Master Class in Networked Surveillance: Threat Modeling and Mitigation
Hosted by the Berkeley Center for New Media & the School of Information
Open to artists, inventors, & engineers
This master class with Julian Oliver on networked surveillance, threat-modeling, and mitigation begins with a crash course in reading network topologies as political control structures and locating ourselves within them. It ends with a demonstration and discussion of mitigation tools including “Deep Sweep”.
Register at http://networkedsurveillance.eventbrite.com.
Julian Oliver is a critical engineer and artist based in Berlin. His work and lectures have been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events, and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian has received several awards, most notably the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev).
This workshop is brought to you by the Berkeley Center for New Media, the UC Berkeley School of Information, in collaboration with the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, the UC Davis Mellon Saywer Seminar on Surveillance Democracies, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and the Office of Science and Technology at the French Embassy.
