- Watch the livestream video here
- 10:30 am - Doors open, come early if you need help installing anything
- 11:00 am - Intro & kickoff
- 11:30 am - Session 1
- 1:30 pm - Lunch (byo sandwich or neighborhood deli)
- 2:30 pm - Session 2
- 4:30 pm - Wrap up & final questions
- Curriculum can be found here
This workshop is ideal for those who are interested in learning how to packet sniff or learn what that even means. We will use Herbivore, an open source tool that demystifies the world of network packets for the uninitiated. A handful of packet sniffing libraries and desktop applications already exist for analyzing network packets, but they were designed for people who have programming experience or a network engineering background; they were not designed as educational tools for people without technical backgrounds. In this workshop we will go through the basics of what packet sniffing means, run through a few exercises and let you try it out.
You will need a Mac to run Herbivore. Even if you don’t have a Mac, you’ll still learn a whole bunch. We encourage participants to work together and share computers.
Surya Mattu is a Brooklyn based artist, engineer and investigative journalist who look at the ways in which algorithmic systems perpetuate systemic biases and inequalities in society. He is currently the data reporter at Gizmodo’s Special Projects Desk and a resident at Eyebeam. Previously, he was a contributing researcher at ProPublica, where he worked on Machine Bias, a series that aims to highlight how algorithmic systems can be biased and discriminate against people. Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism. He has shown work at The Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Sundance Film Festival The Whitney Museum, V&A Museum and Bitforms Gallery
- Curriculum & slides can be found here
In this course we will build Twitter bots that can be used to engage users politically with tweets that reflect social injustices. This will be done through a text editor, such as Atom, and using node.js. Goals of this course include teaching students how to “hack” social media for activist purposes, how to build personal APIs, how to build a Twitter bot, and gaining a basic understanding of coding.
Basic programming knowledge, particularly in Javascript, would be helpful, but this will be an introductory session aimed at beginners.
Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, designer, creative technologist and activist passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience. She is currently a master’s candidate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Outside of class, Ari is creator of Justice Factory, a data visualization platform highlighting social justice issues and currently part of the Processing Fellowship; lifestyle movement, Be Gold On The Inside; building a line of experimental “neo-retro” digital analog cameras, Ojo Oro; founder and producer of the new media arts, culture and technology festival, Afrotectopia.