The Next Layer - free networks

Greening the Network Commons

Armin Medosch — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:53:32 +0000

In 2001, Shu Lea Cheang created Steam the green, Stream the field (Cheang, 2001-02), a work which anticipated a major shift in the discourse and practice of post-media art by 10 years. Shu Lea Cheang insists on calling herself a 'self-styled' artist, emphasising her autonomy to define her activities as art. Her projects highlight the potential of the coming together of social self-organisation with a social and trans-media art practice that combines landscapes and datascapes, the natural and the digital commons.

Porta2030

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:18:35 +0000

PORTA2030
by Take2030

PORTA2030 is conceived as a performative urgency network exercise with porta-porters works toward building a portable and responsive social network by year 2030.

PORTA2030 deploys porta-pack, a mobile network unit that documents, archives and transmits electro-data. Roaming in wifi-zone, PORTA-porters equipped with porta-packs upkeeps the communal data and echoes each other upon receiving urgency signals.

Link:

Homepage of the work

/tmp/lab announces the second Hacker Space Festival

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:03:31 +0000

Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Call For Proposals | HSF2009

In 2008, we organized HSF[1] on the spot, as an ad-hoc meeting for
hackerspaces-related networks, technical and artistic research emerging
from them and social questionning arising from them. This sudden
experiment proved to be a huge success, as much as on the
self-organizing level as on the participants and meetings quality, as
well as the emotionally-charged ambient, the kind of which you make
fond memories.

The 2008 edition generated a strong emulation in France, from its

Freie Netze - Geschichte, Kultur und Politik offener WLAN-Netze

Armin Medosch — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:51:35 +0000

Medosch A. 2003. Freie Netze - Geschichte, Kultur und Politik offener WLAN-Netze. Telepolis. :230.