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Herald-Angel: So please welcome Michelle
for her talk about the urban organism
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hacking in Hong Kong.
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Michelle: So thank you for coming today.
First of all, you could be anywhere right
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now and you decided to come here, so, I
really appreciate it. This talk will
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engage the practices and protocols of
hacking in the context of Hong Kong, and
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the relationship of that with the socio-
cultural aspects of architecture and
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urbanism. But why architecture and
urbanism? For a brief background, I'm
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trained as an architect. But after about
10 years of corporate architecture, I
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needed to kind of expand my tentacles. So
now I build buildings to maintain that
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technical proficiency. And I work in
creative media which allows me to have
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more instant gratification, and a more
personal contact with individual people.
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And I teach in the faculty of Design
Environment at a university in Hong Kong.
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So the Metropolis I'm speaking of refers
to Hong Kong. If it wasn't obvious
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already. It is a city of contradictions, a
cultural pastiche of a colonial system,
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Chinese traditions and with globalized
modernity. So if the city slogan, Asia's world
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city, it maintains itself as a entrepôt,
or in other words, the intermediary
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between China and the rest of the world.
So before, we were trading opium, tea,
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sugar, textiles, and which now has
transitioned to focus more on the
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financial sector, so cocaine, insurance
and stocks. For many of those just passing
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through Hong Kong which is frequent and
obvious for anyone coming over to Asia.
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There are several factors that make it
such an exciting prospect. So the hyper
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density here is always a fascination. This
isn't super relevant, but the image on the
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left is from the Leandro Ehrlich, it's
called "The Room". It's a surveillance
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camera, many surveillance cameras on one
room and the other one does a
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juxtaposition with our typical facades in
Hong Kong. So the exciting prospects: One
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is the proximity to Chinese manufacturers.
So it's close enough where you can hop
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over to Shenzhen, so the manufacturer hub,
for just a few hours. You could just take
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a day trip. So if we have a MOSFET
emergency, you can run over there within
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an hour, and grab everythin you need and
go back. But, we are also just outside of
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a great firewall. We don't have any of
those issues, or, not most. And it's
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culturally accessible, that's number two.
You won't feel incredibly left out with no
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Chinese language skills. You will still be
a little bit left out, but not completely.
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You can still function and operate there
happily. And then three is the stimuli. As with
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any metropolis, there's a factor of hyper
activity that has this distinct scent of
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infinite possibilities. Anything can
happen. And this is the difference that I
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feel most because you can make anything
happen there if you're just willing to pay
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a little bit. Sometimes it's not a lot of
money and I'll go into this detail later
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actually. Excuse me. So in this socio-
cultural cornucopia, what gives way to
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these contradictions and complexities, is
a notoriously wide income gap, the soaring
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costs of real estate and as well as the
pressure towards commercialism. The more
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we raise ourselves into the clouds,
exploring the limits of the upwards
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trajectory, it also creates wider
separations from one another, and in that
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segregation, it creates uniformity. The
defining characteristics of any post-
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modern city is how control is leveraged in
the hands of the bureaucracy. Urban
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policy, especially in Hong Kong, is a
stringent arrangement serving only the
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private and the powerful. And without
going into the boring details, but for the
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most part, the applied label here is
called crony capitalism. So technological
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changes in the quality of public space
make it increasingly more evident that the
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urban realm is a temporary experience that
has imploded by the changes in the social
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contract. The enjoyment of public space is
normally governed by authority: public
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transportation, parks, and even the most
mundane section of the pavement; some are
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the responsibility of an organization. In
this respect, the city relinquishes itself
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as a home or a collective space, but rather
a temporary flow of people, information,
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and commodities. So did you know? The
parks in Hong Kong is nothing like the
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parks in Germany. We have signs that say,
no smoking, no drinking - OK, fine - no
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busking, no bicycles, no skateboards, no
hawking, so basically no fun. The pavements
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aswell, if you've been to Hong Kong,
or you see in the video, the pavements are
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about 1.2m wide before you reach the
façade of a building next to you. That's
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because they are keen on maximizing 100%
site boundaries which reach up to there.
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That's why we are all closed in because
the pavement in front of every building is
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typically owned by the business in front
of it. So that is actually their section
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of the pavement, not yours but it's
theirs. So while each technological
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revolution allows us to offset mundane
tasks, we've also been offsetting the
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responsibility of monitoring these
machines to large scale institutions.
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Technology has been an extension of
ourselves for a long time but very few pay
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mind of what part of us that amputates.
The quote from Gary Taubes where he writes
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about sugar, like candy, the sugar: "It's
a substance that causes pleasure with a
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price that is difficult to discern
immediately, and painful only years and or
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decades later." That's from the case
against sugar, 2016. And if we consider
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cities moving more into the virtual realm,
into cyber urbanism with smart technology,
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we're heading into a world that is
shackled by algorithmic conformity. For
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one example, by mass implementation of
self driving cars. And within these
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networks of organized complexities, we
were never meant to be in concrete boxes,
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hovering in the sky, hermetically sealed
from one another. For thousands of years,
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our genetic programming had us living in
tribes. And while the world seemed to
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shrink in distance, with steam engines,
airplanes, and the Internet, the space
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with and between each other expanded even
more. So machines replaced our fingers,
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and we no longer needed each other to meet
our needs, but instead on a system.
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Hopefully, I set the stage now for this
very dystopian Blade Runner view-esque of
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the city. So a certain level of uniformity
is inevitable. And to me, uniformity is
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not so bad if we can translate this to
cooperation. And to begin our detailed
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understanding of similarities before we
implicate and find the changes within the
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cracks. We have this inherent quality in
us, the small children, with such joy in
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playing with switches and boxes, pushing
buttons, and identifying objects as mine
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and yours. But because of this innate
desire to make changes to our
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environments, and leave a mark in this
world. So our ability to make collective,
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So our ability to make collective,
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inflexible cooperation in large numbers is
our strength in this world. And I mean
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that's why we're all here in this amazing
event, built by so many hands that are
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sometimes organized and sometimes not.
Together, we're finding a balance between
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the ecological and the engineered, or the
organic versus the designed. And to me,
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the metaphorical link between the city and
hacker spaces also have something in
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common with termites, ants, birds,
mussels, and mold. It's the experimental,
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harmonic composition that arises from
spatial self organization.
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So it shows something that's difficult to miss,
once you crossed your path. It's a horde of
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termites animating a still branch, both
building and destroying the physical
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environment at the same time. And I enjoy
observing termites and ants for their
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emergent complex co-operative, yet
primitive behaviour. And so in this line
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of thinking, the macro and micro of our
environments. And that is one of the
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aspects that draws me to hacker spaces
because they too are part of this greater
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concept of collective, distributive
action. Although part so to this very
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messy human factor called the hacker
community. So, Dim Sum Labs, Hong Kong's
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first and only hackerspace. Started off
like most hacker spaces, with a few people
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getting together in informal places to
chat about all things geeky. And then the
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official location was secured in 2011 with
about 10 different cofounders in a
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commercial building in Sheung Wan which is
near the center. So super convenient for
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people to access, but also means, there's
a scarcity of space. It's kind of a funny
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name. The red part means Dim Sum, touch
your heart, literally. But Dim Sum
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naturally refers to a particular cuisine
or an activity in Hong Kong where you can
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potentially spend hours nibbling on things
in bamboo steamer baskets and whatnot. And
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when lots of people join together, you
have this very diverse opportunity to
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taste and experiment so many different
things. It's cute, right? (Oh, I lost another
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image. So is the image of Dim Sum. And
I'm going crazy now.) OK. So, as I described
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earlier, our proximity to China, because
of our limited space, because of the
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context where money is king and we are
fools in this court, it shapes the culture
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of our space in ways like affording
ourselves really cheap equipments and
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components. For example, our laser cutter
was 4000 RNB, which is about 500 Euro,
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and components, so it's about a 1000
resistors for half a Euro. But instead, we
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spend the rest of the money on rent
instead. And also, what changes the
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culture is very transitional
atmosphere of people that move onto their
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journeys, their hobbies, or their
lifestyle. And in Hong Kong, like the rest
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of the world outside of Germany, hacking
has a very different connotation than we'd
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prefer. So as I define it, it is the
intellectual activity of exploring an
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object, system or protocol beyond its
intended means. Of course, most people
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don't see it that way, which is why (oh,
get out of here termites, okay) which is
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why there is a book called "The Field
Guide to Hacking". It's a handshake, if you
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will, to the greater community. How can we
encourage others to hack, without showing
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them how? So the book contains a
collection of projects in an instructable
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manner, sort of. Essays and snapshots of
the activity in our nebulous community,
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And is ordered into 6 sections, each
prefaced by essays by someone who can
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explain some peripheral topics of hacking.
It begins with a foreword by Mitch Altman
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because if you're going to talk about
community, how can you not involve Mitch?
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And if anyone doesn't know who he is, he
also yearly organizes a hacker's trip to
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China, so many of you have come to visit
some labs in Hong Kong which is amazing.
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Some of the projects, we start off with
something very simple, like a button badge
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that you can solder yourself, with links
to github repository and all your
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components that you need to do it, and
potentially teach you how to solder it. Some
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projects are a little more functional.
This is the kilowatt countered that we
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have in our space where we monitor the use
of electricity in the space. And that also
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helps if someone has left the air con on
and it's empty, so we know. Some of the
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products are a little more polemic. This
is Neomi "SexyCyborg" Wu. She's quite well
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known. If you follow her on Twitter and if
you want to check her Twitter, you'll find
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out yourself. general laughter And there
are some projects that are a little more
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artistic. So this is fields by me and
Savio. There's one here which maybe I'll
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show you later if I have time. Mine is not
very instructional but I teach you how to
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hack it and how it works which I suppose
is more important. And then the essays not
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only provide the spike from the sea of
projects, but also a gesture for those who
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would like to know more about hacking but
perhaps not participate into it,
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participate in it physically. So this is
when I write a little bit about urbanism,
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and surveillance capitalism. This is from
Dr. Daniel Howe who teaches a class on
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hacktivism at the school of creative media
in the city university whose essay ponders
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the relationship between artistic freedom
and expression in Hong Kong. And Scott
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Edmunds who founded the Bauhinia genome
project. He works on a different kind of
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code. It's a four letter code of DNA. And
while cultivating a stronger relationship
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between locals and Hong Kong's history, by
way of citizen science. And on
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inclusivity, Sarah Fox writes about
technology and recognition with respect to
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the feminist space. And then we round it
all off with Luis Filipe R. Murilo who
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writes about this from an anthropologyst
perspective and empirically as a former
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member of Dim Sum Labs. So I hope that
throughout this talk and the book, that it
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provides some insight into the backdrop of
some of the issues that face Dim Sum Labs
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every day. It's not the easiest task to
have people on the other side of the world
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to have this empathetic sharing of our
Zeitgeist, but we try. Some of the things
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that have been asked to me, is where can I
find the book? So there's the website,
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and there's the email. The next question
is actually, can I buy the book? Well, not
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really, because I ran out, and because the
publisher is called Dim Sum Labs Press
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which isn't just me. So if anyone knows a
publisher that would like to help me?
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Because right now I'm just printing it
from Taobao. And if there's going to be
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another version, I kind of need more
content. So if you want to be part of
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this, and you are kind of part of the
community, please let me know. Contact is
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there. So this is not really a conclusion,
but I'm just going to assume it is. Hong
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Kong has become part of this geopolitical
experiment. So we are on this precarious
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edge between maintaining its openness, in
this sense where individuals can maintain
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their cultural roots, and are osmosis with
Shenzhen or China, a city where it lives
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under the guise of China's rules and
regulations, but as well as, breaking
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beyond its limitations in the physical and
the social sense. In Hong Kong, the type
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of travelers that I come across, always
have the same fascination towards the
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city. It's this kind of magical wonder as
one travels up the escalator in the center
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of the city, leaning over the edge just to
catch a glimpse of the sky as the towers
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are leaning towards each other. It's
amazing on one hand. Because it's a
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massive scale of structures that we built
with this comparatively tiny hands, and
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it's similar with electronics and whatnot.
We are encapsulating and embedding our
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perspectives within these artifacts that
perpetuate around us. But I also see it as
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relinquishing our dominion. We are
complicit to our own detriment by not
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really addressing who our environments
belong to. So in all respects: the
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physical, the temporal, and digital strata
that our streets are paved upon.
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That's it.
applause
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Herald-Angel: Thank you very much,
Michelle. We now have time for Q and A's,
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and I can see that we already have one
question from the microphone number 2.
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Microphone 2: So, thank you for your talk.
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What would you say to a inaudible
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Michelle: I'm thinking of how to say this.
Number one, you can't just calm, there's
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plenty of Europeans there, you'll fit
right in. Number two, there's - I just
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tell you - there is a way you can get your
own visa because it's very easy to start a
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business in Hong Kong. And then you can
kind of hire yourself and give yourself a
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visa.
M2: Thank you.
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Michelle: Don't tell anyone I said that.
Herald-Angel: Just between you and the
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internet. And speaking of that, do you
have any questions from the internet,
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Signal-Angels? No, no, it's no. So,
there's still two microphones and we have
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time for questions. So please if you have
it, we have a question from microphone
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number 1.
Microphone 1: Well, it's not a question,
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it's more, there is a publisher called
"No Starch Press", and it's for geeky stuff.
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So if you are looking for one, I
would suggest that one.
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Michelle: Ah, I did look at them. I
haven't gotten that far, yet, because as I
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pointed out, I kind of doing everything
myself, so. But if you know a contact.
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M 1: Will have a look.
H: And microphone number 2.
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M 2: Where do you see the difference
contact between Hong Kong and in Europe?
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Michelle: The fundamental activity of
hacking, I think, is not that different.
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As in, we are all people trying to explore
things: What cool thing can come out
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of the stuff around us? The difference, I
find most, is how we spend our time, and
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how generous we are with ourselves.
Because if you live in a very commercial
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city that is dominated by this mentality
of finance, and money, and how do I pay
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rent, and whatever, then your time becomes
money, and you do feel, or you get the
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feeling that people don't want to extend
so much because they're too busy with
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work, or they have to go to dinner, or
they just have better things to do, than
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to basically volunteer in a space.
H: And question from Microphone number 1
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Microphone 1: Hi, question: How famous are
hacker communities in Hong Kong, or the
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region in general? So if I would be
looking for an alternative to the Chaos
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Computer Congress here, what would I be
looking for in Asia, like, if not Hong
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Kong, then Singapore, or Tokio, like Asia.
Michelle: Can you rephrase your question?
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I don't know..
Microphone1: So, question is, if I'm
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looking for a hacker event in Asia. What
do I look for? Which city, what event?
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Michelle: We don't have very many hacker
events in Asia. There is some in
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Singapore, and I suppose the Tokyo Maker
Fair is pretty cool in terms of like
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artifacts and stuff. But we don't have as
much of this community because hacking is
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very much so a Western concept, and the
way a lot of Asia, if we include China and
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the rest of it, it's not necessarily
considered hacking. I mean if you
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understand the way Chinese do things, if
we bring in the concept of Shanzhai, they
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don't think that's hacking. That's kind of
just part of the culture. That's what you
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do to make things work for yourself. So
it's a little more dispersed and it's not
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under the umbrella term that is easy to
find here.
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M 1: Shenzhen Maker Fair?
Michelle: Oh yeah, Shenzhen Maker Fair is
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also really cool.
Herald-Angel: We have a question from
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number 2.
M 2: Meeting here inaudible it's really cool
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How do you reach outside the community,
beyond the hackerspace, beyond the
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industry. How this works. Around Hong
Kong, if you do it? How do you do it?
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Michelle: You mean reaching the community
outside of the hacker space?
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M 2: Artists inaudible
Michelle: So I'm hoping that's what the
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book accomplishes. Since I have pushed it
through a non-profit architectural design,
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yeah, non-profit, so that's reaching a
different network. Unfortunately, by doing
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that, and same with architects and
education, hacking and hacker spaces is
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kind of this counterculture underground
thing where it's cool now. So that's
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another thing I have to negotiate because
I don't want it to be just a trend, or a
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toy that someone says like, your
alternative version of whatever, but more
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as a way of life, way of thinking type
thing.
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Herald-Angel: We still have time for more
questions. There is a question from
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Microphone number 2.
Microphone 2: Hello from a fellow Hong Kong
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citizen. So I'm just wondering what the
inaudible Hong Kong is inaudible politically?
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inaudible just an example.
Michelle: If you say, do you mean
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politically like, just directly against
China and Hong Kong then I wouldn't say so
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much. Because the current member base is
not very local, and they have their own
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politics to establish. Although, if you
consider politics as in Open Source then
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there are people that do that.
It's a very vague answer, I'm sorry.
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Microphone: The question i've had, the
number of educational programs...
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I'm just, I couldn't keep on reading the
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inaudible from Hong Kong.
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I don't think hacking, or learning about
coding is such a marginal thing, it seems
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that it is the trend... It's that a lot of
rich Hong Kong parents, they are very
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eager to put their kids into learning
coding and stuff, maybe there is something
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there that spaces can look into?
Michelle: I agree with that idea that it's
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very big now to... kids' camps and coding
and whatnot, although I still believe that
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because you're introducing these kits to a
child, that you develop this and this is
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what happens, that they still maintain
that mindset. And what I'm hoping is that
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they have... they can change their
thinking into: What do I need this kit for
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when I can mix up all these other things
that are outside of it. So it's... that
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idea's based on the educational system in
Hong Kong as well, where, you know that
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it's mostly about regurgitation and less
about critical thinking. So that's what
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I'm kind of pushing them more towards, in
terms of actually doing it in education.
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I try to do it with my students but I can
really only do so much.
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Herald-Angel: Please don't be shy. There
is still time for questions and I'm quite
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sure that Michelle has more to offer you
in terms of dialogue. So get up behind the
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microphones if you have any questions. And
also do we have any questions from the
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internet? No, no questions from the
Internet. You, Michelle, you brought along
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a thing that you have on the table. Do you
want to share it with us?
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Michelle: This is just in case I talk too
fast and I didn't finish my presentation.
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Then I brought this thing. So this is the
book that I was talking about. It's covered
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in stickers because it is my copy.
So there's two pieces of copper on
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the front of the limited edition version.
I'm sorry you didn't get one.
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The limited edition version.
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And in the back there's supposed
to be a PCB embedded into it.
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So how it works is that as you draw a line
with a graphite pencil connecting the two
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pieces of copper it changes the frequency
of the sound that's coming out from the
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back PCB. So then this version was turned
into a through hole mount version so it
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can be presented at Seoul or Hong Kong. So
this is the through hole version. So I
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guess I'm just going to play with it for
you a little, wind this up. Also this was
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built because the Dim Sum Lab's logo is a
cha siu bao, so a barbecue pork bun, on a
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5-5-5 IC timer, so this whole thing is
built on, is based on that 5-5-5.
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Just to be inaudible.
device emits sound
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So this is volume...
Michelle adjusts volume on the device
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Then we can change the pitch...
Michelle changes pitch from high to low
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And then the inaudible
device emits sound
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And then we have switches that can change
it from a continuous manner
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to a step fashion...
device emits changed sound
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Yes, that's kind of it.
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Applause
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Herald-Angel: Thank you very much, Michelle.
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And I think we should give Michelle
another round of applause
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for her excellent presentation.
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Applause
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