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  "guid": "1f094de4-6b22-5484-9b43-9b51f2d40d11",
  "id": 722,
  "date": "2024-12-27T19:15:00+01:00",
  "start": "19:15",
  "duration": "00:40",
  "room": "Saal GLITCH",
  "slug": "38c3-dead-man-s-switch-an-art-shield-to-protect-the-life-of-julian-assange",
  "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/dead-man-s-switch-an-art-shield-to-protect-the-life-of-julian-assange/",
  "title": "Dead Man\u2019s Switch. An art shield to protect the life of Julian Assange",
  "subtitle": null,
  "language": "en",
  "track": "Art & Beauty",
  "type": "Talk",
  "abstract": "Artist Andrei Molodkin held $45million of art hostage to free Julian Assange. He vowed to dissolve Picasso, Rembrandt, Warhol and other masterpieces in acid using a dead man\u2019s switch device inside a 29-tonne Grade 5 Safe Room if Julian Assange was to die in prison. The talk will explain the process and methodology.",
  "description": "Dead Man\u2019s Switch is an art shield. It is not a human shield: that is what terrorists produce. Dead Man\u2019s Switch, on the contrary, is a tool for negotiation. \r\n\u201cTaking hostage\u201d is one of the most common languages used by the power structure. In his artistic career, Andrei Molodkin, developed the method of mirroring the language of power within the formal parameters of Political Minimalism. In the case of the Dead Man\u2019s Switch, the Medusa Gorgon mirror used to hit the power structure has been done by taking hostage the most important of capitalistic symbols, its icons and values. In this catastrophic time, to destroy art is much more taboo than to destroy the life of a person. Arianna Mondin, applied Interpol\u2019s criminal investigation method to the field of architecture in her PhD to unveil the connection between architecture and oil. She used this method in the development strategy of Dead Man\u2019s Switch.\r\nThe talk will focus on the process of realizing the Dead Man\u2019s Switch to mirror the language of power to release Julian Assange from prison. In particular, it will clarify the operation to involve artists and collectors in participating by donating their artworks to secure the survival of the most consequential political prisoner of our times. The project involved also specialists in security, negotiation, hardware and software, all together organised in a system aimed at reprogramming the power structure.\r\nThe talk will conclude by explaining the technical details, software and hardware, and the conceptualisation of the counter as a method of escalation and resetting the system.",
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  "persons": [
    {
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      "name": "Andrei Molodkin",
      "public_name": "Andrei Molodkin",
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      "biography": null,
      "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/user/speaker_ab007a0b-97c8-563e-8399-31fe5fd4cc89/"
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    {
      "guid": "2a81524c-3adb-5e50-b0a2-fc0ccc906f96",
      "name": "Arianna Mondin",
      "public_name": "Arianna Mondin",
      "avatar": "https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/media/avatars/FVQTWA_UaoFQU1.jpg",
      "biography": null,
      "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/user/speaker_2a81524c-3adb-5e50-b0a2-fc0ccc906f96/"
    }
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  "origin_url": "https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/XCLUY7/",
  "feedback_url": "https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/XCLUY7/feedback/"
}