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Open Hardware Month is a format by OSHWA (the Open Source Hardware Association). OSHWA is calling for worldwide action in the name of Open Source Hardware. RIAT will be hosting the format “Open Hardware Dialogues”, which follows the footsteps of a RIAT publication with the name “Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware”. This publication sheds…

Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware sheds light into the motivations and different open source strategies, as well as the different levels of “openness” (openisms) in open design movements. Openism unravels the varying perspectives of key practitioners and theoreticians on the development of open hardware across the globe including Richard Stallman, Joshua Pearce, Andrew Huang,…

Abstract [Talk by Matthias Tarasiewicz] FOSH in the past years has moved away from being a small niche and has developed to a relevant movement with significant and well-known projects. Open Science Hardware offers an opt-out potential against centralisation, as visible in the Safecast Crowd Science Geiger Counter, which offered concerned people a chance to fact-check…

Production in the 21st century works with distributed authorship and identities. Our projects are collective inquiries formed by distributing agency between humans, machines, and programs. RIAT is a research institute about “research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization”. We have an office and lab in…

The Critical Decentralisation Cluster at Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is an area and grouping of similar minded projects, which are offering workshops and host a space to critically discuss the future of decentralisation. The cluster at 36C3 is organised by RIAT and the Monero Community. We also host other assemblies in the categories Privacy &…

Matthias Tarasiewicz (parasew) is a senior developer, technology consultant and research designer. He is an enthusiast for immutable and unstoppable code and an Open-Source evangelist. Focus areas: Open-Source Hardware, Web3, privacy and decentralization. Director of the RIAT Institute and CSO of RIAT Labs. Contact Matthias via GitHub or the contact form. Matthias is an enthusiast…

Overview of external mentions and texts written about RIAT Institute. Austrian Blockchain Award 2022 – participation in the jury and selection process. WKO Vienna, May 31, 2022. Beginner’s Mind #60: Astrid Woollard, Dusica Lukac, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Irénée Robin – This was 2021 – A Year in Review. Beginner’s Mind podcast on amazon music, January 2,…

RIAT Essentials is a new workshop series for the improvement of business models, evaluation and validation of research-driven projects. RIAT has a long and vivid history of mentoring and developing research applications for science, science communication and technical projects in Austria and throughout Europe. In this event, RIAT introduces the series and discusses the experiences…

List of materials and consumables which are in use by the labs and workgroups. RIAT consists of different labs and workgroups, which work internationally but have specific shared resources in order to function. You can support the labs by sending us machines, consumables or other things from the material lists. Please send to our postal…

The RIAT institute is an NGO and works in the fields of Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Open and Libre Hardware, and Coded Cultures. Our aims are to create literacy in crypto, open hardware and fringe research. You can support our mission! RIAT is organised and registered as an NGO and is operated through support from the…

In this book detailed reviews and perspectives from international artists, theorists, researchers and curators are presented and put into context with different tendencies of art, science, design and technology. Through the establishment of new creative cultures, enabled by digital media and global communication networks, new practices and ability profiles of artistic delineations and explorations are…

Future Cryptoeconomics #1 (Tarasiewicz, Newman, Antonopoulos, Brekke, Stark, Miyazaki, Buterin, Polat, Schuppli, Hubik). ISSN: 2617-6289  Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and Distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research in: Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, DeGruyter, Edition Angewandte, 1st edition (June 11, 2018). ISBN-13: 978-3110525137  Forking as cultural practice: institutional…

The event archive is currently under reconstruction. Please see the RIAT Github for events and participations. If you find something missing in the list here, please open an issue on Github or create a pull request. 2022 Events for 2022 not in archive yet 2021 Events for 2021 not in archive yet 2020 Date Description…

The history of RIAT can be traced back to the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net that was established in 2003 by Matthias Tarasiewicz, Ile Cvetkoski, Karina Lackner and Michal Wlodkowski. The collective focused on artistic research at the intersection of media, arts, technology and society and was responsible for developing the Coded Cultures platform.  Coded Cultures’ goal…

RIAT is structured in labs, and we have past and running projects. RIAT has a lab and office in Austria, and workgroups globally. Running projects (as of 2026) Please contact us if you are interested to learn more. Labs at RIAT Activities archive (2003 – 2020) RIAT Open Hardware Lab The RIAT Open Hardware Lab…

RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement. RIAT Institute is a multidisciplinary research organization focused on the intersection of art, design, technology, and society. Established in…

RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement. Browse the RIAT events archive for highlights and international participations from 2004 to 2026. You can contact us or…