From gabriel.menotti at gmail.com  Mon Aug  3 19:33:01 2020
From: gabriel.menotti at gmail.com (Gabriel Menotti)
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:33:01 -0400
Subject: <synthesis> Besides the Screen 2020 Festival - online screenings,
 04 + 06 Aug
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References: <CAG=4eDQPwq5XyUuANJV6AQrAwf5TWv3UxtVx4K30raVNY3-X0g@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear all,

Check below the playlists of this week's short movie sessions at the
Besides the Screen 2020 festival.

Sessions will be live streaming at youtube.com/besidesthescreen from 12pm
EST / 6pm CET and stay online for ~8h.

Tue 04 Aug :: BUILDING AUTHORITIES
- Lignano Pineta (Anna Dabrowska, Italy/Netherlands, 2020)
- A Cristaliza??o de Bras?lia (Guerreiro do Divino Amor, Brazil, 2019)
- Just Like Us (Jesse Mclean, USA, 2013).
> Watch at https://youtu.be/ZTMYF27cIyA

Thu 06 Aug :: GHOST / TOWNS
- Kopacabana (Khalil Charif & Marcos Bonisson, Brazil, 2019)
- Earthsatz (Dylan Cote & Pierre Lafanech?re, France, 2019)
- Serial Parallels (Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2019)
- Spectrum (Jeroen Cluckers, Belgium, 2019)
- Triptych (Sergey Maslov, Russia, 2020)
- Mei?ei (Ghost World IV) (Jerome Boulbes, Japan, 2019)
- Abstract Horror (Franz Milec, Czeck Republic, 2019).
> Watch at https://youtu.be/n_RdvS8-3Yg

Check the full program at
http://besidesthescreen.com/2020-festival-screenings

Best!
Menotti
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Aug  6 10:28:07 2020
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 10:28:07 +0200
Subject: <synthesis> MoneyLab links
Message-ID: <36CEC401-E049-4662-B1C0-65843BC82B38@xs4all.nl>

The Emergence of Paid Communities
https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/

Gabriel Nicholas: The Crypto Family Farm
https://logicmag.io/bodies/the-crypto-family-farm/

Brett Scott?s must see video lectures 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWOO7r_NMw

Yanis Varoufakis on why bitcoin is not a socialist?s ally
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-ally-reply-to-ben-arc/

Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/

Nesta DAO essay competition, the finalists
https://www.nesta.org.uk/project-updates/decentralised-digital-organisations-and-key-topics-people-are-talking-about/

SORAnomics: realizing a supranational world economic system
https://medium.com/@sora.xor/sora-the-new-economic-order-3ec3f0327e5a <https://medium.com/@sora.xor/sora-the-new-economic-order-3ec3f0327e5a>

Justin Clemens: In the State of Nature Nothing Will Be Lost
http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2020/05/31/in-the-state-of-nature-nothing-will-be-lost/

Via Patrice and Eduard:

Kenneth Rogoff: Will Covid make countries drop cash and adopt digital currencies?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/06/covid-cash-digital-currencies-coronavirus-central-banks <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/06/covid-cash-digital-currencies-coronavirus-central-banks>

"(...) the central bank is poorly positioned to provide quality service on small retail accounts. Perhaps this could be addressed over time by using artificial intelligence or by expanding financial services offered by post office branches.? re-inventing the wheel - after we burned it). re: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf <https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf>
(from reading the execsum) sounds like a complicated solution for a problem that should not exist in the first place ...




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From andz at torproject.org  Mon Aug 10 10:28:35 2020
From: andz at torproject.org (Vasilis)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:28:35 +0000
Subject: <synthesis> [CFP] [TICS] Topics on Internet Censorship and
 Surveillance 2020
Message-ID: <9c697178-fbd2-0bda-7313-b471f693b05b@torproject.org>

Hello,

TICS has a new call for papers that may be of interest to some of you.

Please feel free to share widely. Thank you!

Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/

# TICS 2020

**Co-located with the [2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web
Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT
2020)](http://wi2020.vcrab.com.au/), to be held online.**

## Introduction

Over the past years there has been a greater demand from large-scale players
such as governments and dominant media companies for online censorship and
surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright
violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and
regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by
a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on
citizens actions.

Numerous whistle-blower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast
amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal
evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the
requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations
in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big
private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright
control.

Mobile networks are particularly vulnerable to the above points. Due to the
nature of their deployment, few actors can achieve far-reaching results, and
end-users are left unprotected; we are interested in tracking developments that,
without sacrificing functionality and convenience, allow end-users to get
control on the amount and breadth of information generated, stored and processed
on them.

TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other
adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the
safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2020
should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network
measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation.

## Workshop topics

The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network
interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider
the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along
those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics:

* Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the
  field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the
  availability of network services and online content
* The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data
  mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law
  enforcement agencies and private corporations
* The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification
  (such as for identification of hate-speech, copyright, or disinformation)
* Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against
  censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI
  infrastructure to mitigate these threats
* Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content
  moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics
* The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies
  of upload filters and recommendation systems
* Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of
  web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric
  experience without violating user freedoms
* Privacy on mobile networks
* Network measurements
* Radio frequency communications
* Data leaks
* Surveillance
* Backdoors into carrier equipment (base stations, antennas, switches, software)
* Law enforcement
* Telcos security and advance persistent threats
* Network espionage and nation state threats (e.g. "operation Soft Cell")
* Middleboxes / DPI
* Content regulation
* Wiretapping
* Net neutrality
* Data retention
* GDPR
* Device/radio blocking (Network IMEI)
* Ownership of infrastructure, and community-operated networks
* Spectrum sharing
* License-exempt spectrum

## Important dates

* Paper Submission due:            September 15th, 2020
* Notification to authors:         October 15th, 2020
* Final, camera ready papers, due: November 15th, 2020
* Workshop date:                   December 14th, 2020

## Paper Submission

**[Paper Submission
Page](https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/ws_submit.php)**

Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM
2-column format.\
The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be
found at: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>

## Committees

### Program Chairs

* Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis at tics.site
* Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios at tics.site
* Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, gwolf at tics.site

You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to:
<chairs at tics.site>

### Program Committee

* Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia
* Keith McManamen, Psiphon
* Will Scott, University of Michigan

## Past Workshops

- [2019 (Valencia, Spain)](https://tics.site/2019)


Best regards,
~Vasilis

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From gabriel.menotti at gmail.com  Mon Aug 10 14:43:19 2020
From: gabriel.menotti at gmail.com (Gabriel Menotti)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:43:19 -0400
Subject: <synthesis> Besides the Screen 2020 Festival - online screenings,
 11 + 13 Aug
In-Reply-To: <CAG=4eDRs+EVLWvqNf5UXOuhXeOuKiSuOxGNhMVBJXNer7=5WOQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG=4eDQPwq5XyUuANJV6AQrAwf5TWv3UxtVx4K30raVNY3-X0g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAG=4eDRs+EVLWvqNf5UXOuhXeOuKiSuOxGNhMVBJXNer7=5WOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG=4eDSr-QjNBQFp=Fz+r8avikq1oUAoMiM47rSLpaQuc5BUng@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

Check below the playlists of this week's short movie sessions at the
Besides the Screen 2020 festival.

Sessions will be live streaming at youtube.com/besidesthescreen from 12pm
EST / 6pm CET and stay online for ~8h.

Tue 11 Aug :: SENDER UNAVAILABLE
- She Can Run, She Can Hide (Victoria Vanderpool, USA, 2020, 8?25)
- The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology (P?ter Lichter, Hungary,
2019, 8?)
- CAN?T ANSWER YOU ANYMORE (ON FACES) (Matt Whitman, USA, 2019, 2?20)
- On clear day you can see forever (Ian Haig, Australia, 2019, 2?40)
- swiping compressed filtered love (et enfin, permettre l?incontr?lable)
(Marie-Eve Levasseur, Canada, 2019, 11?53)
- Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (J?n Bjarki Magn?sson, Iceland, 2018, 17?11)
> Watch at https://youtu.be/Aa0FoMj0XMA

Thu 13 Aug :: THERE IS WORLD A PLENTY
- Breakdown (Daren Kendall, USA, 2020, 6?55)
- Persistent Disturbance (Laurien Bachmann & Sebastian Six, Austria, 2019,
7?55)
- Two (Vasilios Papaioannu, USA, 2018, 8?04, 8?04)
- Al Bahr (Fairuz Ghammam, Tunisia, 2018, 16?32)
- 18 (Mikhail Zheleznikov, Russia, 2019, 18?)
> Watch it at https://youtu.be/ZM295LeNuZM

Check the full program at
http://besidesthescreen.com/2020-festival-screenings

Best!
Menotti
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From gabriel.menotti at gmail.com  Mon Aug 17 13:23:20 2020
From: gabriel.menotti at gmail.com (Gabriel Menotti)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:23:20 -0400
Subject: <synthesis> Besides the Screen 2020 Festival - online screenings,
 18 + 20 Aug
In-Reply-To: <CAG=4eDQxJj9pwn=JPbK7e1Ne_9Vf4s6yP80cZivHfi0OHE=A6g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG=4eDQPwq5XyUuANJV6AQrAwf5TWv3UxtVx4K30raVNY3-X0g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAG=4eDRs+EVLWvqNf5UXOuhXeOuKiSuOxGNhMVBJXNer7=5WOQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAG=4eDQxJj9pwn=JPbK7e1Ne_9Vf4s6yP80cZivHfi0OHE=A6g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG=4eDS4ZvGjo_SOxd782PT55HXc=w6TfTif66Xw5fHwGu3wgQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

Check below the playlists of this week's short movie sessions at the
Besides the Screen 2020 festival.

Sessions will be live streaming at youtube.com/besidesthescreen from 12pm
EST / 6pm CET and stay online for ~8h.

Tue 18 Aug :: REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH
- Power Trip (Christopher Boulton, USA, 2018, 10')
- Reproduction Interdite (Johannes Binotto, Switzerland, 2019, 4?53)
- Hard (Luksuz Produkcija, Slovenia, 2019, 5?50)
- Which Image (Carla Miguelote, Brazil, 2018, 13?30)
- Recoding Art (Bruno Moreschi & Gabriel Pereira, Netherlands, 2019, 14?32)
- Cirkut/Canadettes (Sara Angelucci, Canada, 2019, 10?32)
> Watch at https://youtu.be/D3AfbAa3N0k

Thu 20 Aug :: NATIONAL ARCHIVES
- Searching for the Perfect Gentleman ? an investigative journey (Lena
Windisch, Germany, 2019, 9?55)
- 2006 The Only Year That I Remember (Alberto Van den Eynde, Spain, 2019,
14?10)
- At Home But Not At Home (Suneil Sanzgiri, India, 2019, 10?15)
- We Love Me (Naween Noppakun, Thailand, 2017, 13?18)
- 7FF On?idia (?, Brazil, 2017, 8?12)
> Watch it at https://youtu.be/28tcqg6oqgQ

Check the full program at
http://besidesthescreen.com/2020-festival-screenings

Best!
Menotti
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Sat Aug 22 11:03:03 2020
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:03:03 +0200
Subject: <synthesis> MoneyLab board and agenda
Message-ID: <89BC859F-65E5-48F2-A794-A37FE1DAEE9E@xs4all.nl>

https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/about/the-moneylab-board-and-agenda/ <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/about/the-moneylab-board-and-agenda/>

By Inte Gloerich (INC)
The Institute of Network Cultures has coordinated the MoneyLab project for seven year. With every instance (conferences, books, etc), a core team came together to define urgent topics, select cutting edge work, and bring the community together. At each moment the network materialized, for example at conferences in Buffalo, NY and Siegen, Germany, it accumulated insights, new topics, and connected to more people working in diverse ways to carve out space for a more democratic financial system.

In 2020, MoneyLab was hosted as an online debate series by Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art out of Ljubljana, Slovenia. At the same time, teams in Helsinki, Berlin, Copenhagen and Canberra are investigating the possibilities of hosting a MoneyLab event locally in the near future. At the INC, we have taken this international enthusiasm for MoneyLab topics as an incentive to reconsider the organization of the network itself.

Rethinking the economy and experimenting with alternative money design is a global effort. Discussions happen locally with local concerns, as well as within a globally connected economic culture. The organizational structure of MoneyLab needs to reflect this.

That is why the INC MoneyLab team has decided to open the project up. A globally dispersed board has been set up to expand the network, explore emerging topics, and support initiatives of the network. Anyone interested in contributing to MoneyLab can reach out to one or all of the board members. MoneyLab activities can include the entire network, or consist of focussed work with just a few members. The board is not there to direct the network, but rather to allow the various corners to learn from and connect to each other.

The (initial) MoneyLab board consists of:

Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University <mhaiven [at] lakeheadu.ca>
Denise Thwaites, curator and Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities at the University of Canberra <Denise.Thwaites [at] canberra.edu.au>
Nathaniel Tkacz, Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at Warwick University <nathanieltkacz [at] gmail.com>
Ela Kagel, co-founder/managing director of Supermarkt, Berlin <ela [at] supermarkt-berlin.net>
Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences <geert [at] xs4all.nl>
This document is meant to serve as a guide to the history of ?MoneyLab 1.0?, as well as an explanation of the particular mix of sensitivities that make up the MoneyLab Agenda. This agenda can inform future choices and serve as inspiration as new technologies emerge and political realities come into being. Find the full document here:

A Distributed MoneyLab ? The MoneyLab Agenda <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/08/ML-AGENDA.pdf>
One of the strategies in this new era for MoneyLab is the organization of ?general assemblies? to discuss the future of the network with its members. The first one was held during MoneyLab #7 in Amsterdam (November 2019). The documentation of the meeting can be found below:

ML General Assembly #1 Report <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/08/ML-GA-Report.pdf>
ML General Assembly #1 Attachment <https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/08/ML-GA-Report-Attachment.pdf>

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