(INFRA)STRUCTURES OF TRUST
New forms of social governance and activism provide alternatives for digital societies trying to reinstate transparency and accountability into the networked system. Can we think of a big data communism, or a digital welfare state, or only techno-capitalisms? What are the infrastructures of trust for a digital society?
Jaromil
― SpeakerDenis Roio, better known by the hacker name Jaromil, is CTO and co~founder of the Dyne.org software house and think & do tank based in Amsterdam, known worldwide for developing and distributing free and open source software with a strong focus on peer to peer networks, social values, cryptography, disintermediation and sustainability. Jaromil holds a Ph.D on “Algorithmic Sovereignty” and received the Vilém Flusser Award at Transmediale (Berlin, 2009) while leading for 6 years the R&D department of the Netherlands Media art Institute (Montevideo/TBA). He is the leading technical architect of DECODE, an EU funded project on blockchain technologies and data ownership, involving pilots in cooperation with the municipalities of Barcelona and Amsterdam.
Paolo Cirio
― SpeakerPaolo Cirio is an artist and hacktivist whose practice investigates, exposes, and subverts the data systems and infrastructures underpinning contemporary power. Working at the intersections of art, technology, and activism, his projects often transform evidence of systemic exploitation into the basis for creative regulatory advocacy. Cirio’s methods—including hacking, piracy, data leaks, identity theft, and cyberattacks—have provoked international debate and resulted in numerous legal threats. He is known for large-scale interventions such as exposing over 200,000 Cayman Islands offshore firms, publishing 1 million Facebook users on a fabricated dating platform, leaking 60,000 financial news articles and pirated e-books from Amazon, and obfuscating 15 million U.S. criminal records. Other projects have included the exposure of 20,000 patents related to technologies of social manipulation, the piracy of 100,000 Sotheby’s auction records, and an attempt to profile 4,000 French police officers through facial recognition. His early works targeted NATO, with cyberattacks and reports on its military operations since 2001. Cirio’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tate Modern (London), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), and ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), as well as at festivals such as transmediale (Berlin) and Ars Electronica (Linz). He has received numerous awards, among them the Golden Nica, first prize at Ars Electronica (2014), second prize at transmediale (2006), an Eyebeam Fellowship (2012), and an NEA grant at ISCP, New York (2017).
Evelyn Wan
― ModeratorDr. Evelyn Wan is Assistant Professor in Media, Arts, and Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is the Programme Coordinator for MA Arts and Society, and works on interdisciplinary curriculum innovation in the domain of Humane AI. In the last 15 years, Wan has worked on theatre projects with asylum seeker youths and has collaborated with various international artists in staging contemporary dance, physical theatre, and site-specific performances as both performer and dramaturg. Her current performance practice uses artistic research methods that intersect technology, colonial and inter-Asian ocean histories, mythology, and spirituality. She is a founding member of the artist collective If Time’s Limited in Hong Kong, and has received funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Hong Kong Arts Centre for various performing arts projects. In the Netherlands, she is part of the Holistic Technology Salon, a network of artists, scholars, and curators at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam).
Arnaud Castaignet
― SpeakerArnaud Castaignet is the Head of Public Relations of the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme. Previously, he worked for the French President François Hollande during 3 years as a digital strategist and communication officer. Prior to his time at the French Presidency, he has worked as an international PR consultant in Paris, advising governments, politicians and corporations on their public relations and influence strategy, and as a business journalist in Istanbul (Turkey). Arnaud graduated from Sciences Po Bordeaux (Institute of Political Studies) in 2009 with a Master in Governance & International Affairs and a BA in Political Science. As part of his university studies, he has studied at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest (Romania) and interned in Belgrade (Serbia), researching about European integration in the Balkans and transitional justice. He is also a Board Member of Open Diplomacy, a Paris-based think tank established in 2010, a Yes Europe Lab fellow, a programme designed to build leadership capacity to implement civic projects and political campaigns in Europe, and a member of the Young Transatlantic Network of Future Leaders, a flagship initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States specifically geared toward young professionals 35 years old and younger.