Richard Thieme - Saturday 18th August 2012

A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE NECESSARY COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Richard Thieme speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, and how we might reinvent ourselves to meet these challenges. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the National Security Agency, FBI, US Secret Service and US Dept of the Treasury. Formerly an Episcopalian minister, Thieme has also spoken for sixteen years for the Black Hat Briefings on intelligence and corporate security, and at Def Con, an annual computer hackers' convention. Thieme's books include: Islands in the Clickstream (2004) and Mind Games, A Collection of Nineteen Stories of Brave New Worlds and Alternate Realities (2010).

Installation view of Richard Thieme's artefacts:
Display case with conference poster (All is not as it seems, The Science and Politics of UFO Research: A Symposium, Science Museum of Minnesota, USA), National Security Agency tea tray, Publicity cards for Mind Games: Nineteen Stories of Brave New Worlds and Alternate Realities, Black Hat T-shirt from the Black Hat Briefings, Folder from Black Hat Briefings, DOD CYBER CRIME RESPONSE TEAM T-shirt from DEFCON conference, National Security Agency patch.