#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 4)

The possibility of an army

Talkperformance by Constantin Dullaart

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Using follower bombing as art performances, the artist Constant Dullaart continues the research into attention and identity as a commodity on social networks, and has recently created a large sum of custom created artificial Facebook identities.
Many websites offer an option to login in with Facebook credentials due to the strict controle of the service on the reliability and verification of the social medium. In a time where the open borders in Europe are under pressure, and Syrian identities are sold to people that long for a better future, virtual identity systems, and their reliability become a topical analogy.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 3)

Trust us and our business will expand!

Talkperformance by Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman

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The lecture outlines strategies by the „Artist against 419“ online community that uses open source intelligence to gather data and file reports about fraudulent websites. The lecture presents the artistic installation „Megacorp.“ (created by KairUs) that tries to visualize the global phenomenon of fake business websites.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 2)

Ten years after ‚We Lost The War‘

Talk by Frank Rieger & Rop Gonggrijp

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The talk „We Lost The War“ was presented at Congress ten years ago, causing quite a stir. It was a prediction of a dark future that did not sit well with many people, but unfortunately many predictions have come true meanwhile. This talk will try to address what comes next, as well as what the hacker community can do to make things better.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 1)

What does Big Brother see, while he is watching?

Talk by Simon Menner

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In the past years there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of state sponsored surveillance. But hardly any material can be accessed to support the general debate due to vaguely declared security concerns. So we are debating Big Brother with little knowledge about what he actually sees, while he is watching. Over the course of three years, I was able to research the archives left by East Germany’s Stasi to look for visual memories of this notorious surveillance system and more recently I was invited to spend some weeks looking at the archive by the Czechoslovak StB. Illustrating with images I have found during my research, I would like to address the question why this material is still relevant – even 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

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My Manifesto: Why I don’t fear the NSA

Dear NSA,

my name is Thomas Zimmermann. If you read my Stasi record you’ll get to know my birth name.

I was born in 1964 in Eastern-Germany, formerly known as GDR, German Democratic Republic.

As the old saying goes: The GDR was reigned by a supreme party and leadership supported by a secret service, Stasi.

I had some quarrels with them, the Stasi. You can easily discover that here. Your translators will accurately figure out the key message: Don’t bother with me. I am here, the Stasi isn’t.

Beware of me. I’am dangerous.

Read my lips again: You’ll fail, epically fail.

Was ist ein Überwachungsstaat?

Der Medienkünstler manniac mind aus Berlin erklärt in 10:48 min, was ein Überwachungsstaat ist. Er belegt extrem anschaulich, warum es ziemlich dämlich ist, staatliche Überwachungssysteme zu ignorieren.

PRISM, Tempora, NSA, BND, Verfassungsschutz, Stasi 2.0 gehen mich nichts an – ich habe ja nichts zu verbergen, denn ich lasse mir ja nichts zuschulden kommen? Das Video öffnet die Augen, wie weit entfernt von der Wirklichkeit eine solche Haltung ist.

Filmbuch zu virtuellen Welten und Wesen

Frisch zur Buchmesse veröffentlicht ein Exkurs in virtuelle Welten, die einem manchmal ganz schön nah kommen können: Blade Runner, Matrix und Avatare: Psychoanalytische Betrachtungen virtueller Wesen und Welten im Film, Herausgeber: Parfen Laszig

Cover Filmbuch

Darin ein eigener Beitrag, den ich zusammen mit der Heidelberger Analytikerin Lily Gramatikov geschrieben habe: „Die Matrix“ und die Frage: Kann es doch ein richtiges Leben im Falschen geben? In: Laszig P. (2013, Hg.) Psychoanalytische Betrachtungen virtueller Wesen und Welten im Film. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg New York, 285-302.

Ein spannendes Buch-Projekt, das 30 Filme zusammenbringt und sie psychoanalytisch sieht, liest, interpretiert.

Unser Matrix-Beitrag analysiert erstmals die komplette Trilogie. Wir zeichnen Neos Weg bis zum finalen Kampf mit den Maschinen und der (erneuten) Rettung von Zion nach. Und wir stellen uns der Frage, die unserem Text den Titel gab: „Kann es ein richtiges Leben im Falschen geben?“