Network Cultures

M2M Am*dam radio

Look with us. Not at us.
M2M means from Migrant to Migrant.
M2M is a meeting point for migrants.
Like a camp fire.
Every migrant has a story, a message.
Every migrant is a messenger
between there and here and here and there..
Every migrant is a medium.

Bricolabs

A global platform to investigate the new loop of open content, software and hardware for community applications, bringing people together with new technologies and distributed connectivity, unlike the dominant focus of IT industry on security, surveillance and monopoly of information and infrastructures.

Streamtime / Tigris Project

Free Flow From Baghdad
Reclaiming the River

The Tigris is much more than just a streaming river: it is a cradle of civilisation, a stream of water for fishing, swimming, drinking, irrigation and dumping, hiding and shaving.
And it may be a vehicle for anybody's imagination.

Idiki / a Wiki of Ideas

Everyone can add an idea and the record will be kept, while it will be free to be improved and extended, developing an history and preserving its freedom.
Panta Rei on the fluid flow of information.
Idiki is the union of the word "idea" with "wiki", which is also a Basque word: it means to expose.

Gallery Exhibitions

Speaking Out Loud!

The artworks in the exhibition deal with the act of speaking, reading and writing. They particularly reflect on and emphasise the performative qualities of language and thus reveal the strong and inseparable connection between words' meaning and their performance/performer.
In this fluid state, words fly and dance, thus enabling a mental dialogue between the artwork and its viewer/listener, and opening up to continuous interpretation.

Exhibited in the NIMK (2008).
free downloadable texts from the catalogue inside

I LOVE YOU

In a society of communication and information the dealing with computer viruses belongs to every day digital life. I LOVE YOU explores computer virus history, its technical development, a visualisation of hidden processes and the aesthetic dimension of computer viruses.

Exhibited in the Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt, Post & Tele Museum Copenhagen, Brown University - Watson Institute Providence (USA), Belef Cultural Center Beograd, Kuda New Media Center Novi Sad.
free downloadable texts from the catalogue inside

Connessioni Leggendarie

The first exhibition devoted to NET.ART history. Referring to a wide audience it reviews the years from 1995 to 2005; during this decade, artists separated by geographical and socio-political barriers shared ideas and artworks, using them as creative weapons over a new and unique continent: the Internet.
(website temporarily down, we are sorry for the inconvenience!)

Download the exhibition catalogue

Live Performance

TUBOCATODICO

Audio and video theatrical performance about mediatic control - interferencing on the mainstream TUBE infofeed - don't let doctor Benaway exploit your mind, who's not yet a thanatoid needs to rebel :: exorcize your evil household appliance

free downloadable video, audio and images

the Mitocondri

a programming sourcecode written in C language defines iterations and logics flowing with a certain pattern; musical composition as well.
a different notation means a different execution (multiple, if considered that the code can be executed on a computer ...): thru the algorithms variable names inspire the modality of musicians execution, crossing the borders between codepoetry and musical scores - sourcescore

free downloadable audio and images inside

Literature

"Ambient intelligence" promises to create a global network of physical objects every bit as pervasive and ubiquitous as the worldwide web itself. Some are already calling this controversial network the "internet of things", describing it as either the ultimate convenience in supply-chain management, or the ultimate tool in our future surveillance. This network has the power to reshape our cities and yet it is being built with little public knowledge of consent...

A constructive look on the boundaries of intellectual property, as well as new and open forms of collaboration, not only situated in an academic and industrial context, but in musical and artistic spheres as well.
Includes the Roots cultures chapter explaining pretty well our approach to technology and our motivations.

Internet, hackers y software libre -

Argentinian collective Editora Fantasma writes about the history of free software and net culture.

Este libro de entrevistas a los piratas informáticos de todo el mundo, Richard Stallman incluidos y nuestra hyper-hacktive bohemien digital Jaromil con su forkbomb shell.

Networking
The Net as an Artwork

The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.

NET.ART - L'arte della connessione

An italian book overviewing the panorama of NET.ART worldwide. NET.ART is a form of art born between the inheritance of the avangardes and technological innovation, constituted of highly hibridated practices experimenting with code as well with comunication and diversity.

Craft

Handcraft computers made in wood

Are you tired about plastic shells ? Do you dream about a real wooden laptop, handmade using ancient woods, and all natural materials? What they have in common shamanism and technology?