberg et Wendy Van Wynsberghe
* De multiple invités interviendront : Anne Laure Buisson, An Mertens, Michel Cleempoel, Denis Devos, Nicolas Malevé, Seda Gürses, …

Mode d’évaluation
En plus de la présence et de la participation aux sessions, chaque participant devra aussi tenir un “journal” où il archivera ses expériences pour découvrir comment elles évoluent lorsque confrontées à des critères techniques, à des mises en question du design de la représentation en général, à des contraintes légales et au “networked social”.

Pré-requis
Vouloir dévoiler des mécanismes, algorithmes, machineries qui sont présents dans notre vie numérique quotidienne, avec un regard critique.
Vous pouvez apporter votre propre ordinateur mais ce n’est pas obligatoire.
You will need a minimum knowledge of English (both reading and speaking) as some of the reading material will be in English and some international guests won’t be able to discuss in French.

About The Networked Social [EN]
In our course, we will use the concept of the ‘networked social’ as an entry point to critical thinking on the digital and how it mediates our everyday life.
This will entail exploring ‘the social’, how it is currently defined, and how it is ‘networked’. The participants will explore these concepts through the different dynamics that make a networked social possible: the interplay of networks with protocols and algorithms; the relationship of the networks with surveillance, privacy and security; the economies and markets that co-construct the networks; as well as the interventions by politicians. We will do this by offering a melange of lectures, hands-on workshops, and excursions. Each participant will also be expected to keep a ‘diary’. The diary will be an artifact for participants to ‘archive’ their experiences. moreover, it will be an object to discover how these experiences evolve when confronted with `technical requirements’, design challenges, legal constraints and the networked social.

How it works
The course consists of 30 sessions at ERG between September 2014 and May 2015. There will be lectures, discussions, excursions, workshops and a screening of videos, films and projects.
If you take part in the project, you are required to keep a diary for the duration of the project.
Sessions will sometimes take place outside ERG, so please check the calendar carefully.
Some sessions will be taught in French or have French translation available but the main language of this course is English.

Project tutors: Peter Westenberg, Wendy Van Wynsberghe

Guests: Anne Laure Buisson, Michel Cleempoel, An Mertens, Nicolas Malevé, Seda Gürses, Michael Murtaugh, …

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