I am Richard Spindler, a Diplom-Ingenieur in the field of Computer Science from Austria.
I have been at the Piksel Festival for several years now, presenting my Open Source Software Open Movie Editor, and also the underlying Gmerlin
Framework, and the surrounding Linux Video Developers community.

I am an Open Source Developer and Advocate, this year I was speaking about Open Source and Free Software Video Applications at the Linux Audio Conference in Parma for example, and I am also interested in Open Street Map, giving talks about it on the yearly LinuxDay Event in Dornbirn, Austria.

As a Software Developer I was always interested in the concepts and foundations of user Interface Design, and furthermore the concept of Man-Machine Communication, which led me to become interested in the concept of communication between humans themselves.

Therefore, this year I would like to speak not about Software as in Computer Programs, but rather about a little research project of mine, that could probably be called Brainware. Most of my work was heavily inspired by the experiences and ideas that I carried home from past Piksel Festivals.

What I will talk about are practical Experiments that I did during this year, in respect to programming brains, both your own brain and other peoples brain, I will show movie clips, give some interesting ideas on how to understand them, and about how to apply this knowledge to ones own surroundings. I will offer advice and tricks how to tune out of the world that surrounds us and how to trick oneself into relying onto your natural instincts in a controlled and technocratic world. I will talk about how to cultivate habits that make an individual stronger to resist harmful inflences from advertising and civilizational delusions and distractions. Also I will present methods and advice about how to create systems and structures to provide oneself with positive influence, as well as how to recognize and use existing infrastructure in your immediate surroundings for positive inspiration and support. I will also give a short intro into fnords, what they are, and how to recognize them.

Additionally I will offer a diverse selection of internet links with further
reading material to offer additional information for those that are more
interested and to provide vast resources and inspiration for everyone to start working on their own experiments in this field. Also pointers to movies and books that might come in helpful as well will be provided.

Some of the stuff that I am presenting will be tough and difficult, shocking and disturbing, but from what I've seen over the last years, I believe that the Piksel audience is openminded enough to see through my petty metaphors and to understand what I will be explaining.

Also I believe that some of the material that I will be presenting might be
familiar to many pikslers, as I've seen people also working with similar
concepts in their pieces.

My talk will be disillusioning, enlightening, surprising, confusing but entertaining and completely crazy. Have fun.