Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré: Handmade Networks
➠ book presentation and conversation with the authors · Jussi Parikka and Vanina Saracino
@pankegallery, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 at 19:00
– organized in collaboration with @aksioma – Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
https://panke.gallery/event/steffen-koehn-and-nestor-sire-handmade-networks
Handmade Networks presents a body of research-based artworks by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré. Their collaborative projects explore how the Cuban people have compensated for their lack of internet connectivity by building massive alternative infrastructures, such as grassroots community computer networks or offline “sneakernets”. They document how Cubans defy material scarcity by recycling or appropriating obsolete technologies, creating digital exchange platforms on messenger applications, or engaging in play-to-earn blockchain games. By examining the resilient and resistive potentials of these vernacular infrastructures, Köhn and Siré's work also reimagines such networks as viable alternatives to the capitalist, consumerist digital infrastructures controlled by an oligopoly of Big Tech companies that have homogenised the global internet.
The book, published by Aksioma in 2024, opens with an essay by Cuban science fiction writer Erick J. Mota and closes with a conversation between educator and researcher Bani Brusadin and the artists.
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré: Handmade Networks; edited by Janez Fakin Janša
EN | 23 x 15 cm | 176 pp | color | soft cover | 2024
https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks
Copies available at a discounted price during the event.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
panke.gallery SOUND NIGHT 15
Thursday, 30 January 2025 from 8 pm – open end | random dice roll
https://panke.gallery/event/panke-gallery-sound-night-15
featuring Rotary Farm (Evan Roth) | Fetter [live] | Rollercoaster Kai | Sakrowski | Nimrod Astarhan | Mezzy Shivers [live] | live visuals Clusterduck | Rumstedt | Holk
As part of ♥ U̶n̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ V̶o̶r̶s̶p̶i̶e̶l̶ 2̶0̶2̶5̶ we celebrate our 15th panke.gallery SoundNight. We have two live acts + four DJ sets and three live visuals for you. It's a simple party to come together and have some good moments in this dark winter times.
➠ @sakrowski ambient sounds
➠ Rotary Farm (Evan Roth) Farm to table beats, hip-hop, instrumentals, loops, and sunshine.
➠ Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator working in sculpture and digital media. Fresh from Chicago's experimental scene to Berlin, and especially for the panke family night, they excavate and reanimate forgotten West Asian disco gems while weaving through genre-fluid soundscapes.
➠ live Fetter makes clubby self-destructing noise pop to dance and weep to. Oscillating between ethereal and pounding, their all-hardware, largely improvised live sets take listeners through a foggy wilderness of saturated rhythms and menacing synth lines, a golden voice guiding the way through. Fetter is the musical project of Berlin-based multimedia artist, Jessica Tucker.
➠ live mezzy shivers Raised in New Jersey, the early memories of Mezzy Shivers are flooded with deciduous trees and murky rivers, pot-holed highways and flickering street lamps. Her media intake consisted of horror films, bubblegum pop, and fantasy books. As a result, discovering her work is akin to stumbling upon a dark and dreamy rabbit hole.
➠ Rollercoaster Kai is a sonic explorer, smashing musical boundaries by remixing genres into mind-bending narratives.
➠ visuals by
Clusterduck
Esben Holk
Hannah Rumstedt
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré: Handmade Networks
➠ book presentation and conversation with the authors · Jussi Parikka and Vanina Saracino
@pankegallery, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 at 19:00
– organized in collaboration with @aksioma – Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
https://panke.gallery/event/steffen-koehn-and-nestor-sire-handmade-networks
Handmade Networks presents a body of research-based artworks by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré. Their collaborative projects explore how the Cuban people have compensated for their lack of internet connectivity by building massive alternative infrastructures, such as grassroots community computer networks or offline “sneakernets”. They document how Cubans defy material scarcity by recycling or appropriating obsolete technologies, creating digital exchange platforms on messenger applications, or engaging in play-to-earn blockchain games. By examining the resilient and resistive potentials of these vernacular infrastructures, Köhn and Siré's work also reimagines such networks as viable alternatives to the capitalist, consumerist digital infrastructures controlled by an oligopoly of Big Tech companies that have homogenised the global internet.
The book, published by Aksioma in 2024, opens with an essay by Cuban science fiction writer Erick J. Mota and closes with a conversation between educator and researcher Bani Brusadin and the artists.
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré: Handmade Networks; edited by Janez Fakin Janša
EN | 23 x 15 cm | 176 pp | color | soft cover | 2024
https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks
Copies available at a discounted price during the event.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
U̶n̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ V̶o̶r̶s̶p̶i̶e̶l̶ 2̶0̶2̶5̶
To replace the cancelled #Vorspiel (ꐦ¬_¬), here a community-sourced calendar for events by Berlin-based spaces and initiatives before and during transmediale & CTM Festival.
EVENTS
https://unofficial.vorspiel2025.xyz
January - February 2025
=> ..^=
contact: vorspiel2025@bitnik.org
@mediengruppe_bitnik
=> View attached media | View attached media
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
We wish you and us a better, fairer, and kinder 2025. Thank you for being an essential part of our gallery!
⧉ https://panke.gallery
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Have a peaceful holiday and see you next year!
↝ @pankegallery · https://panke.gallery
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Now #SaveBrainCity
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
About Us Calendar 2025 launch by Niko Princen
https://panke.gallery/event/about-us-calendar-2025
📍 panke.gallery, Friday, 13 December 2024; 18:00 – 21:00
🗓️ 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Join us! 💥🚀 Welcome!
We are pleased to host the "About Us" calendar launch also this year: The 'About Us' calendar series by Niko Princen consists of high resolution portrait photos the artist finds on the about us page of websites from companies, universities or other institutions. At panke.gallery we celebrate the 2025 calendar release in the presence of the artist and come together for the last event of the year with drinks at Panke Club.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
About Us Calendar 2025 launch by Niko Princen
https://panke.gallery/event/about-us-calendar-2025
📍 panke.gallery, Friday, 13 December 2024; 18:00 – 21:00
🗓️ 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Join us! 💥🚀 Welcome!
We are pleased to host the "About Us" calendar launch also this year: The 'About Us' calendar series by Niko Princen consists of high resolution portrait photos the artist finds on the about us page of websites from companies, universities or other institutions. At panke.gallery we celebrate the 2025 calendar release in the presence of the artist and come together for the last event of the year with drinks at Panke Club.
👤👤👤👤👤👤👤👤👤
According to our data, Niko Princen is an ultra-contemporary artist. Niko Princen is a Dutch artist born in Amsterdam (NL) in 1979.
Niko Princen's first verified exhibition was Metrospective 1.0 at Future Gallery in Berlin in 2011, and the most recent exhibition was Projected.Capital at Roehrs & Boetsch in Zurich in 2018. Niko Princen is most frequently exhibited in Germany, but also had exhibitions in Switzerland, United States and elsewhere. Princen has at least one solo show and 12 group shows over the last 7 years (for more information, see biography). Princen has also been in no less than no art fairs but in 3 biennials. A notable show was Hamster Hipster Handy. Im Bann des Mobiltelefons at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main in 2015. Other notable shows were at Dallas Aurora in Dallas, TX and Triennale Valais Wallis in Sierre. Niko Princen has been exhibited with Constant Dullaart and Lindsay Lawson.
Niko Princen is ranked among the Top 100,000 globally, and among the Top 1,000 in Netherlands. Princen's best rank was in 2015, with the most dramatic change in 2012. For a complete illustration of the artist's career since 2011, please see the career chart on the trends page.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
About Us Calendar 2025 launch by Niko Princen
https://panke.gallery/event/about-us-calendar-2025
📍 panke.gallery, Friday, 13 December 2024; 18:00 – 21:00
🗓️ 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Join us! 💥🚀 Welcome!
We are pleased to host the "About Us" calendar launch also this year: The 'About Us' calendar series by Niko Princen consists of high resolution portrait photos the artist finds on the about us page of websites from companies, universities or other institutions. At panke.gallery we celebrate the 2025 calendar release in the presence of the artist and come together for the last event of the year with drinks at Panke Club.
👤👤👤👤👤👤👤👤👤
According to our data, Niko Princen is an ultra-contemporary artist. Niko Princen is a Dutch artist born in Amsterdam (NL) in 1979.
Niko Princen's first verified exhibition was Metrospective 1.0 at Future Gallery in Berlin in 2011, and the most recent exhibition was Projected.Capital at Roehrs & Boetsch in Zurich in 2018. Niko Princen is most frequently exhibited in Germany, but also had exhibitions in Switzerland, United States and elsewhere. Princen has at least one solo show and 12 group shows over the last 7 years (for more information, see biography). Princen has also been in no less than no art fairs but in 3 biennials. A notable show was Hamster Hipster Handy. Im Bann des Mobiltelefons at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main in 2015. Other notable shows were at Dallas Aurora in Dallas, TX and Triennale Valais Wallis in Sierre. Niko Princen has been exhibited with Constant Dullaart and Lindsay Lawson.
Niko Princen is ranked among the Top 100,000 globally, and among the Top 1,000 in Netherlands. Princen's best rank was in 2015, with the most dramatic change in 2012. For a complete illustration of the artist's career since 2011, please see the career chart on the trends page.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
➠ this was our 2024:
https://youtu.be/vHCoXdijAJ8
⁂
Thank you to all the artists, exhibitors, speakers, collaborators, organizers, and visitors!
⁂
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
On Curating Academy Berlin
https://www.curating.org
@sakrowski: "Exhibiting and Contextualizing Net Art"
– talk
Friday, 15 November 2024, 6 pm
ZK/U Berlin
Siemensstr. 27
10551 Berlin
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvc-2orzouHdIa4n-BbsXP0YndvFOnsyiF#/registration
In Exhibiting and Contextualizing Net Art, #Sakrowski reflects on his efforts over the past twenty years to find appropriate formats for exhibiting, contextualizing, and documenting net art. As an art historian, he is committed to creating a historical record of this avant-garde movement and the phenomenon of net art from its inception. His interest goes beyond opposition to the then-dominant paradigms of the art world—such as authorship, authenticity, and originality. Net art also addressed crucial questions arising from societal change from the post-industrial era to what is now called a networked society, developing a specific aesthetic in the process. In addition, the ephemeral and fragile nature of net art has made its preservation even more important.
In this talk, Sakrowski will introduce various exhibition formats and talk about his open curating platforms such as grid.org and openAR.art, as well as his online exhibitions on curatingyoutube.net. He will also provide insights into his last ten years as a curator at panke.gallery in Berlin. In addition, Sakrowski will present his interview and video formats, which are designed to document and provide context for net art.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
WE NEED TO TALK!
The #BerlinIsCulture action alliance is calling for a standing demonstration in front of the Brandenburger Tor at Platz des 18. März on November 13, 2024.
This is our response to the main committee meeting, which will negotiate planned cuts in the cultural budget of the Berlin budget.
[#]BerlinIsCulture #BerlinIsCulturalDiversity #PreventCultureCuts
https://www.berlinistkultur.de/demo
WIR MÜSSEN REDEN - Ein vielfältiges Programm für Berlin
Demo gegen die Kulturkürzungen am 13.11.2024 ab 10.00 Uhr auf dem Platz des 18. März am Brandenburger Tor
Das Aktionsbündnis #BerlinIstKultur ruft zum 13. November 2024 zur stehenden Demonstration vor das Brandenburger Tor auf den Platz des 18. März.
Damit reagieren wir auf den tagenden Hauptausschuss, der über geplante Kürzungen im Kulturetat des Berliner Haushalts verhandeln wird.
Wir stehen solidarisch zusammen! Wir lassen uns nicht in Verteilungskämpfe treiben! Setzen wir ein Zeichen für eine Stadt, die in ihre Kultur investiert, weil sie verstanden hat: Kultur ist in Berlin kein „nice to have“, sie ist das Herz der Stadt.
[#]BerlinIstKultur #BerlinIstKulturelleVielfalt #KulturabbauVerhindern
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
New #AR artwork by Alice Yuan Zhang on our #openAR platform (2024):
https://openar.art/a/rFWXQAgsRkxrTA8Z
Diatom Radio Network
2022
This piece imagines an underwater infrastructural ecology beyond the user-device binary of the early 21st century. Algae, humans, e-waste material, and surrounding species have evolved to learn a shared medium of communication. They mutually power, use, and embody the network-habitat. Information flows across an Indra’s net of neurotransmitter-like sites, a mechanism which depends on and gradually deepens the connectivity of all participating organisms.
https://aliceyuanzhang.com
=> View attached media | View attached media
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Recent 2024 #AR artworks by @khjeron on our #openAR platform:
https://openar.art/artworks
It is an artistic masterpiece that exists beyond the realms of painting or sculpture, sound or silence. As the Time Fold unfurls, it weaves the very fabric of reality itself.
Within this artistic enactment, the concept of 'worldmaking' serves as a guiding framework, fostering the creation of a plethora of imaginative scenarios that embrace a diversity of perspectives. Rooted in the ethos of embracing ambiguity, discomfort, and the spaces where knowledge remains elusive, the project challenges conventional notions.
If the visitors all are down there, then the whales may know and be peaceful good neighbors with them. Maybe, like Charamaynne studies dolphin language, all the visitors start trying to communicate with whales, dolphins and other animal intelligences.
"If you decide to let me in on your secret existence with a visit, please call ahead of time so I can brace myself for the honor of coffee, tea or so." says Charamaynne.
A fish elevation technician is a member of an alien civilization who abducts fishes at night. S/He impregnates the fishes with advanced technology. When a fish is impregnated by an elevation technician after its abduction, the technician remains motionless, but begins to shiver as soon as a new fish appears.
A small elevation incident happened.
The fragrance seller of Bhopal tries to take it upon themselves, which unfortunately creates additional problems.
Nothingness, they say, is their product. An intangible concept, a paradoxical notion, it is simultaneously the most elusive and sought-after commodity in the cosmos. In this age of boundless knowledge and limitless possibilities, it is the realm of Nothingness that intrigues and captivates the minds of the visitors.
↓↓↓
more: https://thevisitors.jeron.org
=> View attached media | View attached media | View attached media | View attached media
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
There are still a few copies of the catalogue available – contact us!
Alt Nets exhibition catalog with poster and digital extension (USB Stick) – with digital artworks commissioned for the occasion of the exhibition – and two essays by Adina Glickstein & Adina Glickstein (available also as PDFs):
Adina Glickstein
Death Spiraling [English, PDF]
http://downloads.panke.gallery/essays/glickstein-death-spiraling.pdf
Yvonne Volkart
Technologies between Soil and Sun [English, PDF]
http://downloads.panke.gallery/essays/volkart_technologies_en.pdf
Technologien zwischen Erde und Sonne [Deutsch, PDF]
http://downloads.panke.gallery/essays/volkart_technologien_de.pdf
These essays were published on the occasion of Alt Nets, an exhibition at @pankegallery
Design: Anna-Luise Lorenz
↓
Group show: Alt Nets
Curators: Noemi Garay & @sakrowski https://panke.gallery/exhibition/alt-nets
find.select.transform – Resilient Networks in a Wounded World
https://findselecttransform.world
The realization of the exhibition was made possible by funds from the #Hauptstadtkulturfonds
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
/rosa has a new home!
Dear friends and supporters, at the beginning of July this year, after more than two wonderful years full of exciting and inspiring events, exhibitions, presentations, workshops and meetings with artists and theorists, we left our /rosa project space at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
We're happy to announce, that from now on you can find us at Heidelberger Str. 28, between Neukölln and Alt-Treptow. See you there!
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin (Neukölln/Alt-Treptow)
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
➠ closing event at panke.gallery
Saturday, 19 October 2024
15:00 – 19:00
Curators' Tour: 16:30
Curators: Noemi Garay and @sakrowski
Collective Harvesting & Cooking with Matthias Fritsch: 17:00
We are pleased to invite you to the closing event of the group exhibition Alt Nets on 19 October, starting at 15:00!
Join us for a curators' tour of the exhibition, followed by a collective session of harvesting and cooking mushrooms grown from Matthias Fritsch's installation The Sporers, together with the artist.
Alt Nets – group exhibition with @abundance, @tegabrain / Benedetta Piantella / Alex Nathanson, @jamesbridle, Matthias Fritsch, @aliceyuanzhang, eeefff, Ursula Endlicher
https://panke.gallery/exhibition/alt-nets
The exhibition Atl Nets is part of find.select.transform – Resilient Networks in a Wounded World, a project which responds to the pressing social, ecological, and economic challenges of our time. It employs artistic positions to critically examine how current technological developments and organizational practices can contribute to a sustainable transformation of our society.
The project aims to highlight alternative strategies, aesthetic positions, and networks that challenge the conventional understanding of growth. In doing so, it emphasizes the role of art in narrating such developments and seeks ways to address power imbalances and extractivism.
The focus will be on artistic positions regarding the climate catastrophe and community networks that promote democratic participation and equality.
https://findselecttransform.world
The realization of the exhibition is made possible by funds from Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Last week of the group exhibition Alt Nets @pankegallery
https://panke.gallery/exhibition/alt-nets
➠ only until this Saturday, 19 October; open Wed–Sat, 3–7 pm
Artists:
@abundance, @tegabrain / Benedetta Piantella / Alex Nathanson, @jamesbridle, Matthias Fritsch, @aliceyuanzhang, eeefff, Ursula Endlicher
Curators: Noemi Garay and @sakrowski
Welcome!
↩
https://findselecttransform.world
find.select.transform – Resilient Networks in a Wounded World
The realization is made possible by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
!telepresencia – live concert | club | radio | recording sessions at panke.gallery & paredverde.gallery, 10 October 2024
https://panke.gallery/event/telepresencia
📷 Galya Feierman
➠ a planetary intervention between Europe and South America, urban and rural environments, the metropolis of Berlin and the hinterland of San Marcos Sierras in Argentina
Curated by Ulrike Gabriel and funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Part of https://findselecttransform.world – Resilient Networks in a Wounded World
More photos:
https://instagram.com/p/DBCQa9eIc2i
=> View attached media | View attached media | View attached media | View attached media
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
=> This profile with reblog | Go to pankegallery@tldr.nettime.org account This content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).Proxy Information
text/gemini
