Our proposal was brought about through forced necessity. After acquiring Time Warner Cable in 2016 Spectrum has shown to be…

Routing protocols are all around you. Through a mess of radio waves, electrical signals, and flickering light, routing protocols determine…

Craft practices rely on the exchange and transmission of techniques, technical skills, tacit and explicit knowledge about materials and methods…

Eigengrau (a term used to describe what is seen through closed eyes) is a web-based artwork that facilitates a sense…

This talk begins from the premise that today’s social computing environments–their interfaces, data structures, and overall designs–have been enormously, if…

Listening Space is an artistic research that explores transmission ecologies as a means of perceiving the surrounding environment beyond our…

Experiential artists Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine discuss their work ‘On View’, a large scale interactive installation taking form in…

I plan to introduce Open Learning Commons: the idea, its history, and the current status of the project. I will…

Open Weather is a project by Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann probing the noisy relationships between bodies, atmospheres and weather…

People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn’t use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would,…

A software defined radio (SDR) is a type of low cost open source USB dongle that can transmit and receive…

The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to…

The main topic of my intervention is the idea of hybrid space as a common infrastructure as described in this…

In this talk, I will introduce TrustNet, a flexible and distributed system for deriving, and interacting with, computational trust. The…

The archistic, classical utopia is a completely planned desired state for the future in social and architectural terms. It is…

biton (https://bitonproject.org) is a peer-to-peer network built around swarms — groups of peers that store encrypted files and relay requests…

The Interplanetary FileSystem provides a networked, distributed filesystem to retrieve files and folders among multiple parties without a central server….

Bret Victor posed an important question: over a long time horizon, what strategy for preserving information has been most successful?…

Video presentation by Biyi Wen, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Channel channel, a network for VPN access. Channel Channel is a…

As resistance to state control continues to grow, states are reacting by tightening the restrictions on the flow of information…

CoBox is a project to enable p2p cloud infrastructures with different trust-settings. The project emphasises privacy by design and easy…

If the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? Then why wonder how came…

Nick Sweeting. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Benedict Lau. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Zack. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Felix Kaechele. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

Jim Pick. Lightning talk on Day 3.

idk. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

Technology has so fundamentally changed our society that any strategy for social change must be altered to address its power…

A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online looks at ways to advance Indigenous Knowledge on the Internet through…

Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

A sculpture is material form in real space, this is its most basic quality; a network is a form in…

The following talk will address the recent calls for regulation of digital content on social media platforms alongside the digital…

‘Decentralization’ has emerged as a rallying cry to build a web where control is delegated away from central authorities and…

Vassilis Chryssos. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

This is a technical, artistic, theoretical reflection on how we use technology to run and experiment with decentralised festivals in…

Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a…

This paper proposes information technology (IT) infrastructure is formulating a universal language. It dips into historic efforts to create a…

Video presentation by Farhad Bahram, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Made in Iran. Made in Iran is the outcome of several…

Ryan Kelln. Lightning talk on Day 3.

The ongoing discussion about decentralisation has been dominated by the talk of blockchains lately. While they do work in certain…

Althea is a protocol that allows people to easily buy and sell bandwidth from each other. The session will cover…

The Internet as it exists today is not an ideal tool for liberation or the exploration of something new. The…

The interdisciplinary creative practices of fandom — whether it be fanfiction, fanart, or cosplay — challenge our previously held notions…

Formed in the wake of grassroots archiving efforts undertaken in 2017, Data Together seeks to contribute to a civic layer…

In this session, I will present how IPFS and HLS came together to allow us to build a distributed live…

A talk exploring the question is it possible to build/manage communal mesh infrastructure in a decentralized fashion and pay contributors…

What does a ‘stable’ deployment of a community mesh network look like? During this session, we will look at successful…

In this session, I will present Mesh Orange, a Debian-based router that runs on various single-board computers (SBCs), which together…

The philosophers have only interpreted the internet, the point is to change it. IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more…

‘Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter…

Currently, most websites and apps depend on centralized servers despite the limitations of this structure. Migration towards P2P architectures may…

As the internet evolves and changes, what material of the internet’s past will continue to be available? What is being…

Wireless Toronto is a community wireless network run by volunteers, dedicated to the growth of no-cost wireless Internet access in…