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<div>Dear friends,</div><div>we are happy to announce a new publication:<br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Handmade Networks</b></div><b>by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré</b><div><a href="https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks">https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks</a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Handmade Networks</i> presents a body of research-based artworks by <b>Steffen Köhn</b> and <b>Nestor Siré</b>.
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.<br><br>With additional contributions by curator and researcher <b>Bani Brusadin</b> and Cuban sci-fi writer <b>Erick J. Mota</b>.</div><div><br><b>PREORDER with discounted price: </b></div><div><a href="https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks" target="_blank">https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks</a></div><div><br></div><div>The book will be released on 10 July 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>-----</div><div><br></div><div>CREDITS</div><div><br><i>Handmade Networks</i><br>Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré<br><br>Contributors: Bani Brusadin, Erick J. Mota, Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré<br><br>Editor: Janez Fakin Janša<br>Editorial assistant: Rok Kranjc<br>Copyediting: Miha Šuštar<br>Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin<br><br>Published by: <a href="https://aksioma.org/" target="_blank">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</a><br>Ljubljana, 2024<br><br><i>The
research for and publication of this book were generously funded by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation),
project number 428086777.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Marcela Okretič</div><div>Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</div><div><a href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>