Paolo Cirio on Legal, Economic, Cultural Systems of the Information society

In this 20 min keynote conceptual artist, hacktivist and cultural critic will demonstrate the critical role artists take in social activism - using tools of visual language to aid public understanding of legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society.

Paolo Cirio is known for having exposed over 200,000 Cayman Islands offshore firms with the work "Loophole for All" in 2013; the hacking of Facebook through publishing 1 million users on a dating website with "Face to Facebook" in 2011; the theft of 60,000 financial news articles with "Daily Paywall" in 2014 and of e-books from Amazon.com with "Amazon Noir" in 2006; defrauding Google with GWEI in 2005; and the obfuscation of 15 million U.S. criminal records with "Obscurity" in 2016; exposing over 20,000 patents of technology enabling social manipulation in 2018 with "Sociality" . Recently, in 2020, he pirated over 100,000 Sotheby’s auction records in "Derivatives" and he attempted to profile 4000 French police officers with facial recognition in "Capture". His early works include his cyber attacks against NATO and reporting on its military operations since 2001.

In this talk , we will explore through Paolo's art how uses of invasive technologies challenge the ethics of data, privacy policies, and violation of related civil liberties in the United States and Europe. And discuss the critical role artists take in social activism, using tools of visual language to aid public understanding of these complex issues and concepts.

About the Organisers

The event is organised in partnership with University College London, UK, Tartu University, Estonia, Jagiellonian University, Poland, Charles University, Czech Republic, and Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary). The event is the final conference of PopRebel, a European research project on neo-feudalism and neo-traditionalism. It is coordinated by Edgeryders OÜ - A non profit think-tank based in Estonia. We help groups and organizations to harness the power of collective intelligence for wiser, more effective ways to work together and make decisions.

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The event is free to attend. You register by clicking on the "register" button.

This event is part of Freedom Writ Large - A Conference On Assaults On Liberties In Europe And What We Can Do About It. More info: https://poprebel-impact.eu/

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682.