Re: [spectre] // State Machines Commission: 'Vending Private Network' //

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Dear JulianFriends of mine need help with the name of a classic 80s comedy series. Maybe you can help, or perhaps ask one of the Helen.s for a few Tipps?PMS is imminent. XXX from Bergheim  Original Message Subject: [spectre] // State Machines Commission: 'Vending Private Network' //From: Julian Oliver To: spectre@mikrolisten.deCC: Dear Spectre,The Critical Engineering Working Group are pleased to present a new work://->VENDING PRIVATE NETWORK (2018)Virtual Private Networking as Publicly Funded InfrastructureVirtual Private Networks (VPNs) have come into increasing demand in recentyears, providing route encryption through hostile networks. In China, Vietnam,Turkey and Pakistan they also serve to mitigate government censorship, such thatforeign sites otherwise blocked by state firewalls are made available to VPNusers (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, activist sites and digital libraries beingthe most common).Vending Private Network takes the form of a condom vending machine, such asthose typically seen in public toilets, nightclubs and bars. Equipped withmechanical buttons, a coin-slot and USB ports, it offers 4 VPN routes, eachadorned with an animated graphic depicting a fantasy destination.Audiences are invited to insert a USB stick into the slot, a coin (1 pound oreuro) into the machine, and to select a VPN destination by pressing a mechanicalbutton. In doing so, a unique VPN configuration file is then written to the USBstick. Special instructions (in the form of a README.txt) are also copied,explaining how to use the VPN in a special ‘sheathed’ mode that evades detectionmethods (namely Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI) used by corporations andstate-controlled infrastructure administrators. This is the only means known towork against state controlled firewalls.https://criticalengineering.org/projects/vending-private-network/Vending Private Network was developed by J. Oliver and D. Vasiliev, representingthe Critical Engineering Working Group, 2018.//<- Vending Private Network is currently on show at Furtherfield, London, as part of'Transnationalisms', curated by James Bridle, and will tour onward to 3 otherlocations internationally.https://www.furtherfield.org/events/transnationalisms/Vending Private Network was the recipient of the generous State MachinesCommission, 2018:https://www.statemachines.eu/projects/vending-private-network-by-the-critical-engineering-working-group/All the best, -- Julian Oliverhttps://julianoliver.comhttps://criticalengineering.orgPGP https://julianoliver.com/key.ascBeware the auto-complete life__SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep EuropeInfo, archive and help:http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre__
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[spectre] Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts - August 2018

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*Ràdio Web MACBA most listened podcasts - August 2018*

1- * OBJECTHOOD #6,

feat.
interviews with McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen, and music
by  Stephan Mathieu.*


Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/objecthood6-mckenzie-wark-mette-edvarsen-liam-young/capsula


OBJECTHOOD #6
is
a podcast about objects, in particular about theories that have recently
brought us new perspectives on objects from contemporary art and theory. In
this episode, we talk to McKenzie Wark, Liam Young and Mette Edvardsen
about space. Space, and the spaces we inhabit as mediating objects. Space
as object of desire, as the ultimate “outer”. Space as a medium for
extremely strange objects, from heavenly bodies to UFOs and many other
myths. A three-way look at the idea of space, from political theory to
performance art.


*This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative
Europe programme of the European Union*.

*Music commissioned to Stephan Mathieu. Curated and produced by Roc Jiménez
de Cisneros.*


2-
*PROBES series. Curated by Chris Cutler
*

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag

PROBES  takes Marshall McLuhan’s
conceptual contrapositions as a starting point to analyse and expose the
search for a new sonic language made urgent after the collapse of tonality
in the twentieth century. The series looks at the many probes and
experiments that were launched in the last century in search of new musical
resources, and a new aesthetic; for ways to make music adequate to a world
transformed by disorientating technologies.

You can find the latest instalment of the series, tackling the issue of
noise - and what we mean by it – before examining the toy symphonies and
the musical career of the infamous toy piano.


*3- SON[I]A #268. Jodi Dean
*

Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/maria-eugenia-rodriguez-palop-main/capsula

Jodi Dean talks about communism as a still-latent project, about the Party
as a scalable global form, about dystopian municipalism, anamorphic
ecologies, and liberal democracies, about Not An Alternative and Liberate
Tate as examples of sustainable activism practices at museums, about
desires, enthusiasm, and trust and about the emotions captured inside
social media.

*This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative
Europe programme of the European Union.*

*Music commissioned to Anna Irina Russell. Editing by Antonio Gagliano.*

*4- SON[I]A #267. Maria Eugenia Rodriguez Palop

(only
available in Spanish)*

Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/maria-eugenia-rodriguez-palop-main/capsula

María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop talks about “new municipalism” , about the
need to adapt justice and human rights to citizen empowerment, about the
left’s failure and about the need to recognise ourselves as vulnerable,
interdependent beings, and to adapt our public policies accordingly, from a
feminist activist perspective.

*5- INTERRUPTIONS #6. Ontology of vibration: economics, music and number.
 *
*Curated by Marcus Schmickler*
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_marcus_schmickler/capsula
Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20111031/06Interruptions_eng_PDF.pdf

This mix revises some of the exciting contemporary musical works utilizing
a notion of mathematics and number. These compositions represent what could
be called perceptive or sensual mathematics.


*E/N/J/O/Y*

*E/N/J/O/Y*
*E/N/J/O/Y*
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[spectre] // State Machines Commission: 'Vending Private Network' //

[Julian Oliver]

Dear Spectre,

The Critical Engineering Working Group are pleased to present a new work:

//->

VENDING PRIVATE NETWORK (2018)

Virtual Private Networking as Publicly Funded Infrastructure

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have come into increasing demand in recent
years, providing route encryption through hostile networks. In China, Vietnam,
Turkey and Pakistan they also serve to mitigate government censorship, such that
foreign sites otherwise blocked by state firewalls are made available to VPN
users (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, activist sites and digital libraries being
the most common).

Vending Private Network takes the form of a condom vending machine, such as
those typically seen in public toilets, nightclubs and bars. Equipped with
mechanical buttons, a coin-slot and USB ports, it offers 4 VPN routes, each
adorned with an animated graphic depicting a fantasy destination.

Audiences are invited to insert a USB stick into the slot, a coin (1 pound or
euro) into the machine, and to select a VPN destination by pressing a mechanical
button. In doing so, a unique VPN configuration file is then written to the USB
stick. Special instructions (in the form of a README.txt) are also copied,
explaining how to use the VPN in a special ‘sheathed’ mode that evades detection
methods (namely Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI) used by corporations and
state-controlled infrastructure administrators. This is the only means known to
work against state controlled firewalls.

https://criticalengineering.org/projects/vending-private-network/

Vending Private Network was developed by J. Oliver and D. Vasiliev, representing
the Critical Engineering Working Group, 2018.

//<-
 
Vending Private Network is currently on show at Furtherfield, London, as part of
'Transnationalisms', curated by James Bridle, and will tour onward to 3 other
locations internationally.

https://www.furtherfield.org/events/transnationalisms/

Vending Private Network was the recipient of the generous State Machines
Commission, 2018:


https://www.statemachines.eu/projects/vending-private-network-by-the-critical-engineering-working-group/

All the best, 

-- 
Julian Oliver
https://julianoliver.com
https://criticalengineering.org
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