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.
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