Radical/Networks

October 24-25, 2015
Integrated Digital Media
MAGNET NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY

Saturday 10/24

Lecture Hall East Town Hall Room 806 Room 845 Room 811
9:00 - 10:00 Registration + Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:30 - 11:15 ‘This band is your band, this band is my band...’
Rachel Dwyer
GSM For Good
Benedetta Piantella
Ways of Seeing: Visualizing Networks Workshop
Dawn Walker
11:30 - 12:00 SDR-101 : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the RF Spectrum
Surya Mattu
Over the top networks, a history of building new systems on the wreckage of the old
Edward Vielmetti
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Eccentric WiFi: Networks with others
Tega Brain
The Importance of Soft Infrastructure
Chris Fussner
+ Noah Emrich
How was your day? Ambient Networks Workshop
Carrie Kengle
+ Bruno Kruse
Packet Radio Networks Workshop
Dennis de Bel
+ Roel Roscam Abbing
13:40 - 14:40 I Will Follow You Into the Dark[net]
David Huerta
+ Caroline Sinders + Stephanie Hyland
A History of the Future of Solarpunk Ham Radio Club
Adam Rothstein
+ Rob Ray
14:50 - 15:30 Ghost Networks
Ingrid Burrington
Appropriating Technologies for Protests of Futures
Pedro Oliveria
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 MAC as a Place and Landscape
Garry Ing
Workshop: There Is No Cloud: Dumping Dropbox to Create a Personal Anti-Cloud For Cheap
Joshua Kopstein
16:40 - 17:00 Social Justice Warrior Network
Dan Phiffer
Public transportation GPS Tracking
Epic Jefferson
17:10 - 17:40 NYC Mesh, a community owned Wi-Fi network
Brian Hall
, Julien Deswaef, Dan Grinkevich
Bibliotecha Demo
Lucia Dossin
+ Michaela Lakova
17:40 - 18:00 Lightning Sessions
18:10 - 18:40 Security & Privacy in Mesh Networks
Paige Peterson
18:50 Closing Remarks

Sunday 10/25

Lecture Hall East Town Hall Room 806 Room 845 Room 811
9:00 - 10:00 Registration + Breakfast
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:30 - 10:50 On being the alternative in the absence of alternatives
Keith Whyte (Rhizomatica)
MTOS, Federated, Public Key Secured, Social Communications Infrastructure
Andrew Davis
Workshop: I Think Therefore ICANN: An RPG About TLDs
Surya Mattu
+ Ingrid Burrington
Workshop: The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Networks Through Mesh
Erica Kermani
+ Miki Foster
11:00 - 11:30 The Pervasive Rhizome: Data Tracking Edition and
Playful Mesh: Site-Specific Game to Visualize Network

Ansh Patel
11:30 - 12:00 Seeing the Internet
Shuli Hallak
Ownership Incentives & Network Evolution
Jesse Tweedle
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Alternet
Sarah T. Gold
Lightning Sessions Bibliotecha Workshop
Andre Castro
+ Lucia Dossin
Workshop: Raising a Commotion: How to build a Community Wireless Network
Josh King
Windfarms Workshop: People-Powered Nearby Networks
Nathan Freitas
14:10 - 14:40 Bringing Connectivity to Rural Areas in Bangladesh
Dr. Lutfor Rahman
Democracy Through Grassroot Local Networks
Joe Chasinga
14:50 - 15:30 In The Final Days Of The WWW
Dennis de Bel
+ Roel Roscam Abbing
Decentralized Peer To Peer Social Networks
Oliver Fisher
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Anti-Colonial Hacking
Sophie Toupin
Israeli Pirates
17:10 - 17:30 Invisible Islands
Locative New Media: Connecting the physical with the digital

Sébastien Pierre
Be your own NSA: Regain IO control
Yifu Guo
17:30 - 18:00 Probe Kit
Nick Briz
+ Brannon Dorsey
18:10 - 18:30 Crowd-Sourced Social Media Network Surveillance
Derek Curry
+ Jennifer Gradecki
Signal Strength + The Community Phonebooth
Amelia Marzec
18:30 - 19:00
19:00 Closing Remarks