# OBFUSCATION

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Dans le cadre de https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/
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## Documentation en cours
https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/exhibition/opening-vernissage





## Notes échanges - preparation Ws
* https://www.nicovideo.jp/
* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0163443716643007
* https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/trap-door
* http://carmenkynard.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/No-Humans-Involved-An-Open-Letter-to-My-Colleagues-by-SYLVIA-WYNTER.pdf
* https://renitentia.mur.at/obfuscating.html
* https://soundcloud.com/wkcr
* https://soundcloud.com/wkcr/mourning-good
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Burn%2C-dream-and-reboot!%3A-speculating-backwards-for-Pritchard-Snodgrass/560f599d69b1721a46493847b660e11cf6843d10
* https://etherpad.mur.at/p/podcasting
* https://americanassembly.org/we-be-imagining
* "tech is a type of friction even when it is frictionless"
* Some points about "right to be forgotten" feel related to efforts on "machine unlearning," e.g., https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7163042 or https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03817
## reflexions en //
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_and_Novel
* chronotope is the space-time part, what we are looking for is resonating with the invisible, making our bodies-antennas receiver and transmitter, opium makes the sensitive open to chimis and common pleasure
* http://findarticles.com/?noadc=1
* Question a poser : Do you use Deobfuscation ? https://assiste.com/Deobfuscation.html
* https://membean.com/wrotds/ob-against
* https://www.etymonline.com/word/obfuscate
* https://www.etymonline.com/word/obfuscation
* The crowd problem
* https://www.cnet.com/news/teens-have-figured-out-how-to-mess-with-instagrams-tracking-algorithm/
* https://firstmonday.org/article/view/3493/2955
* https://index.nadine.be/4th-wab-wab-meeting-11/
* https://0xacab.org/kippleface/footfall-amulets

### poster and improvisation

* auto-podcast : julbel.free.fr/OBS.mp3

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## Informations

### second session Thursday

**TL;DR: second session Thursday, May 6 at 17:30 UTC.
Prerequisites: having watched the pre-recorded videos AKA "obfuscated talks" available on the platframe: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/exhibition**

Heads up! Our second session will take place today/tomorrow (depending on your time zone) Thursday, May 6 at 17:30 UTC.
See the corresponding time in your time zone on our platframe, here: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/study-room/session-2-preparation-for-workshop

In this second session, we will do a round to talk about the pre-recorded videos, artworks and posters that we've unveiled at the vernissage and comment on the feedback you've already received on your work. If you haven't yet, please take a moment to watch the videos from our invited speakers, which are still available at the exhibition area. These videos will serve as the basis for the second part of the session, where we will break into smaller groups to engage engage more deeply with the invited sessions that will take place on Friday. That is why it is very important that you watch the talks in advance.

Moreover, Khadijah Abdurahman and Reni Hofmüller will be holding a podcasting workshop, of which you can read a short description here:

> Recording whether for a podcast, radio show or remix is seen as the event or temporally the moment at which "things happen". However, that event is predicated on technical and human infrastructures that begin before recording. These infrastructures (the labor, the tools and relational infrastructure) are obscured to the listener who is only interacting with the end product. However, making visible the tech stack, the process of preparing for the interview or moment of recording and finally the process of archiving produces an opportunity for political intervention. It allows makers of all kinds to consider producing and listening to sound otherwise. Reni and Khadijah will share soundscapes they've produced as opening provocations. Then they will share their tech stack and making process including the current limitations and possibilities of existing open source approaches.

We plan to loosely structure Thursday's session as follows (UTC time):
17:30 || Introduction to the Obfuscation Workshop Study Group, including:
Round of introductions
Organisation of groups and tasks
Q&A
18:30 || Break
19:00 || Breakout groups -- Khadija & Reni's podcasting workshop
20:00 || Regroup
20:30 || 2nd session ends

We will meet on the same BBB room as last week, here: https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/3rd-pvb-xah-r8w
The access code is: 261137. Please do not share this code further.
The room is already open and you can visit it to test sound at any time.

### Hi everyone!

Thank you for joining the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation's study group! We are looking forward to meeting you. The objective of the SG is to create a community during COVID times, get to know and work with each other, and also to collaborate on a postscript of the Workshop on Obfuscation. You can find more details about our goals and the study group mentors on our platframe, here: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/study-room

Our first session will take place this Friday, April 30 at 16:00 UTC (see calendar invite attached). You can also see the corresponding time in your time zone on our platframe.

In this first session, we will do a round of introductions and organize sessions for you to introduce your obfuscation work. To that end, we would like to remind you to bring a poster. You may find useful guidelines on how to prepare a poster here: https://guides.nyu.edu/posters. Note that this is only a suggestion: you may propose other one-page/one-slide digital formats. Please note that posters will be published on a dedicated region in our platframe and potentially included in the workshop’s postscript.

We plan to loosely structure Friday's session as follows (UTC time):
16:00 || Introduction to the Obfuscation Workshop Study Group, including:
Round of introductions
Organisation of groups and tasks
Q&A
17:30 || Break
18:00 || Break-out into smaller groups (participants present their work using posters to be exhibited)
18:45 || Regroup
19:00 || 1st session ends

To hold this session, we will use a BigBlueButton room, which you can access at the following url: https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/3rd-pvb-xah-r8w
You will also need the following access code to join the room: **261137**. Please do not share this code further.
The room is already open. We strongly encourage you to visit it and test BBB ahead of Friday. We have attached a short manual for your convenience. If you encounter any difficulties connecting, please do get in touch with us asap.

Moreover, we would like you to invite you to familiarize yourself with the platframe.
To do so, we encourage you to take our "guided tour": https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/readme/tour

We also encourage you to submit any terms relevant to your work and practice at the workshop's glossary: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/glossary

Lastly, we would like you to take a few minutes to carefully read our Code of Conduct: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/reception/code-of-conduct

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

## Proposition

What should our imaginations be used for? What kinds of worlds and relationships should they help to bring?

In December 2019, the Defence Innovation Agency (AID) launched a public call to form a Red Team for the French army. On the website of the Ministry of Defence, we can read that its "mission is to imagine and create futuristic and disruptive scenarios for the benefit of defence innovation". The Red Team (in English in the text) will be constituted of futurists and science fiction authors.

Foresight firms and groups are flourishing to offer their services to government agencies or multinationals. Large companies such as Google or Thales were the first to call on futurists as a mean of envisaging, but above all of shaping the future through powerful imaginaries. We can take the example of Imprudence, a "creation and foresight studio" among others, which imagines new futures for L'Oréal, Disney, Dior, Celio, Total or Pernod Ricard. This collective of "planners, designers, creative technologists, futurists and storytellers" produces glossy worlds, full of augmented reality and virtual universes designed to shape bodies and desires. And in small characters, they precise ''desirable futures for their partners/clients''

The imaginary is therefore a colony of control societies, the place where technological advances are thought, like drones, facial recognition, robotics, home automation, data recording, cybernetic prostheses, or sensors of all kinds, in order to push for the progress and the growth. Technologies of surveillance, and the binary distinction between menace and protection, evil and good are phenomenal arguments to keep people and peoples under pressure, to create an atmosphere (atmosfear) of suspicion.

The Chronotopium experiment is an invitation to constitute kinships capable of overcoming the famous ''wall of the imagination'' mentioned by Emmanuel Chiva, the director of the Defence Innovation Agency (AID). To learn together to dream in the midst of trouble, and to make our dreams transform reality. After all, we agree on something : the imaginary is part of the real, has concrete consequences on it.

Chronotopium will be a club for the practice of the imaginary. The idea is to think about the imagination ability as a muscle to build up as if we were going in a fitness club. It is about putting in place practices of care and kinship, as well as poetic guerilla warfare, in order to help social and political struggles.

Chronotopium will be a space-time for play, a place to develop resistance, a point from which to spread our imaginations into the real. There, we will weave narratives, embroider them with a thousand sequins, ransack the language to extract fluids that will irrigate and foster tangible worlds.

Following this proposition we launched the club Chronotopium with some inhabitants of the zad (zone to defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, North of Nantes in France. Our proposition for the Obfuscation Workshop's intervention is about this first experience and its future implications, in order to discuss the possibility of an autonomous imaginary and its political and social issues.