Find more information, scrying logs and th3ory here

Photo reportage is here and here

opening on December 18th from 20.00h ++ afterparty till late…

more info here

more info here

*Pirates of the Amazon Add-on*

“How can you compete with free? You cant!”
Lawrence Lessig

The Firefox add-on “Pirates of the Amazon” inserts a “download 4 free” button on Amazon, which links to corresponding Piratebay BitTorrents. The add-on lowers the technical barrier to enable anyone to choose between “add to shopping cart” or “download 4 free”. Are you a pirate?

To download/install the add-on, and for more information on the project, please visit http://pirates-of-the-amazon.com

This release is part of the upcoming Launch Party of “Artzilla.org“, which will take place at WORM in Rotterdam on the 13th of December.
During this event the audience will be able to browse the net using several artistic browser modifications and Firefox add-ons, in Artzilla.org’s first Firefox add-on exhibition ►► participating artists include ::

• Theo Watson
  Aram Bartholl
  Evan Roth
  Dragan Espenschied
  Timo Klok
  Jamie Wilkinson
  Danja Vasiliev
  Tobias leingruber

Besides good tunes by surprise DJ’s and live acts, the evening will also host speed presentations by Theo Watson, Timo Klok, Danja Vasiliev and Evan Roth - moderated by tobi-x and with special guests Florian Cramer (/PietZwartInstituteMDMA/) and  (/ubermorgen.com/) …

For more info on this event, and for reservations, please visit WORMWEB

Theoretical and hands-on Workshop exploring the obscure, crystal and liquid electromagnetic world which surrounds us.

Here the vulgar eye will see nothing but Obscurity and will despair considerably.

Scrying is a technique of divination and revelation, of producing visions, perhaps of the future, through prolonged gaze at an object, usually of crystal or liquid nature. Scrying was famously practiced by the 16th century astronomer, mathematician and alchemist John Dee with the assistance of presumed impostor Edward Kelley, using a mirror of obsidian amongst other devices.

Martin Howse (UK/DE): Independent xxxxx research organisation examines the software real, life and live coding, autodestructive strategy and crash-falsified revelation.

Where: moddr_lab

When: 17, 18, 19th December 2008 (12am-6pm)

Please contact us at workshop [at] moddr [dot] net if you’d like to participate!

To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is a Zurich-based media collective that became notorious, amongst others, by bugging the Zurich opera with radio transmitters and offering free live telephone broadcasts of the opera performances to the neighborhood, aesthetic hacking of movie files, and a pirate TV station based on media illegally downloaded from the Internet. The group does not understand hacking as a cult of technology geeks, but as a social intervention and practice everyone can adopt. To this end, they have been touring with their workshop series ,,A Hack a Day“, inviting and working with local and international artists.

On friday, during the day, they will be at WORM to take you on a city walk where they’ll do some serious security camera hacking. You are free and very welcome to join.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik are Carmen Weisskopf, Domagoj Smoljo, Silvan Leuthold, Sven König (since 2007) and Daniel Ryser (since 2007), Adnan Hadzi (since 2008) and Sameer Sait (since 2008). The city walk will be leaded by Carmen and Domagoj.

A hack a day #10

After a short introduction to Sousveillance and CCTV film making, we will set out on a walk through the city of Rotterdam. Equipped with CCTV video signal receivers we will let the incoming surveillance camera signals lead us through the city. The CCTV video signal receivers will catch surveillance camera signals in public and private spaces and make them visible: surveillance becomes sousveillance. By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to the “surveillance from above” enabling us to use these images for a personal narrative of the city.

Workshop with construction manual for later DIY! Attendance free Whoever has handycam, bring it! (plus cable and fully charged battery!)). 13.30h - 17.00h Start @ Piet Zwart Institute - Karel Doormanhof 45

Please sign up by mailing to: katelyn@wormweb.nl (This is not obligatory to join, you can also join Bitnik spontaneously, but it’s handy for us to know)

moddr_ will be participating in this conference hosted by VirtueelPlatform in Amsterdam. We were invited to join a workgroup on ‘Future Cultural Organisations’, led by Aymeric Mansoux.

The “future cultural organisations” workgroup is a 2 day session in which we will attempt to sketch a fictional organisation using networks as a playground. From the personal experience of the participants, we will try to filter which online services make a difference and what are the pros and cons of online autonomy in the post web 2.0 era.

Walled Garden is a 2-day international conference that will take place on 20 & 21 November 2008 in Amsterdam.
This international working conference will approach the development and future challenges of the current Web 2.0 through exploration, experimentation and exchange of knowledge. Our goal: a blueprint for policy makers, funders and practitioners that works towards a public garden.

download our wireless hacking cheat-sheet!
http://moddr.net/content/moddr_why-fi.png

check the photo documentation of the workshop:
http://moddr.net/jpg/?level=album&id=5

Sometimes we can still enjoy the luck of finding an open Wi-Fi network that some generous geek left free or occupied house-wife forgot to secure. Sadly, most recent wireless access points come off the shop shelfs being pre-configured with rather strong encryption. We believe that regardless the settings the devices sold with, people still might not mind us using their wireless for the common good. All we need to do is to help them share it.

On another hand the concept of wireless security is a flaky topic to begin with. Anything what is in the air (like the radio waves) can be captured and decoded. There are no barriers for anyone to tap into anyone else’s radio network and with the power of modern computers cracking the encryption takes very symbolic time to complete.

The workshop will showcase the ease of cracking WEP/WPA wireless network encryptions as a way for understanding the risks of Wi-Fi networks and will provide participants with handy computer skill for the precarious offline times. Further on, easy ways of securing your own wireless environment will be taught.

>> bring your laptop
>> and tell us which model it is
>> [so that we won't need to configure it during the workshop]

References:

• http://www.wired.com/politics/security
• http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com
• http://backtrack.offensive-security.com
• http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog
• http://www.aircrack-ng.org

The workshop will be accompanied with a dinner by charming Bruno, our “moddr_ cook” in residence.

>> you all make the world a better place.

ADMISSION? - free!, FOOD: 3euro

WHEN? - 16th of November 2008, 5pm (this is final)

WHERE? - moddr_lab, Willem Buytewechstraat 188a, Rotterdam, Netherlands [find_us].

Amount of places is limited, please contact us at workshop [at] moddr [dot] net if you would like to participate.

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Check out the current programme at daal and drop by if you happen to be in the romantic city called Vienna ;)