{"id":"d743f89d-684b-5a29-a0e1-4b788caa4255","kind":"official","name":"Coding Dissent: Art, Technology, and Tactical Media","slug":"coding-dissent-art-technology-and-tactical-media","url":"https://api.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/event/d743f89d-684b-5a29-a0e1-4b788caa4255/?format=json","track":"art-beauty","assembly":"ccc","room":"85a6ba5d-11d9-4efe-8d28-c5f7165a19ce","location":null,"language":"en","description":"In this talk, media artist and curator Helena Nikonole presents her work at the intersection of art, activism, and tactical technology — including interventions into surveillance systems, wearable mesh networks for off-grid communication, and AI-generated propaganda sabotage.\r\n\r\nFeaturing projects like Antiwar AI, the 868labs initiative, and the curatorial project Digital Resistance, the talk explores how art can do more than just comment on sociotechnical systems — it can interfere, infiltrate, and subvert them.\r\n\r\nThis is about prototypes as politics, networked interventions as civil disobedience, and media hacks as tools of strategic refusal. The talk asks: what happens when art stops decorating crisis and starts debugging it?\r\n\r\nThe talk will also introduce an upcoming HackLab initiative — a collaboration-in-progress that brings together artists, hackers, and activists to develop open-source tools for disruption, resilience, and collective agency — and invites potential collaborators to get involved.","schedule_start":"2025-12-27T23:00:00+01:00","schedule_duration":"00:40:00","schedule_end":"2025-12-27T23:40:00+01:00"}