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curators
on Friday April 26, @07:48AM
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German hacker Rena Tangens will present a lecture entitled "Pretty Good Privacy" as part of the public programs series accompanying Open_Source_Art_Hack. This lecture will cover the "Big Brother Awards" presented to organizations, institutions or individuals who invade people’s privacy or leak data to third parties.
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German hacker Rena Tangens will present a lecture entitled "Pretty Good Privacy" as part of the public programs series accompanying Open_Source_Art_Hack. This lecture will cover the "Big Brother Awards" presented to organizations, institutions or individuals who invade people’s privacy or leak data to third parties. Tangens will also discuss the German manual of the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy and compare European concepts of privacy with those of the United States.
Rena Tangens, artist and networking pioneer, lives and works in Bielefeld, Germany. Experimental film, video and free radio work. Founded the gallery and art project "Art d4Ameublement" together with colleague padeluun in 1984. Online since 1987. She brought the first modem to the international art exhibition documenta in 1987 and women haecksen) into the hackers association Chaos Computer Club. 1988 artist in residence in Canada. Tangens is co-founder of the association FoeBuD e.V., the BIONIC bbs and the independent networks Z-Netz and CL in Germany and Zamir Transnational Network (set up during the war in former Yugoslavia from 1992). Also worked in software development for the ZERBERUS bbs program. Advancement of Privacy as precondition for living democracy and respect of the network as a social Space has been focus of her work since.
She is curator of the ongoing monthly culture and technology event PUBLIC DOMAIN since 1987. Published with FoeBuD the first manual on PGP encryption in German language. Since 2000 organizer and jury member of the Big Brother Awards ("the oscars for surveillance") in Germany.
Artist’s web site: http://www.tangens.de
Pretty Good Privacy: http://www.foebud.org/texte/presse/artikel
Big Brother Awards: http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/en/
Privacy Card: http://www.foebud.org/texte/aktion/privacy-cardb
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