Our Networks 2020 archive
Full archives of 2020 videos are available:
- IPFS: ipfs://QmSgVLXPu4ZASkbcebkhXsgx7NjjJx1Xa1ymqkNWaTU4Jt
- Mirror: Toronto Mesh Alexandria Mirror
- Internet Archive: Our Networks 2020 Talks (torrent available)
- YouTube playlist: Our Networks 2020 — Growing Our Networks in Uncertain Times↔Places
Thank you to our A/V volunteers: Henry Wilkinson, and Elon Li.
Our Networks 2020 videos
Building Equity through Public Owned Cable System
Troy Walcott
Our proposal was brought about through forced necessity. After acquiring Time Warner Cable in 2016 Spectrum has shown to be…
Building Your Own Routing Protocol
Grant Gallo
Routing protocols are all around you. Through a mess of radio waves, electrical signals, and flickering light, routing protocols determine…
Crafting Commons: A round table on cybercraft networks
Afroditi Psarra / Gabrielle Benabdallah / Heidi Biggs / Shih Wei Chieh / Audrey Briot / Amor Muñoz / Constanza Piña / Melissa Aguilar
Craft practices rely on the exchange and transmission of techniques, technical skills, tacit and explicit knowledge about materials and methods…
Eigengrau
Craig Fahner
Eigengrau (a term used to describe what is seen through closed eyes) is a web-based artwork that facilitates a sense…
Epistemic relation as social relation
Neal Thomas
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
Audrey Briot / Afroditi Psarra
Listening Space is an artistic research that explores transmission ecologies as a means of perceiving the surrounding environment beyond our…
On View: Art and technology towards new digital architectures
Dejha Ti / Ania Catherine
Experiential artists Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine discuss their work ‘On View’, a large scale interactive installation taking form in…
Open Learning Commons: A peer-to-peer educational ecosystem
Robert Best
I plan to introduce Open Learning Commons: the idea, its history, and the current status of the project. I will…
Open Weather: building networks for nowcasting the weather
Sophie Dyer / Sasha Engelmann
Open Weather is a project by Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann probing the noisy relationships between bodies, atmospheres and weather…
Shuhaku: What did they say?
Brady Dale / David Floyd
People miss Google Reader, but they also wouldn’t use it if Mountain View brought it back. They think they would,…
Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Applications
Brian Sutherland
A software defined radio (SDR) is a type of low cost open source USB dongle that can transmit and receive…
This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the Decentralised Network
Cade Diehm
The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to…
Toward a federation of hybrid spaces
Panayotis Antoniadis
The main topic of my intervention is the idea of hybrid space as a common infrastructure as described in this…
TrustNet: Trust-based and subjective moderation systems
Alexander Cobleigh
In this talk, I will introduce TrustNet, a flexible and distributed system for deriving, and interacting with, computational trust. The…
Utopia as Uncertainty - The issue of decentralisation versus classical utopias
Ulrich Gehmann / Emőke Bada
The archistic, classical utopia is a completely planned desired state for the future in social and architectural terms. It is…
biton — the Internet potluck
Marios Isaakidis
biton (https://bitonproject.org) is a peer-to-peer network built around swarms — groups of peers that store encrypted files and relay requests…
Our Networks 2019 archive
Full archives of 2019 videos are available:
- IPFS: ipfs://QmQQfD1ztg1aG82VmUmutusbxn7tL4c2o1qHv1ivyWbNj6
- Mirror: Toronto Mesh Alexandria Mirror
- Internet Archive: Our Networks 2019 Talks (torrent available)
- YouTube playlist: Our Networks 2019 RE: Infrastructures
Live stream
Thank you to our A/V volunteers: Yurko, Henry Wilkinson, Elon Li, and Benedict Lau.
Our Networks 2019 videos
A technical introduction to IPFS
Hector Sanjuan
The Interplanetary FileSystem provides a networked, distributed filesystem to retrieve files and folders among multiple parties without a central server….
Building a modern Memex
Andrew Louis
Bret Victor posed an important question: over a long time horizon, what strategy for preserving information has been most successful?…
Channel channel, a network for VPN access
Biyi Wen
Video presentation by Biyi Wen, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Channel channel, a network for VPN access. Channel Channel is a…
Collective resistance to state controls on information
Cecylia Bocovich
As resistance to state control continues to grow, states are reacting by tightening the restrictions on the flow of information…
Cryptoeconomics: Towards mass behavioral engineering or a network commons?
Jaya Klara Brekke / Dan Hassan
CoBox is a project to enable p2p cloud infrastructures with different trust-settings. The project emphasises privacy by design and easy…
DHT, BFT, OMG: Know your building blocks for decentralized applications (2019 edition)
Kirill Pimenov
If the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? Then why wonder how came…
Distributed internet archiving plus low power long distance meshing with LoRaWAN
Nick Sweeting. Lightning talk on Day 3.
Distributed secure routing in permissionless flat networks
Benedict Lau. Lightning talk on Day 3.
Distributing knowledge of digital workflows via workshops and support groups
Zack. Lightning talk on Day 3.
Freifunk
Felix Kaechele. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.
Hugo Wasm plus IPFS blogging
Jim Pick. Lightning talk on Day 3.
I2P intro for app devs
idk. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.
Keynote panel: May First, technology and revolution
Alfredo Lopez
Technology has so fundamentally changed our society that any strategy for social change must be altered to address its power…
Keynote: Dr. Jennifer Wemigwans, A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online looks at ways to advance Indigenous Knowledge on the Internet through…
Networks as sculpture
Lai Yi Ohlsen
A sculpture is material form in real space, this is its most basic quality; a network is a form in…
Regulationism and the need for a digital postmodernism
Corey Abell
The following talk will address the recent calls for regulation of digital content on social media platforms alongside the digital…
Remaking the web: Competing visions of decentralization
Jack Jamieson
‘Decentralization’ has emerged as a rallying cry to build a web where control is delegated away from central authorities and…
Sarantaporo.gr
Vassilis Chryssos. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.
Social, artistic, and theoretical experiments with decentralized festivals
Andreas Dzialocha
This is a technical, artistic, theoretical reflection on how we use technology to run and experiment with decentralised festivals in…
Solar powered website
Marie Otsuka / Lauren Traugott-Campbell
Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a…
Spectacular grammar: Infrastructure as a Universal language
Renée Reizman
This paper proposes information technology (IT) infrastructure is formulating a universal language. It dips into historic efforts to create a…
The impotent medium
Farhad Bahram
Video presentation by Farhad Bahram, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Made in Iran. Made in Iran is the outcome of several…
The netifesto
Ryan Kelln. Lightning talk on Day 3.
Our Networks 2018 Archive
Full archives of 2018 videos are available:
- IPFS: ipfs://QmQQfD1ztg1aG82VmUmutusbxn7tL4c2o1qHv1ivyWbNj6
- Mirror: Toronto Mesh Alexandria Mirror
- Internet Archive: Our Networks 2018 Talks (torrent available)
- YouTube playlist: Our Networks 2018 Beyond DIY: Do It With Others
A/V volunteers: Yurko, Henry Wilkinson, Elon Li, and Benedict Lau.
Our Networks 2018 Videos
Aether: Distributing social networks without distributed consensus
Burak Nehbit
The ongoing discussion about decentralisation has been dominated by the talk of blockchains lately. While they do work in certain…
Althea a more distributed ISP
Justin Kilpatrick
Althea is a protocol that allows people to easily buy and sell bandwidth from each other. The session will cover…
Building something together with local networks
Cecylia Bocovich / Lauren Lapidge
The Internet as it exists today is not an ideal tool for liberation or the exploration of something new. The…
Closing remarks
Fandom as an alternative network
Rea McNamara / Owen G. Parry / Maya Ben David
The interdisciplinary creative practices of fandom — whether it be fanfiction, fanart, or cosplay — challenge our previously held notions…
Holding Data Together: Decentralized patterns for stewardship
Brendan O'Brien
Formed in the wake of grassroots archiving efforts undertaken in 2017, Data Together seeks to contribute to a civic layer…
Live streaming over IPFS
Yurko
In this session, I will present how IPFS and HLS came together to allow us to build a distributed live…
Money and mesh networks
Jessica Marshall / Ashoka Finley
A talk exploring the question is it possible to build/manage communal mesh infrastructure in a decentralized fashion and pay contributors…
Opening remarks
Our _stable_ networks
Grant Gallo / Jenny Ryan
What does a ‘stable’ deployment of a community mesh network look like? During this session, we will look at successful…
Peer-to-peer applications on a mesh network
Benedict Lau
In this session, I will present Mesh Orange, a Debian-based router that runs on various single-board computers (SBCs), which together…
Protocol tactics
Lars Gierth
The philosophers have only interpreted the internet, the point is to change it. IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more…
The artists network, the data-body, and the social-body
Jennifer Seaman Cook
‘Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter…
The hybrid step toward migrating to P2P: Adding P2P backend to current centralized apps
vmon
Currently, most websites and apps depend on centralized servers despite the limitations of this structure. Migration towards P2P architectures may…
Web archiving as DIY and DIWO
Emily Maemura
As the internet evolves and changes, what material of the internet’s past will continue to be available? What is being…
Wireless Toronto
Gabe Sawhney
Wireless Toronto is a community wireless network run by volunteers, dedicated to the growth of no-cost wireless Internet access in…