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Jacques Urbanska
March 11, 2013 6:49 PM
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Communiquer, partager, s'informer librement : C'était l'utopie des pionniers du net. Quarante ans après ses premiers balbutiements, les gouvernements et les grands acteurs privés contrôlent toujours plus étroitement les échanges, rongent liberté d'expression et droit à la vie privée. Le Réseau est devenu une extension du domaine de la lutte politique ils sont nés avec un ordinateur dans les mains, ont grandi sur la toile, connaissent tous les avantages et les pièges de la vie en ligne. ils ont soutenu Wikileaks et les cyberdissidents des printemps arabes, se sont mobilisés contre les lois sécuritaires, exfiltrent des témoignages de répression, échangent avec les indignés du monde entier. ils créent des réseaux alternatifs. on les retrouve jusque dans les parlements européens. ils réinventent la politique. Amaelle Guiton a interviewé ceux qui, sous le masque Anonymous ou à découvert, sont les artisans d'un Internet libre. Elle livre une enquête passionnante au cœur de la résistance numérique, pour savoir ce que « hacker » veut dire.
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Jacques Urbanska
February 3, 2013 10:45 AM
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The new Neural issue is hot from the press.
Subscribe now!. You can also subscribe to the magazine Digital Edition accessing all issues since #29. Or you can buy the magazine from the closest of the almost 200 stores stocking it. A back issues pack is available.
Centerfold: 'The Algae Opera', by Louise Ashcroft.
interviews
. Evan Roth
. Annie Abrahams
. Helen Varley Jamieson
. Invisible Playground Team
. Peter Traub
. Niels Post
. Rui Guerra
articles
. Bits that matter
. Sound and physical effect of networked transmission
reports
. Sound Art - ZKM, Karlsruhe
. Werkeleitz festival, Halle
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Jacques Urbanska
February 2, 2013 11:40 AM
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If MIT truly wants to atone for joining the federal case against Swartz, it should do something much grander: It should pledge to spend its money, prestige and moral authority to launch a multi-university campaign to free every scholarly article from behind pay-wall archives like JSTOR. In other words, MIT should pledge to finish the project Swartz started. ...
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Jacques Urbanska
January 24, 2013 9:55 AM
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The Aaron Swartz JSTOR liberator is a tiny bit of civil disobedience, presented to you in clicktivism form. By running this bookmarklet (which you should not do if you are not comfortable potentially violating terms of service), you will visit JSTOR, a keeper of academic articles, be presented with a random paper, and will download a single paper from the site. You will have to click a terms of service agreement agreeing to not share the document you are reading, yet you will then download it and uploaded to another server. It will also ask for a message of memorial about Aaron. We will be gathering your messages of memorial and rememberance of Aaron to put up soon.
Aaron Swartz, an internet activist and open content advocate, set up an automated pair of laptops to download large numbers of documents from JSTOR in 2011. Caught doing so, he was ultimately charged with 35 years of prison time and millions of dollars in fees, even after JSTOR withdrew from the case and settled with him. Facing the potential of spending the next decades in jail and suffering from depression, Aaron took his own life in January of 2013. He is remembered with fondness, love, and respect the world over and the lives he touched. In his memory, this small site might serve to help more people learn who he was and what he believed in. Archive Team misses Aaron very much.
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January 19, 2013 2:16 PM
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January 10, 2013 10:16 AM
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Greg Leuch is a user interface designer, interaction designer, visual designer, front-end web developer, and open-source artist. Pop Block wants to help users manage their content bubble, by allowing them to control content visibility while browsing the web. Blocking and hiding content is notably achieved through advertising blocking extensions, but the everyday web content we consume contains many more things we may not wish to see. By launching a customizable keyword blocker through browser extensions, Pop Block gives users the ability to control their engagement with content while browsing. This approach allows users to manage a list of keywords that synchronize wherever they have installed the extension.
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Jacques Urbanska
December 6, 2012 1:35 AM
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The COMMUNIA Thematic Network has been working for over three years at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment - as well as related topics, including, but not limited to, alternative forms of licensing for creative material; open access to scientific publications and research results; management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works). Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 3-years long project expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder involved - public and private, from the local to the European and global level. The core of the network is represented by its members.
The founding members are 36, with five more members added in September 2008, and ten more added at beginning of the third year (September 2009) - for a total of 51 members.
COMMUNIA is also building strategic relationships with other non-European countries (starting with the United States and Brazil, where two COMMUNIA members are located) in which similar policy discussions are currently underway. COMMUNIA is coordinated by the Politecnico of Torino's NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society. It started its activities on 1 September 2007 and will end on 28 February 2011 (after a six-month extension granted by the EU).
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Jacques Urbanska
November 29, 2012 1:13 PM
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The thematic programme ‘Investing in People’ pursues a broad approach to development and poverty reduction, with the general aim of improving human and social development levels in partner countries in accordance with the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This is a restricted Call for Proposals. In the first instance, only Concept Notes must be submitted for evaluation and, thereafter, pre-selected applicants will be invited to submit a Full Application Form. The global objective of this Call for Proposals is to support culture as a vector of democratisation, diversity and socio-economic development. ...
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Jacques Urbanska
November 21, 2012 5:21 PM
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Truth commandos deliver hilariously awkward hijinks exposing injustice and challenging everyone to join the revolution. The Yes Men Are Revolting is a funny, action-packed adventure. With the environment on the brink of collapse, we ask a pressing question: at a time when corporate forces have bought and sold democracy, how can we effect real change? Our answer: get every viewer involved in the struggle.
The Yes Men Are Revolting completes a trilogy of funny feature docs we started a decade ago. In our first film, The Yes Men (2004), we posed as spokespeople for the World Trade Organization, acting out comedic vigilante justice against the elite. In The Yes Men Fix the World (2009), we delivered a bunch of hard-hitting, hilarious stunts that show why we must change our corporations-first system, and what’s in store if we don’t. The Yes Men Are Revolting will be even more jam-packed with screwball comedy, nail-biting suspense, nasty stings, and informative documentary. It'll also have a gripping personal storyline the first two films lacked—as well as a human-staffed platform to convert viewer enthusiasm into direct action, letting everyone join in the fun and contribute to the movement for change. ...
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Jacques Urbanska
November 20, 2012 5:12 PM
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Dedicated to developing drones for investigative reporting, and the ethical, educational and technological framework for the emerging field of drone journalism.
If you are a journalist (broadcast, print, interactive), journalism student/professor/teacher or represent a media organization interested in the development of sUAS as a tool for reporting, Please join us a member of PSDJ. We offer: • Updates on the development of all facets of Drone Journalism
• Technical safety, and Federal requirements which apply to SUAS
reporting
• Ethical standards for SUAS use in reporting
• Collaborative Peer Support –Interacting with PSDJ members who may be researching a similar applications PSJD is dedicated to establishing the ethical, educational and technological framework for the emerging field of drone journalism. Developing and communicating small unmanned aerial systems
(SUAS) use for journalists and the best practices to deploy them for a variety of reporting; investigative, sports, local, disaster, weather, environmental reporting.
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Jacques Urbanska
November 10, 2012 10:38 AM
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Research and recent innovations have led to an amazing increase of types and uses of visual displays and screens; indeed, in our predominantly visual culture, they are everywhere. A typical person carries at least one device with a screen, is presented with them in public places, uses them at work and in many leisure activities. They are so ingrained in our everyday acts and habits that we don’t even notice them anymore. L.S.D invites its users to engage in a new perception of their daily environment. L.S.D feeds on light via two LDR (light depending resistor) mounted on a suction cup, allowing the sensors to be mounted on any screen surface. An analogue synthesizer converts the light input to sound waves. This device can be used in many different configurations and feeds from any light sources. Even if L.S.D can be controlled by any light source, its design is aimed at screen reading/listening.
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Jacques Urbanska
November 7, 2012 9:49 AM
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2010 was the first year that the UK Parliamentary elections included American style television debates between the party leaders. The organizers of the FutureEverything festival in Manchester, England had seen footage of our US Debate remix, ReConstitution, and invited us to do something similar for a live audience over there. We have now fully integrated the LIWC text analysis libraries to track things like emotion and self-reference in our software. The show was streamed live, a first for us, on April 29th.
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Jacques Urbanska
October 28, 2012 1:03 PM
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The Projection Foundation is a network of film festivals and organizations working together to provide ‘offline’ and underrepresented communities with the tools and training necessary to exchange their stories through local cinema screenings and regional open air film festivals. The Projection Foundation combines village-based media production & open air film festivals to help ‘offline’ communities to project and broadcast their narratives across multiple media channels. Our first product is an online community designed to link projectionists around the world with filmmakers, content producers, and storytellers. Through the Projectionists.org community, projectionists can share the skills of their trade and work together to span the digital divide that still exists in many parts of the world. This community will also serve as a forum to showcase participants’ work. We will encourage comments and video responses from observers around the world that will be projected back to the local communities using our projection systems.
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Jacques Urbanska
February 17, 2013 9:40 AM
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This is my first post in DIY Drones. I would like to share with the comunity my last work related to UAVs. I'm currently working on my thesis for graduation as an electronic engineering at the University of Buenos Aires. My thesis is based on a embedded control system and in this post I'm presenting the Flight computer that holds the control algorithms. My thesis is more an academic research than a hardware/software project, but I decided to do my own powerful board to test it. Above is the FLCv2p0 (Flight computer v2.0). The first version was a homemade attempt and now this is the new version ...
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Jacques Urbanska
February 2, 2013 12:20 PM
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Fab' lab', imprimantes 3D... "Le consumérisme a vécu", assène le philosophe pour qui, motivés par nos seuls centres d'intérêt, nous allons changer de mode de travail. Les bureaux de Bernard Stiegler font face au Centre Pompidou, sous les toits de Paris. C’est pour son célèbre voisin que le philosophe a fondé l’Institut de recherche et d’innovation (IRI), afin d’« anticiper les mutations de l’offre et de la consommation culturelle permises par les nouvelles technologies numériques ». Mais dans l’esprit de l’enseignant-auteur-chef d’entreprise, tout est lié : culture, consommation, technique, travail, politique. Pour lui, le modèle consumériste se meurt, comme celui du progrès permanent. Tout s’automatise. ....
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Jacques Urbanska
January 27, 2013 10:45 AM
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Depuis quelques semaines, les propriétaires d'un téléphone mobile équipé du système Android peuvent télécharger gratuitement un logiciel baptisé Serval. Malgré une arrivée discrète, celui-ci pourrait bouleverser le marché de la téléphonie et remettre en cause le contrôle étatique des réseaux. Pour l'installer, il faut d'abord "rooter" son téléphone, c'est-à-dire désactiver les verrouillages imposés par les opérateurs. Dès lors, Serval permet à un groupe de mobiles de se connecter directement, sans carte SIM ni antenne relais. Il fonctionne selon le principe d'un maillage ("mesh") consistant à créer des réseaux temporaires et mouvants, entièrement décentralisés. Lorsque deux appareils sont proches l'un de l'autre (quelques centaines de mètres), ils se parlent en direct. S'ils sont trop éloignés, les autres téléphones Serval se trouvant dans la même zone captent automatiquement la communication et la retransmettent, de proche en proche – sans que leurs propriétaires aient à faire quoi que ce soit. ...
http://www.servalproject.org
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Jacques Urbanska
January 20, 2013 5:46 AM
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Ebranlé par l’affaire Aaron Swartz, le prestigieux Massachusetts Institute of Technology ressortira-t-il indemne de ce tragique épisode ? Retour sur les liens de ce brillant informaticien et activiste, retrouvé pendu à New York, avec l'université la plus avant-gardiste des Etats-Unis. Il y a quelques mois, j’ai eu la chance de passer plusieurs jours au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), à Cambridge – aux portes de Boston –, pour un reportage au sein d’un des nombreux laboratoires de recherche. Un plaisir de journaliste, et une grosse claque ! Car déambuler dans les bâtiments dernier cri du campus, parler avec les étudiants, les chercheurs, les enseignants, c’est d’abord se trouver joyeusement confronté à une réalité à peine imaginable en France : sur les bords de la Charles River, dans ce coin de paradis pour cerveaux survoltés, l’esprit de corps est un bien commun non-négociable.
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Jacques Urbanska
January 17, 2013 9:10 AM
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Dans une tribune publiée par Libération, la commissaire Neelie Kroes a confirmé qu'elle ne voyait aucun problème à ce que les FAI proposent des offres "différenciées" d'accès à internet. Ils pourront vendre un accès à un internet bridé, et proposer des options payantes pour débloquer l'accès à certaines applications. Si cette voie se confirme, la neutralité du net sera morte. Profitant du débat qui a fait rage en France avec le blocage par défaut des publicités par Free, la Commission Européenne a précisé son point de vue sur la question de la neutralité du net. Dans une tribune publiée dans Libération, la vice-présidente Neelie Kroes a confirmé ce que nous avions analysé en 2011, sur le souhait de Bruxelles de mettre à mort la neutralité du net en autorisant les offres différenciées chez les FAI.
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Jacques Urbanska
January 5, 2013 10:43 AM
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The Next Nature Network explores the changing relation between people, nature and technology. We aim to visualize, research and understand the implications of the nature caused by people. We initiate publications in various media (websites, books, DVD, products, games, magazines, software, etc) and organize events. The Next Nature Foundation is based in Amsterdam. Our Next Nature Lab is connected to the Industrial Design department of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
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Jacques Urbanska
December 6, 2012 1:15 AM
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Découvrez le témoignage d’Alma, ex-marera d’un des gangs les plus violents du Guatemala, dans un webdocumentaire, une application pour tablettes, un documentaire TV et 2 livres inédits.
Alma a appartenu pendant 5 ans à l’un des gangs les plus violents
du Guatemala, pays aujourd’hui décimé par une guerre qui ne dit pas son nom.
Une confession sans fard, les yeux dans les yeux. Un témoignage unique, dans lequel les mots de la jeune femme
ouvrent sur les images de ses souvenirs, du quotidien du Guatemala
et de l’intérieur des gangs.
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Jacques Urbanska
November 25, 2012 6:42 PM
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THE MINE KAFON is a Semifinalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it's among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Click on the VOTE button in the top right corner of the video player. Note that voting may not be available on all mobile platforms, and browser cookies must be enabled to vote. A short documentary portrait on a designer (Massoud Hassani) who has created a low cost solution to landmine clearance. Check out his website:
massoudhassani.com
or for other films by us at Ardent Film Trust:
ardentfilm.org
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Jacques Urbanska
November 20, 2012 8:01 PM
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Choisissez votre zone de combat, personnalisez votre enfant et transformez-le en véritable guerrier pour l’envoyer au front. Une seule issue possible… A vous de jouer. Afin de sensibiliser sur la problématique des enfants-soldats dans divers pays du monde, AIR Brussels vient de développer une campagne digitale... surprenante!
Dans ce faux jeu, les joueurs sont invités à personnaliser un enfant pour le transformer en véritable soldat… et l’envoyer combattre. Les gamers, et autres visiteurs, seront sensibilisés à une problématique qui leur est sûrement inconnue, celle des enfants-soldats. Avec cet environnement familier que représente le jeu en ligne, une seule et unique question reste: peut-on réellement jouer avec la vie d’un enfant ?
Le jeu est développé avec le plugin « Unity », logiciel de gestion 3D en ligne.
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Jacques Urbanska
November 13, 2012 8:28 AM
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The Center for Artistic Activism is a place to explore, analyze, and strengthen connections between social activism and artistic practice. Our goal is to make more creative activists and more effective artists. We aim to win.
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Jacques Urbanska
November 10, 2012 9:20 AM
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Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network. Share (and chat!) Freely Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movements, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless communications and file sharing networks where users can anonymously chat and share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content. Private and Secure PirateBox is designed to be private and secure. No logins are required and no user data is logged. Users remain completely anonymous - the system is purposely not connected to the Internet in order to subvert tracking and preserve user privacy. Easy to Use Using the PirateBox is easy. Simply turn it on and transform any space into a free communication and file sharing network. Users within range of the device can join the PirateBox open wireless network from any wifi-enabled device and begin chatting and sharing files immediately.
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November 6, 2012 5:44 PM
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Two Degrees 2011 aimed to reflect world events since the first festival in 2009: failed climate treaty negotiations, financial disasters and government cuts. Protest and activism have hit the headlines, from revolutionary movements in the Middle East to London’s biggest protests for nearly ten years. And away from the mainstream media eye there is a growth of alternative and inspiring solutions to our impending climate crisis. Sitting between art and activism, performance and protest, 2011's festival was a chance to be part of artist led actions; tell your own revolutionary story, help eradicate an invasive species, go on a mass bingo bike ride, ask an expert about the future or exchange your own personal and political views for a free haircut. Join in, take part and make your voice heard.
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