[spectre] The Myth of Bolshevik

[Armin Medosch]

In Memory of Franz Feigl
The Myth of Bolshevik


Network activists and friends of the medien.KUNSTLABOR http://www.kunstlabor.at/ 
want to travel by boat from Amsterdam to the Black Sea. Final destination of the 
journey is the island St.Anastasia, formerly known as Bolshevik (1945 - 1990) 
http://ostrov.mur.at/ . The boat is named after Franz Feigl, an Austrian artist and 
network activist who lived in Amsterdam and died in 2001 at a young age. 

The boat will record on its journey all open wireless lan access points. This activity, 
if conducted by car, is called war-driving. The peaceful goals of the Motorship Franz 
Feigl aim at highlighting the possibility of opening up networks and creating a free 
infrastructure (see Funkfeuer http://www.funkfeuer.at/, Freifunk http://freifunk.net/ , 
Consume http://consume.net/). 

The boat will also communicate via packet radio and pictures will regularly be sent 
by GPRS to http://stroem.ung.at 

MS Franz Feigl has already travelled from Amsterdam via Linz to Vienna. In Linz at 
the wharf of the Times Up http://www.timesup.org/ collective repair work on the boat 
was done. It has travelled safely from Linz to Vienna under captainship of Franz 
Xaver. 

Tomorrow, Wednesday August 9, the MS Franz Feigl is due to leave for Bratislava, 
where it will arrive om Thursday or Friday. On Monday, August 15, it will arrive in 
Budapest. 

The project is carried out in collaboration with 05-trov http://i-
space.org/wiki/index.php/05trov_BOLSHEVIK   
and mobil.KUNSTLABOR.at 


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