Paranoid Steganography is an intentionally naive approach to interpreting signals and symbols. It combines the techniques of cryptographic analysis and reverse engineering with the premise that there are secret messages everywhere. Workshop participants will build simple antennae to capture ambient electro-magnetic signals. These signals will be fed into a laptop which will then translate them based on our paranoid mapping to sound or images.

Brendan Howell
Brendan Howell (USA, b. 1976) is a media artist and an engineer. In addition to his own software works and interactive inventions, he contributes to Open Source software projects including Fritzing and Gnome. He is the creator of PyCessing, a system for learning and experimental programming. He often teaches at universities like UMBC, The Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, FH-Potsdam and the Merz Akademie. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and teaches at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule.
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