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re:publica 17 - All Sessions vor 9 Jahren

With live interventions as his basis, Julian will read signal domains - from WiFi to GSM and analog radio - as techno-political territories, opening up questions of ownership, mobility and control in a world where technical forms of activism and decentral

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Julian Oliver What can we, as civilians, do with radio? What can
and can't we listen to, and why? What are our rights of broadcast?
If the air we breathe is considered public, why not that which
passes through it? Doubling as both intervention and lecture,
Julian will lead the audience through an unbridled, hands-on
exploration of radio infrastructure on which we depend, from GSM to
GPS and WiFi. In doing so, he will read signal domains as highly
patrolled techno-political territories, opening up questions of
ownership, surveillance and control with a view to activism and
decentralised, publicly-owned infrastructure.