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Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes

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Google Glass Hacks

Glass Hacks Fun and frightening uses of always-on camera enabled wearable computers

A one hour technical lecture that covers everything from machine learning and AI to hardware design and manufacture. Includes demonstrations of applications enabled by an always-on image capturing wearable computer. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of the field’s status quo, how we got here, and insight into what’s around the corner. Always-on camera enabled wearable computers, like Google Glass and Lambda Hat, enable a variety of slightly creepy, but undeniably useful applications. For the past few months, I’ve worn a computing device that takes pictures every few seconds. I run facial detection over the image stream, pulling out every face I have seen. Soon, we’ll be able to conduct mass facial recognition using this data. Other applications include detecting license plates and automatically uploading them to a public GPS tagged website. This talk will cover the history, state of the art, and future of wearable computing, machine learning, and the privacy implication of this technology.

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Art of the Exploit: An Introduction to Critical Engineering

Art of the Exploit: An Introduction to Critical Engineering

In this lecture Julian will introduce projects and interventions made by himself and others that foreground Engineering, rather than Art, in the creative and critical frame, offering highly public insights into the hidden mechanisms and power struggles within our technical environment. Projects such as the Transparency Grenade, Packetbruecke and Newstweek will be covered in detail. Art has long been celebrated as an important frame for critical reflection upon contemporary life. In the post-industrial era however, complex tools, formal languages and hidden infrastructure increasingly influence how we communicate, move and remember; now an inextricable part of our Environment.

So it follows that to ignore the languages and ideas that comprise engineering – from Computer Networking and Programming to BioTechnology and Electronics – is to become unable to describe, and thus critically engage, the world we live in. While this presents a challenge for the traditional artist, it is one that an engineer not working in service to science and industry – a Critical Engineer – is able to meet.

In this lecture Julian will introduce projects and interventions made by himself and others that foreground Engineering, rather than Art, in the creative and critical frame, offering highly public insights into the hidden mechanisms and power struggles within our technical environment. Projects such as the invasive Transparency Grenade, Packetbruecke (a location-distorting tree of 802.11 radios) and Newstweek (a wall plug that allows the owner to manipulate news headlines read on wireless hotspots) will be introduced in detail.