Julian Oliver
Critical Engineer & artist
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His workand lectures have been presented at many museums, galleries, internationalelectronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale,the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media ArtsFestival. Julian has received several awards, most notably the distinguishedGolden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with DaniilVasiliev). He is the co-author of the Critical Engineering Manifesto andco-founder of Crypto Party in Berlin, who’s shared studio Weise7 hosted the firstthree crypto-parties worldwide. He is also the co-founder of BLACKLIST, a screening and panel series focused on the primary existential threats of our time.
Julian has also given numerous workshops and master classes in data forensics,creative hacking, computer networking, counter-surveillance, software art,object-oriented programming, radio, UNIX/Linux, (and previously) augmented reality, virtual architecture, video-game development and information visualisation worldwide. He is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software andis a supporter of, and contributor to, initiatives that reinforce rights ofprivacy and anonymity in networked and non-networked domains. He has often donated his experience in these areas to the support of activist initiatives,with a focus on environmental defense.
