Julian Oliver. Lecture “TX/RX: Spectrum and the City“

Software developer, inventor and artist Julian Oliver talks about the history and politics of the radio spectrum, its deep impact on the modern city and why it should be a common good. Julian Oliver is a critical engineer and artist, an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and contributor to initiatives that reinforce rights of privacy and anonymity in networked and other technologically-mediated domains. His works have been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian has received several awards, most notably the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev) — device, which allows you to change the text of the news on the way from the media server to the user’s screen. Julian has also given numerous workshops and master classes in software art, data forensics, creative hacking, obj