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• 0:00 On all the issues, the NSA, ASIO, federal police all this
• 0:06 thing coming up prism the word being used to describe the
• 0:11 taboo or the issue has been privacy and
• 0:15 at least since 2004 when I started putting myself
• 0:19 online in a way that was has now starting to be called
• 0:23 the quantified self basically I log almost eveything
• 0:26 I do to my blog and and other channels
• 0:30 privacy clearly wasn't even
• 0:33 a concern for me and I knew for my history
• 0:37 about surveillance industry and and dark times in our humanity
• 0:42 and my parents were warning me, 'aren't you concerned about your privacy'
• 0:46 I just wasn't concerned about our privacy nor was
• 0:49 anyone else I was associating with but
• 0:53 yet I have known about the prism and NSA
• 0:56 phenomenon now that's in the headline news reflecting on it
• 1:03 to me the more appropriate word to describe the
• 1:07 issue is power so
• 1:11 I'm going to be talking - as was introduced,
• 1:14 a question about power. Individual power
• 1:20 institutional power corporate power, state power
• 1:23 and at the end suggest -
• 1:27 as I always suggest if anyone knows but I ramble on about
• 1:30 to the university's particularly, fundamentally rethink
• 1:35 your position in this vastly changing
• 1:39 quickly changing power dynamic
• 1:44 I still at this moment in time
• 1:47hold on to my romantic notion at the University that first paragraph
• 1:51so I work in universities I I try to extract meaning and purpose I love life
• 1:57and a justification for work in universities on that
• 2:01principal but at this point in time 37 years old
• 2:05I feel the cynicism cladding around me and actually the second paragraph is the
• 2:10reality
• 2:11when I think about the excellence in research Australia performance measures
• 2:15and why that's implemented by central management
• 2:17I think about our performance indicators and house stuff
• 2:20dealt with I and
• 2:24I think about specially Latrobe University the legacy
• 2:28of I arts and humanities
• 2:31that was for it might look for once famous is
• 2:34almost no longer to be seen and the same thing playing out in the UK
• 2:38in the US and things like that I'm increasingly seeing the University
• 2:44as a place on earth oppressive power
• 2:47of but sickly through
• 2:51an OSHA I think older and at the University of Oklahoma I think
• 2:55Susan over is John Susan or rewrite a paper in the early nineties forecasting
• 2:59this phenomenon
• 3:00and I talked a lot academic capitalism making the invisible hand
• 3:04visible just a small paper that really haven't forgotten it since reading its
• 3:08by referencing I'm Smith economic models about his
• 3:12invisible hands but also positing thats
• 3:15the University as business and be held to mark its fun I'm forces
• 3:22has been a radical shift in the way universities operate but a quiet month
• 3:26the learning has been allowed one and yet we haven't got much
• 3:29much traction on the whole thing has been other so-called revolutions and you
• 3:33know it makes another one
• 3:34for it cycle revolutions in the sector have been loud and obnoxious and that
• 3:39everything that this quiet ones that are going on and
• 3:43icons personally find myself getting any traction with central management
• 3:47to confront this issue of the university is business and how for me at least in
• 3:52certain everyone I know
• 3:53has fundamentally eroded the thing that I would sell
• 3:56the university as if investors use that language I'm not going to advice by
• 4:01family and friends to acquire sixty thousand dollar debt
• 4:04to study something that's questionable so dumb
• 4:07das a as power and the question then is
• 4:13after three questions who can see South
• 4:17I can we see and
• 4:21let me see the first two questions and then these third one is
• 4:25a demand and you might have heard in my Tom
• 4:29confrontational questions at other peoples presentation up path
• 4:33or suggesting opened our turn individual control
• 4:36on their own daughter those three icons you must not hell 9000
• 4:41and the artificial intelligence and the horror that's our
• 4:45is forecast for us for that on the right maybe you don't know about the Watchmen
• 4:49the slogan
• 4:50the graphic novel The Watchmen its and the slogan the cousins who watches the
• 4:53watchmen
• 4:55I made into a movie recently and in the middle the icon for
• 4:59the I am loosely affiliated group Anonymous
• 5:03so if I russia today ran an interesting
• 5:07month YouTube video
• 5:10on the running on the back of PRISM NNSA
• 5:15and that was the title to their earth to their own article
• 5:19facie universities as a kind of a big brother watching thing with that with
• 5:24their
• 5:24what we would call as buyers lining analytics
• 5:29the 1i was good a question about a story that's a I really consul widens my eyes
• 5:33quite severely
• 5:34at I had the every other university impolitic never work for these are the
• 5:38first thing I do is try in lobby fourth
• 5:41the University wireless network to made a free community hotspot
• 5:45in multiple places and is perplexing to me this year this this hotel offers
• 5:49complimentary wireless so Wellington Airport serves them
• 5:52complimentary well as many many hotels fact Packers in fact
• 5:56I can go pretty much across the entire country of Thailand and beyond
• 5:59complimentary WiFi wifi
• 6:01and yes at the University we don't see the virtue in making it available for to
• 6:05the public
• 6:06not just on campus but in many other notes
• 6:09I mean in a marketing sense a line it would be a good thing to have have
• 6:12people landing on a splash page getting the latest
• 6:14information from University before they sorta checking their email address and
• 6:18giving a sec
• 6:19contact and then make enjoy the free wireless
• 6:22anyway every university ever suggested that naturally
• 6:26from I find myself talking to the chief information officer and
• 6:29earth fear not uncertainty and doubt is what forced from their mouths
• 6:34and he said to me explain to me
• 6:37that on it the primary provider for the network in universities require
• 6:42authentication for people joining the network
• 6:46so when to wait a few friends I knew and he knew the terms and policies bonnet
• 6:50which by the way are not readily available as far as I can tell
• 6:53and up vice said actually
• 6:56the university's overzealous in interpreting that terms conditions
• 7:00we don't need identify fourth indication we just needs people
• 7:03we just need an idea of how many people are going on and what am I started
• 7:06downloading
• 7:07maybe not even what sadat hopefully not so what about a
• 7:10as the university's the required identified authentication
• 7:14who that person is slowing onto the system
• 7:17so I came back and confronted the damn the information officer
• 7:21and I don't remember his response to that maybe he'd
• 7:25damn maybe he just inherited that legacy of interpreting the the terms conditions
• 7:28that way I never read them
• 7:29himself ok or question them but he let something go
• 7:33which is why I'm really tell me a story about the Federal Police
• 7:38according to this man requests
• 7:41daughter on individuals on average
• 7:45individual to university network users on average five times
• 7:48a month it's a small university
• 7:52without warrant they requested and without warranty University gives the
• 7:56information
• 7:57what the chief information officer was concerned about is there are now laws in
• 8:01place
• 8:02to protect his stuff who then conduct
• 8:05the data extraction delivery by handling information they're exposed
• 8:09that's what he was concerned about I thought that was a rather interesting
• 8:12thing to be concerned about
• 8:14I'm actually interested about the human rights right there civil rights
• 8:18and the legacy of the University being a place academic freedom knows as a
• 8:23of course child pornography and all those things that the federal police are
• 8:26operating on
• 8:27Mesa be uncovered and dealt with brunch absolutely certain that they rock
• 8:31more operation areas which are not so
• 8:34I'm positive terrorism four-month
• 8:38so by virtue of their federal police line sister agencies Isaiah
• 8:43Nash the US agencies UK and c6 extra
• 8:46there's a same lists warrantless transaction of identifiable information
• 8:51for people who use University networks the exposure is there
• 8:55universities present no terms and conditions to individuals who
• 8:58sign up to be students or staff that makes this
• 9:01phenomenon parent it's a climb I'm not pursue it
• 9:05just make it known here this former truth hope is appropriate
• 9:09for us so that's a trying to expose some %uh the
• 9:13rather serious power dynamics I think that our play and you obviously know
• 9:17where I sit on that thing and I think we are entering into a period of class
• 9:20warfare
• 9:20and I don't think the universities are on the right site so
• 9:24don't be fooled this next us line a slide
• 9:27tin can a POIs the latest thing for the landing at LAX far as I can tell
• 9:33and in the graphics like most other rhetoric coming from university sector
• 9:37the liner is Central's but not really the liner is central in terms of all
• 9:41lead author everything they do the YouTube videos they watched low price
• 9:44watch the put the lock on Facebook
• 9:46all that is central and then it has these one directional flow
• 9:50to was the University it will then interpret the data
• 9:53it could be amazing tool for Alana
• 9:57to develop self-awareness self-awareness on the courses they may or may not be
• 10:01selecting
• 10:02based on the bike is on the internet would be a a small
• 10:06by the interesting at least I'm
• 10:09I'm presentation data from a diff cam or any other lender to become
• 10:13a little bits of where the decisions and what they're doing
• 10:16that's why was excited about ducks work being that talkative to where I can see
• 10:20how I
• 10:21well my yousef the not only the long-term interests isn't the internet
• 10:24generally
• 10:25how I'm tracking towards trends according to trends
• 10:29generally and I could just maybe not so maybe modify my behavior towards that
• 10:35so I hope I'll is through this talk
• 10:40that's of we allowed to go back
• 10:43that was just pause and think about the flow of power going on here
• 10:48and question that romantic notion of the university that may be actually
• 10:52certainly sustaining me in this sort of work and how I get meaning
• 10:56question that's try from a difference effective
• 10:59what if the university's an instrument of power over pressure
• 11:02of oppressive power what is more more people see that
• 11:05packed we put in policies and procedures that prevent that hopefully
• 11:10I and what would necessarily change and will be lose out by doing it slightly
• 11:14differently
• 11:17alright so the next part of the three passes can we can see
• 11:20christa so I'm a visual arts I'm graduates
• 11:24I spent six years drawing naked people and wondering about pencils and pens and
• 11:28things like that
• 11:29its but one single lecture series called analysis the visual image
• 11:33in in the University of Newcastle course to final enough I don't think that
• 11:37subject exists anymore because is not market demand for
• 11:40something that has no vocational education
• 11:43analysis is visual image I looking at semiotics and the question an allusion
• 11:47and the things about
• 11:49how I propagandist marketeers manipulate
• 11:53those allusions to have ASEAN think something %uh that we aren't actually
• 11:57saying
• 11:58there's a really nice graphic novel called understanding comics that unpack
• 12:01some of this some other things that really struck me
• 12:04is this particular three friends
• 12:07I it starts off I think it draws a circle any parts and me ask you what you
• 12:11see
• 12:12CS circles with a DOS and I want to see I see an orange
• 12:17puts two dots I see a face before putting nizar line in fact it looks
• 12:21nothing at all like a face
• 12:23but at this point you can't see anything other than a face
• 12:27and yet it's a circle with two dots on the line
• 12:30and we struggle even to see the medium and distance this week and it is said
• 12:34if I did it on the whiteboard the privacy of ice long before he sought
• 12:38it was forget the chemical that the methanol chemical that
• 12:41is used the color maybe not going to NC or five times a day with
• 12:45oil or for painting acrylic you might notice all those features for your subs
• 12:50your brain is hard-wired to see face now that some obvious one but there's so
• 12:53many allusions
• 12:55in that we can play out and months basically what I'm saying
• 12:58is that they would be so many allusions in data
• 13:01that I don't think people managing data even interpreting it
• 13:05I very well trying to see I don't think anyone is
• 13:10but this is an age-old dilemma the blind man holding elephant
• 13:15many ways if of telling the story the 1i like particularly
• 13:19is there are three scientists blind scientists
• 13:22not visually blind mentally blind scientists you never know that he was
• 13:26going to in a dark room
• 13:28one is so it lets essays to one is holding tile
• 13:31of an elephant the other one is holding a the trunk and I agree they held a
• 13:35snake
• 13:37that's just a little I'm a story that
• 13:41links to month I'm
• 13:44Ste a philosophy of thinking from India or Central Asia
• 13:48some 500 be I'm years before Christ
• 13:52its alright so from the visual arts training that particular subjects
• 13:57XYZ this reading this which I'm really move past and personal life
• 14:01we actually done see we can see we think we can see
• 14:04but this just illusions this is nothing new for those who employ
• 14:08first floor list all those extinct subjects of Humanities
• 14:12but this is my reading this who I think would relate very much William Evans the
• 14:15prince and princess
• 14:16visual communications talks about the technological advances
• 14:20of print or the reproducible image
• 14:24and how that has changed fundamentally how scientific understanding of things
• 14:28illustrations of plans going from would flop on a face to and flying on a
• 14:32woodblock
• 14:33and being able to get more detail on their fourth thing out to describe
• 14:36things like
• 14:37hair follicles on a leaf and things like that fundamentally change those who are
• 14:40learning something
• 14:41for representation or maybe around the actual object
• 14:45and with %ah so that's what we're doing Jon Burge's ways of saying
• 14:50houses and some tags on photography I
• 14:55I want to explain it to them but if I could to
• 14:59press those that would be one I've already mentioned Adam Curtis is all
• 15:02watched over by machines of loving grace and that's probably the most present
• 15:05presently relevant one looking at stuff financial and economic data
• 15:09giving us a false picture all of that so that banks and lenders could make risk
• 15:14more risk that was back when I was i sayin years old and suddenly they'll
• 15:17give me a critic on the phone on finance and another credit card nothing
• 15:21the world is going to come to an end in 10 with 10 years for sure
• 15:24and sure enough the economic crisis came about because that couldn't be faith
• 15:28and the three peaks for verdure down the central building stirred to the way up
• 15:33do with that alright
• 15:36so the demand that the end is let me see
• 15:40so if the universities were Eva press to a spice
• 15:45and if our people like me with a hold on that dramatic National University in
• 15:49fact
• 15:49we have no option but to hold on to that because there's no other place where
• 15:53the power play might be balanced but the university's first must fundamentally
• 15:57change the way they do things
• 15:59personally I'm looking to work for and send my children to
• 16:03a University of open da to open governance and the democratic process
• 16:08a fight remarkable that the two pinnacles avail civilization western
• 16:11culture and civilization
• 16:13one is I'm democracy keeping your sanity check on true success trip up la
• 16:20and the University thing I've cultural pinnacle knowledge except rap
• 16:23and yet one has no democratic process whatsoever that I can think of
• 16:27Stephen the peer review process I would say so
• 16:31a University of open data in our case would have to be identified a cantata
• 16:36so that a I can make the same analysis as any other university
• 16:40Makati or anyone else would be making on my behalf
• 16:45that their decisions I were openly accessible rooms to consider
• 16:49and that their democratic process now I can't think of one
• 16:52brought a large organization in fact probably more relevant than the
• 16:55university sector
• 16:57that operates in this not flawless definitely not flawless
• 17:00Wikimedia Foundation the group that run Wikipedia and all the other reference
• 17:04text
• 17:05run on these principles and I find it remarkable
• 17:08that all universities I worked at hundreds of academic so when faced with
• 17:12teaching them how to use the internet
• 17:14not one has ever editing Wikipedia
• 17:20alright so if those principles and probably others that could be applied
• 17:23could be made prevalent in the university sector
• 17:27fanned out hope that they be guided by wave -ism as a social movement
• 17:32wave -ism as in socialism is in feminism
• 17:35I don't know if it's the %uh put a Google search in its only one article
• 17:38that actually claims weight is a massage with a bit
• 17:41is quite interesting and I counter part by Empire party
• 17:45WikiLeaks open da open government is or cultural phenomenons that I think a
• 17:50present in the idea
• 17:51wave -ism and a completely absent from the university sector
• 17:56and then going way back means a production is really what I'm talking
• 17:59about
• 18:00and author is a means of production but more
• 18:04I morons eloquent I think then that mocks
• 18:09is if I millich who's famous but the school in society
• 18:12but I think you should be more famous for his tools of conviviality
• 18:15which gives us a frame to get a look at the tools that we construct
• 18:19is the system's the processes and little tools like computers and data systems et
• 18:23cetera
• 18:24and conviviality being a tool tool for developing a tool
• 18:28that celebrates human to human react relations
• 18:32I have family relations small community relations
• 18:36and actually actively works against the constructive institutions in large
• 18:40groups
• 18:41that would love by and large have an impact an adverse impact
• 18:45on those computer your ID is a few minutes
• 18:49and then for examples here now the core project
• 18:52as a way to hide I your identity or obscure your identity when using the
• 18:57internet
• 18:57if you up from presence in mind about this power dynamic that's taking place
• 19:03the freedom box is a project that as is interesting and watch it but I haven't
• 19:06seen any movement since 2010's announcement
• 19:09but as individual service basically takes a
• 19:13the deserts distributed p2p network idea
• 19:16have anyway I can't explain it and its no way is it probably adequate
• 19:21if you take bit torrent technology which is how the park by many others run
• 19:26its your computer has the the the text both the software or the park video
• 19:30legitimate video on that
• 19:32on your computer my computer has it and when you want to copy of that
• 19:36both acted as back thousands and fuel to the fire with liver is peer to peer
• 19:39deliver the file
• 19:42the why the internet primarily works at the moment now though
• 19:45is if you wanna share me that video you upload it to YouTube
• 19:48I got you choose and download that thing giving you choose an immense amount of
• 19:51power
• 19:52of and others who have access to you to Tara
• 19:55so the freedom box is basically putting social media
• 19:59interactions communications back to that PSP amoral
• 20:03so your computer primarily becomes a server where your photos are
• 20:07and if you're connected your photos are available if they're not their offline
• 20:12but there isn't that an immediate ruling the middle
• 20:15and then a key for Windows since 1995
• 20:18you think I'm bad you should hear Richard Richard Stallman talk on free
• 20:22software
• 20:23but I think these principles on the lawn what he's talking about some
• 20:27I am and I think they would be very interesting
• 20:30from somebody who's more eloquent in bed is bigger than I am a thinker than I am
• 20:33to be able to take what his centrally what he's saying which actually connects
• 20:36to historical thing socially
• 20:39I and apply them in this very challenging context have
• 20:42rationalize business sized university sector where the humanity that is
• 20:47is gone South
• 20:51what I mean to say with is it's not about privacy
• 20:54it's about power reflect on the university's a palace but I space have
• 20:58power
• 20:59and then maybe consider what we're building
• 21:03what we're feeding into verse let them out iron inadequacies
• 21:08we are so inadequate compared to the system's a behind in what they're
• 21:12plugged into in fact we're being manipulated by them
• 21:14its and maybe consider the university sector
• 21:18as a one of the last remaining possibly spices up before the state

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1. ↑ Scott McCloud 1993. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. P23