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0zapftis!

Posted by Christian

German government malware reverse-engineered by the CCC  shown to be incompatible with the constitution. And very badly coded.

Here’s the CCC’s press release, with some juicy details:
http://www.ccc.de/system/uploads/76/original/staatstrojaner-report23.pdf

And some more insight:
http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b06e60e0

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’s original article
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/chaos-computer-club-der-deutsche-staatstrojaner-wurde-geknackt-11486538.html

Update: a PDF of the Feuilleton pages with the funky source code.
“Der gefährlichste Abschnitt der Spionagesoftware auf fünf Seiten: ein Text, den wir nicht verstehen – und der doch unser Leben bestimmt.”

 

SAG 2011: The Mike Wallace Interview

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The Mike Wallace Interview. Click to enlarge.

“Whether you agree or disagree with what you will hear, we feel that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast.”

Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and important people of the day.

The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960, but the Ransom Center collection includes interviews from only 1957 and 1958. In the early 1960s, Mr. Wallace donated to the Ransom Center kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence.

Copyright of all of the interviews is held by Mike Wallace, who generously agreed to allow the Ransom Center to present them here in their entirety. Any further use of this material requires the permission of both Mike Wallace and the Ransom Center.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/

SAG 2011: schedule

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06  April 2011 opening course description + demo of smartboard
13  April 2011 Christopher Csikszentmihalyi’s talk and student work review.
20 April 2011 Daniela Kinateder’s talk “Panopticon LV I-I”
05 and 06 May 2011 field trip to Hamburg for talks and exhibition

16 May 2011 Martha Rosler visiting the seminar
17 May 2011 discussion, Martha Rosler and scheduled student presentations
18 May 2011 seminar scheduled students’ presentations
24 May 2011 Susanna Schoenberg “Some Basics on Telecommunication and Multivariante Data Analysis (while cooking Italian)”
25 May 2011 seminar lecture + students’ presentations (mid term review)

01 June 2011 Karin Harrasser and Aino Korvensyrjä: lecture

SAG 2011: about Marina Abramovic

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interviews & performances on video @KHM mediathek:

Abramovic – Ulay  / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam  : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Zaugg, Remy   [Regie] : Positive zero . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 34 Min.) : farb. . – (Modus vivendi ; 2,2 )5 ;
Sign.: VID V 1261 Znr.: 98 V 249,2

Coulibeuf, Pierre [Regie] : The Star – Marina Abramovic / Regie: Pierre Coulibeuf. Drehbuch: Marina Abramovic … . – 1 (VHS, 60 Min.) : farb.
Sign.: VID TV 1475 Znr.: 99 TV 30

Art meets science and spirituality in a changing economy
Abramovic, Marina : / Marina Abramovic (art), Fritjof Capra (science), Raimon Panikkar (spirituality) . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, ca. 45 Min.) : farb. 5 ;
Sign.: VID V 0267 Znr.: 92 V 225

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
China ring, unedited video notebook . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 159 Min.) : farb., teilw. s/w . – (Continental videoseries ; 3,2 )7 ;
Sign.: VID V 1263 Znr.: 98 V 250,2

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Action in 14 predetermined sequences . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 30 Min.) : s/w . – (A performance anthology ; 1,2 )2 ;
Sign.: VID V 1258 Znr.: 98 V 248,2

A performance anthology : (1975 – 1980) / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 3 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb. . – (Abramovic – Ulay ; 1 )
Four performances by Abramovic (1975 – 1976) . – Originalfassung , [S.a.] . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 60 Min.) : s/w . – (Abramovic – Ulay ; 1 )1,1 ;
Sign.: VID V 1257 Znr.: 03 V 52

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Communist body / fascist body . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 154 Min.) : farb. . – (Modus vivendi ; 2,1 )4 ;
Sign.: VID V 1260 Znr.: 98 V 249,1

ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies 2011

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Weimar (Germany), June 6-10, 2011
Deadline: Feb 20, 2011

The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für
Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University (Department of German), will take place from June 6 – June
10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany. Conceived as the first in a series of annual summer schools that will be held alternately at the IKKM Weimar
and at Princeton University, the 2011 program will be directed by Lorenz Engell (Weimar) and Thomas Levin (Princeton).

This year’s summer school will focus on the comparative analysis and theoretical investigation of selected aspects of surveillance culture.
The weeklong series of seminars, workshops, and lectures will be devoted to an examination of the technological, aesthetic, political,
and conceptual dimensions of surveillance practices. The summer school will address these practices specifically within the categories of
monitoring, tracking, and data aggregation.

The concept of monitoring is especially relevant to surveillance practices inherent in television technology and therefore refers to new
forms of engaging with the visual. Tracking, on the other hand, refers to a wider scope of the politics of control, which are promoted, for
instance, by the use of devices such as GPS and cell phone positionality services. Furthermore, these politics also underlie the
emerging cultures of social media.

The aggregation of vast databases of personal information gathered from, for example, frequent flyer accounts, surfing history,
toll-roads, cell phone and credit card usage, all result from the ability to track information. This process of data aggregation is aimed
at the production of cyber-portraiture – or the ‘data shadow’ – which exists for nearly everyone and calls into question the notion of
informational self-determination within the framework of what one could call a surveillance ontology (I am surveilled therefore I am).

The summer school will discuss and compare these practices of surveillance and offer in-depth analyses of both the conceptual
framework and the media of surveillance.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer
School for Media Studies 2011. In: H-ArtHist, Feb 2, 2011.
<http://arthist.net/archive/769>.

SAG 2011: about Geert Lovink

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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Lovink
Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is a Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School, and an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Lovink earned his master’s degree in political science at the University of Amsterdam, holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland.

Lovink is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue.[3] As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.

@khm mediathek:
Lovink, Geert : Zero comments  : Elemente einer kritischen Internetkultur  / Geert Lovink . – Bielefeld  : Transcript , 2008 . – 326 S. . – 978-3-89942-804-9. – (Kultur- und Medientheorie ). – 3-89942-804-8
Sign.: MED C.1.3 – 63 Znr.: 08 K 1627

Lovink, Geert : Dark fiber : tracking critical internet culture / Geert Lovink . – Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press , 2002 . – XI, 382 S. . – 0-262-12249-9. – (Electronic culture )
Sign.: MED L.3 – 79 Znr.: 02 K 970

Lovink, Geert : The principle of notworking : concepts in critical internet culture ; public lecture delivered on 24 Februari 2005 / Geert Lovink . – Amsterdam : Hogeschool van Amsterdam , 2005 . – 29 S. . – 90-5629-380-X. – (HvA Publicaties ). – 978-90-5629-380-2
Sign.: MED C.1.3 – 68 Znr.: 08 K 1091

Lovink, Geert : Uncanny networks : dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia / Geert Lovink . – Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press , 2002 . – XV, 374 S. . – 0-262-12251-0. – (Leonardo )
Sign.: MED L.3 – 83 Znr.: 03 K 544