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Interview with Dr Margo DeMello, Cultural Anthropologist

presented by Margo Demello

Even if [the media] are going to talk about a fine art show in Paris, they still fall back on those same old phrases, which is, “You’re not going to find sailors here!”

Interview with Paul Sayce, Vice-President, Tattoo Club of Great Britain

presented by Paul Sayce

I’ve been tattooed by members of my family and people who’ve never tattooed before, because I just want the mark. To me, the tattooing is more of a mark than an actual picture.

Interview with Dr. Matt Lodder, Art Historian

presented by Matt Lodder

Not really many art professionals, or any art professionals really, have though through what this might mean for art practice and art theory. How can we think about tattooing as an art form? If we do think about it as an art form, what are the consequences of that for the ways tattooing is normally understood?

Steal This Talk

presented by Wilson Miner

Appropriation is something we’re really uncomfortable with. We talk about it mostly in negative terms, when we even talk about it at all. But it’s also weirdly a pretty fundamental part of how we work.

Where to From Here?

presented by Cory Doctorow

Although we haven’t reached peak surveillance, we’ve reached peak indifference to surveillance. There will never be another day in which fewer people give a shit about this because there’ll never be a day in which fewer people’s lives have been ruined by this.

No, Thank You: Agency, Imagination, and Possibilities for Rejecting World-Changing Tech

presented by Allison Burtch, Kate Crawford, Lauren McCarthy, Meredith Whittaker

We’re trying to say it’s on you, it’s your responsibility, figure this out, download this, understand end-to-end encryption, when it’s a shared problem and it’s a communal problem.

Ask a Prison Librarian about Privacy, Technology, and State Control

presented by Cory Doctorow, Sarah Ball

What does it mean to be private when you’re in a place where you have no right to privacy but are ironically deprived of the thing that makes your privacy go away?

If You Build It, They Won’t Care: Designing Privacy-Preserving Technologies for People with Other Interests

presented by Ame Elliot, Harlo Holmes, Scout Sinclair Brody, Tyler Reinhard

I think that privacy is something that we can think of in terms of a civil right, as individuals. […] That’s a civil rights issue. But I think there’s also a way to think about it in terms of a social issue that’s larger than simply the individual.

Human Rights Meets Design Challenges

presented by Scout Sinclair Brody

How do we take this right that you have to your data and put it back in your hands, and give you control over it? And how do we do this not just from a technological perspective but how do we do it from a human perspective?

Digital Privacy IRL

presented by Ame Elliot, Noah Biklen, Sarah Gold

As we’re giving our homes this new layer of smartness and intelligence, we’re giving away its ownership to very large organizations. And as we become a generation of renters, what I’m very interested in is how do landlords respond to that?