For the first edition of Avatar.fm, Privacy Salon and community radio station dublab teamed up at CPDP.ai 2024. Avatar.fm is a temporary radio project broadcasting live from CPDP during the conference days. 

Giving a voice to the young and new generation of privacy, data protection, AI, and computer scientist heads, Avatar.fm amplifies stories and testimonials of students, junior researchers and other activists in the form of’Console Talks’ and ‘Interludes’.  

Avatar.fm at CPDP.ai 2024 was hosted by Savsannah, one of dublab’s in-house radio hosts. Together with dublab favourite DJ’s, she guided us through an amazing lineup of guests. She connected fifteen-minute ‘Console Talks’ featuring representatives from renowned organizations such as the Chaos Computer Club, Europe's leading association of hackers; The Security Distillery, a student-run think tank connected to the University of Glasgow; Panoptykon, a group of young people who refused to treat new technologies as a cure-all, among others. Here and there ‘Interludes’ sneaked in to infuse the show.  

The first two days were concluded by two live acts in front of the Avatar.fm studio at Gare Maritime Brussels. The first day we had the pleasure to immerse ourselves into Ugné¨ Uma’s melismatic and intertextual cosmos, while the second day we were enchanted by Ben Bertrand’s clarinet and countless machines.  

Listen back at  https://dublab.de/collections/avatar-fm/ for insights and passion stories about the datafied world and AI related subjects, interwoven with DJ-sets and concerts by numerous dublab favourites. 

The first edition of Avatar.fm was coördinated by Birte Vingerhoets & Ferre Vander Elst