Florian Hufsky (November 13, 1986 – December 16, 2009) was an
Austrian
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new media art
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ist, Computer
Hacker
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, political activist, founder and former board member of the
Pirate Party of Austria
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. He studied
graphic design
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at the
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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, but committed suicide before he could finish his studies.
Hufsky was a founding member of both the Viennese branch of ''Graffiti Research Lab'' and ''
soup.io
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History
Soup.io allowed the user to publish (editable in HTML) text, images, videos, links, quotes and reviews. It allowed users to share files (within the limit of 10 MB) and ...
''. He also created the ''
Super Mario
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'' derivate '' Super Mario War'', was a member of the programming and design group "72dpiarmy" and of Vienna's
hackerspace
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Metalab
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Graffiti Research Lab
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Linz
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Helsinki
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.
Hufsky organized the first international conference of the
pirate parties
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, together with Jürgen 'Juxi' Leitner and support from
Andreas Leo Findeisen
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Life and work
He worked as an assistant to Peter Sloterdijk. H ...
and
Johannes Grenzfurthner
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Rickard Falkvinge
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honoured Hufsky's involvement in helping to start the international movement by dedicating his closing keynote to him.Rick Falkvinge "Why are you here?", PPI conference 2011 closing keynote Piraten Streaming (Wolfgang Preiss), filmed March 13, 2011.