From the techniques employed to bring local governments onboard with open data, to developing self-run web tools and networks, to peer-based financial systems this special edition of Urban Knights focuses on governance and user-developer power relationships within decentralised systems for urban and civic living.

A conversation between Appelbaum, Paglen and Poitras reflecting on the new frontiers of information disclosure

What does blackening out mean in the context of urban screens and what goes lost after the sudden shut-down and restart? How to find ways to restore or rethink information after this severe blackout? – a panel discussion with the CC artists, curators and the transmediale visitors.

Big data is the digital trash of our everyday life: the little snippets of useless data that accumulate to constitute data sets of unforeseen value. | Presented in cooperation with Motherboard.

Disclosing the invisible data and information underneath biological science, scientific laboratory research and our body.

The event asks how to formulate research questions, research methods, and research dissemination under post-digital conditions. How does the post-digital become a research topic? 

Baruch Gottlieb and the transmediale 2014 residency artists Jamie Allen and David Gauthier will analyse the artists’ understanding of “infrastructure critique” attempting to elaborate the connections with and departures from McLuhan’s concept of “Media.”

On the effects of electronic and synthetic waste on geological and biological bodies

Ryan Bishop in conversation with the artist Trevor Paglen, including an introduction to his work.

How the virtue ethics of cypherpunk, whistle-blowing and investigative journalism are evolving into a hybrid form of civic resistance.

Explore technology’s impact on everyday life via the seducing imagination of the possible