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Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, critical engineer, and artist based in Berlin. His work has been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Oliver has received several awards, including the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev). He is the co-author of the Critical Engineering Manifesto and co-founder of Crypto Party in Berlin. He is also the co-founder of BLACKLIST, a screening and panel series focused on the primary existential threats of our time. He is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and actively supports and contributes to initiatives that reinforce rights of privacy and anonymity in technologically-mediated domains.