Recorded Talks

The Interplanetary FileSystem provides a networked, distributed filesystem to retrieve files and folders among multiple parties without a central server.... See session description

Bret Victor posed an important question: over a long time horizon, what strategy for preserving information has been most successful?... See session description

Video presentation by Biyi Wen, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Channel channel, a network for VPN access. Channel Channel is a... See session description

As resistance to state control continues to grow, states are reacting by tightening the restrictions on the flow of information... See session description

CoBox is a project to enable p2p cloud infrastructures with different trust-settings. The project emphasises privacy by design and easy... See session description

If the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? Then why wonder how came... See session description

Nick Sweeting. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Benedict Lau. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Zack. Lightning talk on Day 3.

Felix Kaechele. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

Jim Pick. Lightning talk on Day 3.

idk. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

Technology has so fundamentally changed our society that any strategy for social change must be altered to address its power... See session description

A Digital Bundle Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online looks at ways to advance Indigenous Knowledge on the Internet through... See session description

Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

A sculpture is material form in real space, this is its most basic quality; a network is a form in... See session description

The following talk will address the recent calls for regulation of digital content on social media platforms alongside the digital... See session description

'Decentralization' has emerged as a rallying cry to build a web where control is delegated away from central authorities and... See session description

Vassilis Chryssos. Mesh lightning talk on Day 3.

This is a technical, artistic, theoretical reflection on how we use technology to run and experiment with decentralised festivals in... See session description

Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a... See session description

This paper proposes information technology (IT) infrastructure is formulating a universal language. It dips into historic efforts to create a... See session description

Video presentation by Farhad Bahram, accompanying the exhibited artwork: Made in Iran. Made in Iran is the outcome of several... See session description

Ryan Kelln. Lightning talk on Day 3.

The ongoing discussion about decentralisation has been dominated by the talk of blockchains lately. While they do work in certain... See session description

Althea is a protocol that allows people to easily buy and sell bandwidth from each other. The session will cover... See session description

The Internet as it exists today is not an ideal tool for liberation or the exploration of something new. The... See session description

The interdisciplinary creative practices of fandom — whether it be fanfiction, fanart, or cosplay — challenge our previously held notions... See session description

Formed in the wake of grassroots archiving efforts undertaken in 2017, Data Together seeks to contribute to a civic layer...

In this session, I will present how IPFS and HLS came together to allow us to build a distributed live...

A talk exploring the question is it possible to build/manage communal mesh infrastructure in a decentralized fashion and pay contributors... See session description

What does a 'stable' deployment of a community mesh network look like? During this session, we will look at successful... See session description

In this session, I will present Mesh Orange, a Debian-based router that runs on various single-board computers (SBCs), which together...

The philosophers have only interpreted the internet, the point is to change it. IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more... See session description

'Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter... See session description

Currently, most websites and apps depend on centralized servers despite the limitations of this structure. Migration towards P2P architectures may... See session description

As the internet evolves and changes, what material of the internet's past will continue to be available? What is being...

Wireless Toronto is a community wireless network run by volunteers, dedicated to the growth of no-cost wireless Internet access in... See session description