Monash University Museum of Art will, for an afternoon, host an unbridled exploration of the radio infrastructure on which we depend: GSM, analog radio (shipping, air traffic, marine) and WiFi.

At 3pm, Julian Oliver will lead the audience through an interrogation of signal domains as both techno-political territories and electromagnetic phenomena. He’ll explore the spectra in various domains and data “in the air”, discussing techniques of interruption and mitigation.

Following this presentation, Julian will build up and operate a technological performance to enact the infrastructure ‘speaking itself’, revealing its inner workings and history (an agent of its own rather than a transport/carrier/service).

Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His work and lectures have been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian has received several awards, most notably the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev).

Julian has also given numerous workshops and master classes in software art, data forensics, creative hacking, computer networking, counter-surveillance, object-oriented programming for artists, augmented reality, virtual architecture, video-game development, information visualisation and UNIX/Linux worldwide. He is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and is a supporter of, and contributor to, initiatives that promote and reinforce rights in the networked domain.