During the workshop we will explore the contents of found hard-disks (hard-disque trouvé). Using methods borrowed from computer digital forensics participants will peek into the lives of others - former owners of scavenged hardware. Hard-disks as the most intimate part of any computer system. In case of a personal computer - the most intimate part of person's life. Deductively, we will try to discuss and recreate 'psyche' portraits of those strangers and restore the time-lines that otherwise would have faded away. In the times of paranoiac privacy awareness we forget that online is not the only place to loose your identity. Although more and more personal data is stored on the Internet servers it is still written to hard-disks. There were several reports about Internet server's hard-disks ending up on flea-markets, being sold for little money.

This workshop has been developed and held together with Danja Vasiliev

// WORKSHOPS

Why-fi wirelessness
Solarcells synthesizer
// Data carving
Social media hacking
DS Brut - Nintendo DS modifications
OS modifications
Protoytyping
Physical computing
CNC milling


2015
04/2015 Scratching the surface / ZhdK Zuerich / CH
02/2015 Data visualisation / Kunstuni Linz / AT

2014
05/2014 Unpleasant Design Workshop / LIWO Linz / AT

2013
08/2013 Urban Interaction Design / urbanIxD Summerschool / Split / HR
05/2013 Map Making City CPU / Goethe Institute / Athens / GR
02/2013 Unpleasant Design workshop / lift conference / Geneva / CH
01/2013 Social Media Tactics / web sciences @ Kepler University / Linz / AT

2012
11/2012 PureData / Zuercher Hochschule der Kuenste / zhdk / CH
10/2012 Tactical media / University of Salzburg / Salzburg / AT
09/2012 BOOTCAMP / HEAD Media Design Master / Geneva / CH
07/2012 Social media hacking / RMLL / Geneva / CH
03/2012 OS modification / weise7 / Berlin / DE

2011
12/2011 CMD Intro and Wirelessness / University of applied arts / Vienna / AT
11/2011 OS modification workshop / piksel festival / Bergen / NO
09/2011 OS modification workshop / Coded cultures festival / Vienna / AT
07/2011 SolarCellsButton / CellsButton festival / Yogyakarta / ID
07/2011 R.I.P Recycling Pervasive Media / BANFF / Banff / CA
06/2011 Breaking the Waves workshop / na.pravi.me festival / Belgrade / RS
03/2011 DIY artistic operating systems workshop / Escola de Comunicação / Rio de Janeiro / BR

2010
11/2010 Data Carving workshop / University of Holon / IL
11/2010 wifi-hacking workshop / Tel Aviv / IL
11/2010 web2.0 suicidemachine workshop / IMAL / Brussels / BE
10/2010 Media Hacking Workshop / Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Surubaya / ID
09/2010 Build, Break & Broadcast / Piet Zwart Institute / Rotterdam / NL
04/2010 Wireless Interventions / Aarhus University / Aarhus / DK
04/2010 Why-Fi Workshop / rev:space / Den Haag / NL
01/2010 CNC milling / happylab FABLAB / Vienna / AT

2009
11/2009 Data Carving / Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam / NL
11/2009 Data Carving / xxxxx Workshop / Berlin / DE
10/2009 Slowtronics / Willem de Kooning Academy / Rotterdam / NL
07/2009 Nintendo DS Game Workshop / Telefonica Lima / PE
06/2009 Build, Break & Broadcast / Piet Zwart Institute / Rotterdam / NL

2008
11/2008 Why-Fi Cracking Workshop / Worm / Rotterdam / NL
10/2008 8bit Electronics together with moddr_ / Art University / Arnhem / NL

2007
12/2007 Game Fashion Workshop / NABA University Fashion Institute / Milano / IT
11/2007 Digital Sound Workshop / resonance 2007 / Vienna / AT
11/2007 Ludic Society RFID Workshop / piksel Festival / Bergen / NO

2006
06/2006 ProTOYtyping Workshop / Design Academy / Konstanz / DE