Panel: Stunts & Dumps - The Making of a Viral Cause

Mustafa Al-Bassam (https://twitter.com/musalbas) (alias Tflow, former core member of LulzSec, UK), Jean Peters (https://twitter.com/jeangleur) (co-founder Peng! collective, DE), M. C. McGrath (https://twitter.com/shidash?lang=de) (founder of Transparency Toolkit, USA/DE), Andrea Natella (http://www.andreanatella.it) (former Luther Blissett conspirator, creative director of guerrigliamarketing.it and KOOK Artgency, IT). Moderated by Ruth Catlow (http://furtherfield.org/user/ruth-catlow) (co-founder of Furtherfield, UK). Following the thread of creating unexpected consequences in economical, social and political systems, this panel reflects on the practice of political stunts and data dumps by provoking intelligence disruptions, virality interventions and corporate hijacking. The panel brings together Tflow, former core member of LulzSec (Lulz Security), the computer hacker group responsible for several high profile attacks in early 2011 to corporations and governments (i.e. CIA and Sony Pictures); Jean Peters, co-founder of Peng! (https://www.pen.gg), the German collective known for intruding into business conferences, producing corporate fakes and pranks, as well as for their recent campaign "Intelexit" , an initiative that helps people leave the secret service; M. C. McGrath, founder of Transparency Toolkit (https://transparencytoolkit.org), a project that uses open data to map the intelligence community and uncover secret surveillance programs as well as investigates human rights abuses and find perpetrators; and, last but not least, Andrea Natella, former mythmaker of the Italian Luther Blissett Project, founder of Guerrigliamarketing.it, and creative director of KOOK Artgency (http://www.andreanatella.it/kook/), an unconventional agency specialised in designing and manufacturing viral, street and digital marketing. The panel is moderated by Ruth Catlow, co-founder of Furtherfield, an online community and distributed network active since the 1990s in UK and on the net, focused on digital arts, experimental poetry, critical texts, and anarchic creativity. Source: http://www.disruptionlab.org/stunts/ (http://www.disruptionlab.org/stunts/) Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com