Search results for: “hardware”

  • Openism – Projects and Conversations in Open Source Hardware

    Openism unravels the development of open hardware from Richard Stallman, Joshua Pearce, Andrew Huang, Katherine Scott, Madeline Gannon, Silvia Lindtner and others. Stories of 3D-printed stethoscopes in the Gaza Strip, […]

  • Making Artistic Technology: Illustrated book for kids, new makers and future hardware hackers

    Hacking has an aura of rebellion and is democratizing decentralization. But products are not produced by sophisticated robots, but through working hands-on, hacking away under sometimes harmful conditions. Communities produce, […]

  • RIAT Open Hardware Dialogues at OSHWA Open Source Hardware Month

    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 […]

  • Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware

    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 […]

  • HCPP 2019: The past, present and future of Opt-Out with Open and Libre Hardware

    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. […]

  • Background

    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 […]

  • Critical Decentralisation Cluster (36c3)

    The Critical Decentralisation Cluster on the Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is an area and grouping of similar minded projects, which are offering workshops and host a space to critically discuss […]

  • Matthias Tarasiewicz

    Matthias Tarasiewicz 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 […]

  • Hot topics in Blockchain and Web3 (2023 edition)

    2023 edition of trends in Blockchain and Web3. A previous version of this research has been published in Blockchain Technology Report, by Vienna Business Agency (2022). This post is an […]

  • RIAT Press features

    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: […]

  • RIAT Essentials

    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 […]

  • Materials list

    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 […]

  • Support

    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, […]

  • Coded Cultures: New Creative Practices out of Diversity (Edition Angewandte)

    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 […]

  • Publications

    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 […]

  • Events Archive of the RIAT Institute

    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 […]

  • History

    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 […]

  • Projects

    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 Q2 2024) Please […]

  • About

    RIAT utilizes experimental technology and open hardware to explore and actively stress-test the role of research and development in the age of zero-trust. Through novel forms of presentation, discussion and […]

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