hackmeetings
Hackmeetings were first held in Italy, 1998. Digital communication and counter-culture meetings where hackers want to find a way out of the computer world. These are meetings held along a whole weekend by the Self-managed Social Centers (in Italian Centro Sociale Ocupato Autogestito). In the meetings handouts and presentation papers disappear, new nodes are proposed, nets with techno-politic dimensions, telematics, hacking and cyberspace are created with the goal of managing the sessions in cooperation and autonomously.
Different people in Spain from different points of the net thought about organizing a hackmeeting in 2000. Following the wake of the Italian one it should be flexible, open and free. From then on, Barna Les Naus (2000) in CSOA, Leioa Udondo Gaztetxe (2001) and Madrid Labo 03 (2002) have been held. In 2003, a hackmeeting known as HACK3ÑA was held in Iruñea.
These hackmeetings are just a excuse to discuss the use of technology. Therefore, intellectual ownership, free software, wireless net, hacking and so on can be dealt upon in an unbeatable atmosphere, while at the same time, the chance is offered for spreading knowledge, sharing skills and creating new sites.
"Hacking your mind/ Using your Head" was last year’s motto and, in a free and experimental way, they wanted to create a social, telematic and technopolitical place from HM hacktivism or “reality hacking”: with the passion of overriding borders, recreating and managing social and space codes.
What HM coordinators and leaders need is fulfilled with talks, discussions, workshops, exhibitions and meetings. HM-s here are held in youth squats. These places are transformed and adorned with technology and human resources for experimenting and exchange. But leaving aside the hacker = elite controversy of hacking = non-politics and gaztetxea = anti-technology.
Topics dealt with are: defense against copyright, selfmanaged town net wireless, telematics and alternative counter-information, autonomous servers, free software, video, hacktivism, governments in the net: LSSI, cyber-crime laws, infopol..., corporations in the net: copyright, patents, spying..., news on education and technology, cyberpunk, internet and social movements, hacker philosophy, privacy, cryptography, anonimousity, hacklab-s, preaking, viruses, artificial intelligence... and whatever you may have in your head!!
Spread the use of technology.
Different people in Spain from different points of the net thought about organizing a hackmeeting in 2000. Following the wake of the Italian one it should be flexible, open and free. From then on, Barna Les Naus (2000) in CSOA, Leioa Udondo Gaztetxe (2001) and Madrid Labo 03 (2002) have been held. In 2003, a hackmeeting known as HACK3ÑA was held in Iruñea.
These hackmeetings are just a excuse to discuss the use of technology. Therefore, intellectual ownership, free software, wireless net, hacking and so on can be dealt upon in an unbeatable atmosphere, while at the same time, the chance is offered for spreading knowledge, sharing skills and creating new sites.
"Hacking your mind/ Using your Head" was last year’s motto and, in a free and experimental way, they wanted to create a social, telematic and technopolitical place from HM hacktivism or “reality hacking”: with the passion of overriding borders, recreating and managing social and space codes.
What HM coordinators and leaders need is fulfilled with talks, discussions, workshops, exhibitions and meetings. HM-s here are held in youth squats. These places are transformed and adorned with technology and human resources for experimenting and exchange. But leaving aside the hacker = elite controversy of hacking = non-politics and gaztetxea = anti-technology.
Topics dealt with are: defense against copyright, selfmanaged town net wireless, telematics and alternative counter-information, autonomous servers, free software, video, hacktivism, governments in the net: LSSI, cyber-crime laws, infopol..., corporations in the net: copyright, patents, spying..., news on education and technology, cyberpunk, internet and social movements, hacker philosophy, privacy, cryptography, anonimousity, hacklab-s, preaking, viruses, artificial intelligence... and whatever you may have in your head!!
Spread the use of technology.
