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CSI Talk #24
Cade Diehm and Benjamin Royer
The world has entered an era where no recorded voice or face can be trusted. Amongst the many system-shocks the 2020s will be remembered for, this is a tectonic shift that shatters how we cultivate social trust, especially in these of societies.
Cade Diehm's Bio:
With a multi-disciplinary background in information security, interface politics and digital anthropology, Cade and his team study technology's macro-influence on subculture, livelihood, identity, climate and conflict. Prior to founding the New Design Congress, Cade spent six years leading design-focused digital security projects in Australia, the United States, Korea, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He was an information security researcher and head of production at the Berlin-based non-profit Tactical Tech.
Benjamin Royer's Bio:
As Research Director, Benjamin focuses on the political dimension of human-computer interactions, and provides a research-driven backbone to our work. Benjamin combines more that 10 years of insider knowledge on the tech, design and consulting industries, together with a sharp critical framework borrowing from philosophy, anthropology and sociology. His work has taken the form of collaborations with Ink & Switch, PEN America, Mozilla, Webrecorder, Protocol Labs, WYNG Foundation and Signal. Benjamin is the author of The Imperial Sensorium, a postcolonial study of the cybernetic political economy.
Diehm's Additional Work:
Cade has collaborated with PEN America, the University College London, the London College of Communication, Signal, Google, Mozilla, Bauhaus Earth, Webrecorder, Eyebeam, C/O Berlin, Art Sonje Center, Open Archive, Superbloom Design, WYNG Foundation, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Furtherfield, Ink & Switch, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, the International Institute for the Environment and Development, the European Commission, Protocol Labs, the Deutschland Bundestag Prototype Fund, the Center for Digital Resilience, Consumer Reports, the Algorithmic Transparency Institute and many others.
Royer's Additional Work:
He is the co-author of Memory in Uncertainty, a landmark report on the discipline of web archiving which has been featured at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (2023) and RESAW (2023) academic conferences on digital preservation. Benjamin has also translated Adam Greenfield's book Radical Technologies, The Design of Everyday Life in French for Presence(s) Editions.
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