[artinfo] Hacker Space Festival 2009

[Sára Stenczer]

Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Call For Proposals
>>
>> In 2008, we organized HSF[1] on the spot, as an ad-hoc meeting for
>> hackerspaces-related networks, technical and artistic research emerging
>> from them and social questionning arising from them. This sudden
>> experiment proved to be a huge success, as much as on the
>> self-organizing level as on the participants and meetings quality, as
>> well as the emotionally-charged ambient, the kind of which you make
>> fond memories.
>>
>> The 2008 edition generated a strong emulation in France, from its
>> historical role as the first official hack meeting there, and in Europe
>> with the subsequent creation of the Hacker Space Brussels[2], the
>> rapprochement with The Fiber in Amsterdam and the hackerspaces.org[3]
>> network.
>>  Initiatives of hackerspace openings in Grenoble or Lille, or
>> the upcoming FrHack[4] conference show an actual enthusiasm in the
>> French hackers community that was doomed to the "underground" not so
>> long ago. We salute these initiatives and their diversity!
>>
>> Soon enough, we wanted to reiterate the HSF experience : however, it
>> was out of the question to institutionalize this temporary autonomous
>> zone, nor make it an ersatz of the previous edition, nor even to wrap
>> it into an "elite" or "underground" aura. On the opposite,
>> we ardently
>> desire; and especially to explore further, in all directions some
>> lesser known domains (see below) et foster meeting and sharing around
>> experiences at the confluence of art, technology and politics.
>>
>> The world financial crisis, the decay of democracy in Europe, the
>> obscurantism, paranoia and lack of culture presiding over legislation
>> (Internet and Reaction... Err... Creation
>>  Law[5][6]) seem a fertile
>> environment for the sensible development of new (social...) life forms.
>> Quick! Let's rest for a few days in jubilation and ecstasy to take a
>> deep breathe of freedom under the indelicate smells of the medicine
>> factory nearby!
>>
>> For if the public space is shrinking to oblivion, where any side-step
>> becomes suspect, and that, from an early age (deviant behavior
>> detection in nursery school), where moving without a mobile phone
>> becomes suspect (hello you Julien Coupat[7], a French political
>> prisoner in France!), there's a domain that the Leviathan would have a
>> lot of trouble to contain, and for a reason: that of sensitivity. Even
>> the desperate attempts of the State to block the free and premonitory
>> expression of sense (hello you Demeure du Chaos![8]) cannot do anything
>> against a loud laughter or a knowing glance, a sensual kiss or an
>> explosion of colors.
>>
>> Sensitivity, we could say, is
>>  what is left to a human being when she
>> has nothing anymore, and differenciates her from the body corporate or
>> the institution, that are, in essence, devoid of it. Therefore, Art
>> definitely remains the public space to share between humans, and only
>> between us. And if it the last one to share, we propose to explore it
>> and take it over during the upcoming edition of the Hacker Space
>> Festival, from the 26th to 30th of June, 2009 at Vitry sur Seine[9].
>>
>> ========================================================================
>>     Keynote Speakers: Sergey Grim and Larry Fake with Eric Schmoudt
>>                 Groogle Summer of Crode, Survivor style
>>      "VLC, I vote against you because you really fucked up when..."
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> == W A N T E D =========================================================
>>
>> Focus on solutions rather than problems.
>>
>>  *
>>  The Final (Hardware) Frontier: Open FPGA Cores, Reverse Engineering
>>  * Designer Religions and Creative Beliefs Systems
>>  * WiFiDoors & WiFi System-on-Chip controllers firmware hacking,
>>    infection & backdooring
>>  * Telecom Core Network Equipment Reverse Engineering: MSC, STP,
>>    Switches, ...
>>  * Algebraic Attacks and Modern Cryptography Attacks
>>  * Autonomous, Parasitic and Viral Drones
>>  * Enhanced or Infected Reality Swarms
>>  * Auto-Builders / Self-Fabrication
>>  * Embedded OS breakins stories & recipes
>>  * Actualization rather than mere concepts
>>  * FPGA & ASIC hacking / backdooring
>>  * Cloud+Privacy+Open Source: O Brave New World?
>>  * Explosion-Proof clothing
>>  * Radio Appz & Hackz: Mesh @ RF Layer 1-3
>>  * Database & Privacy
>>  * Problematic & Ethical Open Source/Content Licenses
>>  * Institutional Relationships: Lobbying or Licking?
>>  * Non Lethal Protection (anti-taser vests?)
>>
>>  * Survival in the Age of the Ministry of Immigration and National
>>    Identity
>>  * Mental asylum improvised visit
>>  * Open Source Legacy Media(TM) Production Solutions (TV, Radio, Press,
>>    DRM)
>>  * Gas Sensors & Environmental Benchmarking
>>  * Building Hackerspaces Without Money
>>  * Milsatcomm hacking: Military satellites shots, broken birds in the
>>    sky
>>  * Other research topics on security and insecurity
>>  * Academics and Hackers
>>  * Organics and Fermentation
>>  * Clean Food in Tainted Environment
>>  * Low Impact Energy & Recycling
>>  * Media Sandwich: layers of crap makes good food?
>>  * Deconstructing Carla Sarkozy
>>  * Knitting DIY Factory (jazzy, eh?)
>>  * Signs of life among industrial wasteland
>>  * Hallucinogenic & Computing: Can you Code on Acid?
>>  * Mesh Networking (Wireless BattleMesh Royal!)
>>  * Legal Sabotage: When Democracy Needs You
>>
>> And anything that does not
>>  fit.
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> == P R O P O S E =======================================================
>>
>> Send you contributions to HSF2009-CFP at lists.tmplab.org
>>
>> + Type of the proposal:
>>
>>  1. conference (45min. presentation + 10min. for questions)
>>  2. workshop / demo (30min. à 2 heures)
>>  3. installation / performance (music, plastic, sound, video)
>>
>> Lightning talks can be proposed and organized until the last moment,
>> according to available space and schedule, in the form of BarCamps or
>> Blitz Conferences.
>>
>> + Required Information:
>>
>>  * Title of the presentation
>>  * Type (see above)
>>  * Language : French or English
>>  * Name of speaker(s)
>>  * Affiliation (organization / company)
>>  * Short biography
>>  * Abstract (5 to 10 lines)
>>  * Topics / Keywords
>>  * Includes a demo? YES | NO
>>  * Release during the festival? YES | NO
>>  * Internet
>>  connection required? YES | NO
>>
>> + Acceptable Formats
>>
>>  * Open Document
>>  * PDF
>>  * Plain Text
>>  * RTF
>>
>> + Agenda
>>
>>  * beginning of proposals    : now
>>  * end of proposals          : 01 May 2009
>>  * selection notification    : 07 May 2009
>>  * publication of program    : 15 May 2009
>>
>> + Evaluation criteria for proposals:
>>
>>  1. Innovating Topic
>>  2. Open Technology
>>  3. Demonstration / Live Act
>>  4. DIY Reproducibility
>>  5. Fun Potential
>>
>> The Programming Committee resembles that of last year
>> See : http://hackerspace.net/committee
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> == V E N U E ===========================================================
>>
>> /tmp/lab
>> 6 Bis rue Leon Geffroy
>> 94400 Vitry sur Seine
>> France
>>
>> http://hackerspace.net/directions