24c3

December 27, 2007 3:16 PM

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress, "the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club is taking place in Berlin right now. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world." Lectures are also being streamed live (Check the CCC Tube)

Among other topics: Open Source, a capitalist movement. Free Software, Free Drugs and an ethics of death; Cyborg Feminism, The Arctic Cold War; Absurd Mathematics; Linguistic Hacking, How to know what a text in an unknown language is about? Quantum Cryptography and Possible Attacks; Freifunkerei, And a Do-It-Yourself society against the state; All Tomorrow's Condensation, A steampunk puppet extravaganza by monochrom and friends.

At 00:30 CET today you should be able to watch "I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can't fall in love…". The image of computers in popular music, presented by the Vienna art collective monochrom (linked above).
Recordings will also be made available to download in a few days time; here are last years 23c3 lectures.

posted by kolophon (4 comments total)

I've got a couple of friends who did a lecture at the one last year, that gathering is supercool.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:52 PM on December 27, 2007

was there last year too, it was really fun. What lecture did your friends hold? Perhaps I saw it.

A buddy of mine is talking about erlang tomorrow, perhaps I'll attend (if only by stream...)
posted by kolophon at 5:49 PM on December 27, 2007

was there last year too, it was really fun. What lecture did your friends hold? Perhaps I saw it.

Culture Jamming & Discordianism: Illegal Art & Religious Bricolage
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:32 PM on December 27, 2007

Looks like I've got at least one friend speaking there. Every con has its own flavor, I've always found CCC's emphasis on political & social activism intriguing.
posted by scalefree at 10:56 PM on December 27, 2007