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Hackmeeting - 19th-20th-21st June 2009 - Milan

@Social centre Sos fornace, via San Martino 20-Rho

 

Warm up – 9th to 18th June 2009 – Milan Universities

 

 

Nerds, techno-geeks, cyber-activists, net artists, creative geniuses, creators, subvertisers and, most of all, hackers! Get ready!

This year the Hackmeeting, the annual meeting of the Italian hacking scene, will take place in Milan. And, with the occasion, it will open, spread, jump to a new dimension, ending up – as pirates are expected to – far beyond the territories they could tread on by the law. With its twelve-year-old experience, the Hackmeeting has involved many Italian realities (taking place in a different city every year – from Palermo to Turin), aiming especially at individuals with a curious and playful approach to technology – and not only that. For, apart from technology, the Hackmeeting also ventures into all sorts of fields – from social sciences to psychology, up to arts, ecology, cooking and so on.


This year, the Hackmeeting will double by splitting between a Warm-up period and the Meeting itself, thus appealing to those who until now have believed that they had nothing to do with this world... even though they downloaded some songs, had a look at the latest movie, tried to connect to their neighbour’s wireless network and even recovered their operating system that kept crashing...


During the Warm-up period (9th to 18th June), the Hackmeeting will get inside universities and lure researchers, philosophers and poets, because the culture of hacking never could restrain itself to motherboards, chips or coaxial cables, and always insisted in forcing its boundaries, which are determined by market, social control, and security, by the attempt to standardize everything, and by the obligations that prevent the thought from evolving. Hackit will then go back home for its proper Meeting (19th to 21st June) in the Sos Fornace, a recently occupied place in Rho, where it will take care of its own roots, the only ones that can generate new ramifications and embrace the future.


Practical information

 

 

Contact: Teresa Bernini -- giornalisti@anche.no --- 320 8178535

 

 

DETAILED PROGRAM

 


WARM UP – 9th to 18th June 2009

 

Hacking Tales

9th June – Accademia di belle arti di Brera – aula Napoleonica (aula magna)

Via Brera, 28 – Milano – 2 to 5 pm History of hacking and networking as an artistic and hacker practice (with references to hacktivism and artivism), with Antonio Caronia, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Putro.

 

Open-source

11th June – Politecnico di Milano – piazza Leonardo – Milan – from 5 pm Open-source and free software: an introduction (free as free speech, not as free beer )

 


From cyberpunk to post-cyberpunk

 

11th June – 9.30 pm – ShaKe bookshop, viale Bligny 42

“From cyberpunk to post-cyberpunk in Italy”, meeting with two authors at the (opposite?) extremes of cyberpunk: Elisabetta Vernier (Clipart, a novel issued in April) and Dario Tonani (Infect@, Algoritmo bianco, published with the famous SF series “Urania”). An event by Delos / Fantascienza.it & Gomma.

Projection of historical cyberpunk videos. The meeting will take place simultaneously in Second Life on Decoder’s island, thanks to Juliet Calvin.

 

Paura Anche No 

(“Fear? No, thanks”)

12th June – Department of Social science, Polo universitario Bicocca – Building U7, in via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8 – Milan – 4 to 7.30 pm The Babau (or Bogey), the game of fear and the patterns of security, with Massimiliano Guareschi - Agenzia X, Marcello Maneri, professor of sociology, who will talk about the perception of security and the politics of fear, and Marco Capovilla, who will show what’s at stake: the language of photography and of other media; presentation of the paura.anche.no campaign against the politics of fear. The event will close with a terrific buffet.

Open design

15th-16th-17th June – Politecnico di Milano – Department of Design, Polo universitario Bovisa – Via Durando 38/A – Milan – from 10 am, all day long 15th-16th June – Open Hardware – workshop, discussion, readings, experiments between the opportunities of open source and the practice of design, with Massimo Banzi and the Arduino platform (http://www.arduino.cc/it/).

17th June – Open modelling, 3d & Blender, modelling, rendering, animation, with the kino3D community, Gianluca Faletti, Mario Ambrogetti, Davide Vercelli and Francesco Paglia from SparkDE.

 

Eco-Hacking

17th June – Social centre Cascina Torchiera Senz’acqua – Piazzale Cimitero Maggiore 18 – Milan – from 5 pm Eco-hacking practices: how to create a solar panel, recycling, biking, urban gardening with different groups from Milan, the urban fear of night and nature.


After the crisis: Open Economy? 18th June – Department of Political Science, via Conservatorio 7 – Milan – from 2 to 7 pm Open does not just mean Open Source Software anymore (though this is one of its crucial dimensions), but also Open Hardware, Open Agriculture, Open Ecology, Open Design and even Open Money. A meeting introduced by Adam Ardvisson, professor of sociology of globalization, with the participation of Magnus Erikson, Pirat Bureau, Davide Biolghini, of the DES – distretti di economia solidale (“districts of fair economy”), Stefano Zacchiroli, of the Debian operating system (http://www.debian.org/), Nicolai Peitersen, The Ethical Economy Ltd., London “Open Business and Sustainability: Can it Work?” (in English). The event will be closed by an open organic buffet.

 

HACKMEETING – @ Sos Fornace, via San Martino 20, Rho (Milan)


Three days of non-stop LAN space, file sharing, discussions and workshops that are difficult to describe because they are in constant evolution. This year, apart from the traditional seminars on Linux and other fundamental software, there will be workshops dedicated to: the human vs. machine interaction; sex, gender and web; surveillance and self-defence; information, fear, security, social control and new frontiers of the IT workplace; Open business and ethical economies; archiving tools; streaming; kernel interpretations and modifications. During the Meeting, on Decoder’s Island in Second Life there will be an audio streaming of the events. A space in the venue will be entirely dedicated to open movies: a selection of films that are close to the culture of hacking. Some seminars will also address teen-agers, and of course there will be a space for children.


The workshops will be interspersed with electric theatre performances, hacking challenges, games, slide shows and anything belonging to realm of net art.

vedi anche

http://it.hackmeeting.org/press