[spectre] New publication: Handmade Networks by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré

[Marcela Okretič]

 Dear friends,
we are happy to announce a new publication:

*Handmade Networks*
*by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré*
https://aksioma.org/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.

With additional contributions by curator and researcher *Bani Brusadin* and
Cuban sci-fi writer *Erick J. Mota*.

*PREORDER with discounted price: *
https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks

The book will be released on 10 July 2024.

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CREDITS

*Handmade Networks*
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

Contributors: Bani Brusadin, Erick J. Mota, Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

Editor: Janez Fakin Janša
Editorial assistant: Rok Kranjc
Copyediting: Miha Šuštar
Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin

Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<https://aksioma.org/>
Ljubljana, 2024

*The research for and publication of this book were generously funded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation),
project number 428086777.*


Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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