[spectre] Investigating the Kill Cloud - 10 Year Disruption Network Lab - Nov 29-30 / Dec 1

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear Spectre List,

I would like to invite you to our 34th conference at Kunstquartier 
Bethanien in Berlin: INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD: Information Warfare, 
Autonomous Weapons & AI.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud

I curated this conference in collaboration with Jutta Weber (Professor 
for Media, Culture & Society at Paderborn University). It is also a very 
important event for us as it marks the 10 year anniversary of the 
Disruption Network Lab.

The concept of the 'Kill Cloud' describes a new paradigm of networked 
warfare that is not limited to the analysis of direct military actions. 
The conference INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD deals with the full scope of 
this type of warfare - from AI-based facial recognition and 
targeted-killing, to the entanglement of private advertising industries 
and social media with the war machinery, to automated unmanned aerial 
vehicle attacks.

The four fellows of the new Disruption Network Institute - Lisa Ling, 
Naomi Colvin, Joana Moll and Jack Poulson - are bringing transparency to 
the complexity and opacity of networked warfare with their 15-month 
research projects. Their research will be published on 28 November here: 
https://disruption.institute/ - and presented at the conference.

Their presentations and lecture performance will be complemented by 
talks from experts such as Thomas Drake (NSA whistleblower), Jesselyn 
Radack (Whistleblower and Source Protection Program WHISPeR), Sophia 
Goodfriend (+972 Magazine), Matt Mahmoudi (Amnesty Tech) and many more.

If you are interested in taking part, you can join us this weekend 
(tickets are available online) or watch us live and ask questions to our 
speakers via an online chat.

## Programme

## Friday, November 29, 2024

16:15–16:25 · OPENING
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic 
Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).

16:25–17:00 · INTRO · Whistleblowing in Data-Centric Warfare
Jesselyn Radack (Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program 
WHISPeR at ExposeFacts, US), Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior 
Executive at the National Security Agency, US).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#whistleblowing

17:00–17:45 · LECTURE PERFORMANCE · The User and the Beast
Joana Moll (Artist & Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media 
Arts Cologne, ES/DE). 
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#the-user

18:15–20:30 · KEYNOTE · Investigating the Kill Cloud
Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US 
Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Jack Poulson (Executive 
Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and 
UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), 
Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of 
Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, 
Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, 
IT/DE).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#keynote

## Saturday, November 30, 2024

14:00–14:15 · OPENING
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic 
Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Jutta Weber (Professor for 
Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University, DE).

14:15–16:45 · PANEL · Disarming the Kill Cloud
Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK/CA), Erik 
Reichborn-Kjennerud (Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of 
International Affairs, NO), Elke Schwarz (Associate Professor, Queen 
Mary University London, UK), Marijn Hoijtink (Associate Professor in 
International Relations, Principle Investigator PLATFORM WARS, 
University of Antwerp, NL/BE). Moderated by Jutta Weber (Professor for 
Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University , DE).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#disarming

17:15–18:00 · CONVERSATION · Visualising Threat
Shona Illingworth (Artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media, 
University of Kent, DK/UK), Anthony Downey (Professor of Visual Culture 
in the Middle East and North Africa, Birmingham City University, UK).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#visualising

18:30–20:30 · PANEL · Automated Surveillance & Targeted Killing in Gaza
Matt Mahmoudi (Researcher & Advisor on AI & Human Rights at Amnesty 
Tech/Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at Uni. of Cambridge, 
DK/IR/UK), Sophia Goodfriend (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy 
School’s Middle East Initiative, Journalist, +972 Magazine, IL), Khalil 
Dewan (PhD Nomos Fellow in Law at SOAS University of London, UK). 
Moderated by Matthias Monroy (Editor of the German civil rights journal 
Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag, DE).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#gaza

## Sunday, December 1, 2024

12:00–16:00 · ROUNDTABLE · Unfolding the Kill Cloud (not streamed)
This roundtable, organised brings together speakers and experts in the 
field of information technology, AI and warfare to contribute 
specifically to the debate on data-centric warfare and its impact on 
civil society.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#roundtable

More information:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud#intro

TICKETS: https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/

-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
https://www.disruptionlab.org/
E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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