Class Work
We will have a selection of readings and short films assigned for outside of class which will help round out the ideas we learn during lecture and will serve as a basis for class discussions. The rest of our time outside of lecture and workshop sessions will be spent developing our class project.
Schedule
Day 01: Radical Networks Overview
- Introductions / Assignment of class project
- Video: Lo and Behold, Werner Herzog
- Reading: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Internet Protocols
Day 02: How Does the Internet Work?
- Technical overview, describing the full physical / software stack
- Videos:
- Reading: On Weaponised Design: Cade Diehm
Day 03: Who Controls the Internet?
- Access Plane / User Plane / Control Plane (are protocols political?)
- Video: Pirate Radio: Nonlinear Innovation for Autonomous Culture: Larisa Mann
- Reading: The Critical Engineering Manifesto
Day 04: Technological Sovereignty, Social Justice, and Activism on the ‘Net
- Community networks, Rapid Response Networks, Grassroots Networks, Feminist networks
- Guest Speaker: Danja Vasiliev, Critical Engineer
- Video: Spectres of the Spectrum
- Readings:
Day 05: Net.Art and Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Overview of early net art, Hacktivism, Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Reading: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism: Hakim Bey
Day 06: Networked Media Art
- Overview of notable contemporary networked media artists
- Presentation of project ideas
- Workshop: 1x1 Tech Check
- Video: their tools, ur rules: the tactical mis-use of online platforms: Nick Briz
- Reading: A Beginner's Guide to the Decentralized Internet
Day 07: Alternative Networks
- Decentralized peer-to-peer, offline, mesh networks, and other alternative networks
- Workshop: Subnodes / offline networking
- Guest Speaker: Nick Briz
Day 08: Project Feedback and Work Sessions
- Workshop: Subnodes / IPFS networking
Day 09: Project Feedback and Work Sessions
- Workshop: Subnodes / IPFS networking
- Guest Speaker: !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Day 10: Final Project Presentations