[Nettime-nl] Joris van Hoboken, Nicolas Malevé and Aymeric Mansoux Public Lecture

[Renee Turner <geuzen@xs4all.nl>]

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Announcer from the Piet Zwart Institute
Master Media Design & Communication: Networked Media
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/
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Sniff, Scrape, Crawl...
Lecture: Joris van Hoboken, Nicolas Malevé and Aymeric Mansoux
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Date: Wednesday, 16/03/2011
Time: doors open at 18:45, lecture begins at 19:00
Location: Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam
Entrance free
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Bringing together artists, programmers and theorists, *Sniff, Scrape,  
Crawl...* is a series of lectures examining the porous borders of  
privacy in the digital age. Previous public events  in this series  
have touched upon a wide rage of topics such as surveillance, data- 
mining, the function and limits of anonymity, and the profound  
influence of network architecture on social, political and legal issues.

The next three talks will continue to explore and expand upon these  
ideas from different perspectives. Joris van Hoboken will be looking  
at search engines, how they track queries and what impact data  
retention and profiling has on our civil liberties.  Nicolas Malevé  
will be speaking about social network platforms and the evolution of  
national and international legal agreements, while drawing parallels  
between the processes of homogenization of the web and the processes  
of legislative harmonization within the EU. Lastly, Aymeric Mansoux  
will be talking about *Naked on Pluto*. The project, which is a  
collaboration between Mansoux, Dave Griffiths and Marloes de Valk, is  
a multiplayer text adventure game on Facebook that explores the perils  
of centralized social networks.

Joris van Hoboken (NL) is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for  
Information Law, and his thesis focuses on regulatory aspects of  
search engines. He graduated cum laude in both Theoretical Mathematics  
(2002) and Law (2006) from the University of Amsterdam. His LL.M.  
thesis dealt with the new Dutch regulations on access to personal data  
in criminal proceedings, i.e. an analysis of how citizens' interests  
are implicated in the limitation of such access. Until September 2006,  
he worked as a paralegal at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and as a co- 
director of Bits of Freedom, a digital civil rights organisation.
Main site: http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/

Nicolas Malevé is an artist, software programmer and data activist  
developing multimedia projects and web applications for and with  
cultural organisations. His current research work is focused on  
cartography, information structures, metadata and the means to  
visually represent them. He lives and works in Barcelona and Brussels.  
Since 1998 Nicolas collaborates with Constant, a non-profit  
association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of  
feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.  
Selection of works: *Copy.cult and the Original Si(g)n*, a project of  
investigation on the alternatives to author's rights. www.constantvzw.com/copy.cult/home
*Yoogle!* an online game that allows users to play with the parameters  
of the Web 2.0 economy and the marketing of personal data. http://yoogle.be

Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist, musician, media researcher and core  
tutor at the Piet Zwart. In 2003, he founded GOTO10 with Thomas Vriet,  
a non profit organization and artist collective, with the goal to  
promote the use and support of free software in electronic music and  
media art creation. Aymeric has been active in the collective until  
2010 and initiated several projects such as: 'make art', a yearly  
international no nonsense festival for software artists using and  
writing free software; 'Puredyne', a popular live GNU/Linux  
distribution for creative media and the 'FLOSS+Art publication', the  
first collection of essays on FLOSS and digital art production.
Main site: http://su.kuri.mu/
Naked on Pluto: http://pluto.kuri.mu/

The *Sniff, Scrape, Crawl...* public lecture series has been realised  
with the collaboration of the Research Project (Lectoraat)  
Communication in a Digital Age.
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