The book you are holding was created in five days by a dozen women. It represents the capstone to Deep Lab, a residency host- ed by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in collaboration with CMU’s CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.

Deep Lab is a congress of cyberfeminist researchers, organized by STUDIO Fellow Addie Wagenknecht to examine how the themes of privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity, and large- scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society. During the second week of December 2014, the Deep Lab participants—a group of internationally acclaimed new-media artists, information designers, data scientists, software engineers, hackers, writers, journalists and theoreticians—gathered to en- gage in critical assessments of contemporary digital culture. They worked collaboratively at the STUDIO in an accelerated pressure project, blending aspects of a booksprint, hackathon, dugnad, charrette, and a micro-conference. The outcomes of this effort include the visualizations, software, reflections and manifestos compiled in this book; an album of ten lecture presentations, the Deep Lab Lecture Series, which can be found in the STUDIO’s online video archive; and a twenty-minute documentary film featuring interviews with the Deep Lab participants.

Available in print and full-resolution PDF (109MB) from The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University . The version linked by Unglue.it is a reduced-size PDF (28MB).