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cables & protocols

play & experiments

Cables & Protocols

artworks, workshops and publications on network structures

A closeup shows parts of the work Yarn and Wires. The work consists of a canvas with a print of two streets captured through the Satellite view mode of Google Maps with all internet and electricity cables visible in these streets stitched atop. The Map view is overlayed with photographs of what the streets look like, showing for example a house, a wall with a tree behind, and a tree photographed from below. The red yarn is stitched across the fabric, coming in and out at different positions, some of them near roofs, trees and electricity poles. The work was photographed while it was moved by the wind, and the lower edge is captured while it is wavy.

Sticky Networks

BangaloREsidency, website & exhibition

A photo shows the crown of a tree. Amidst the branches, internet and electricity cables form what looks like a nest. The chaos of the cables is surrounded by the green of the leafs.

Writing Telegrams to Fungi, Sending Bytes Across Trees

BangaloREsidency, network walk

A screenshot shows the 3D model of a rectangular circuit board with distinct but connected regions on its surface. On the left upper corner the words "Cached Resources" are written on the board, whereas the left corner reads "Chat Room". Between these areas and electronic components, workshop participants move as LEDs.

B[ORDERS]

playful web space & workshop week

A bright net is photographed from the side, with yellow, red, and blue yarn woven in and out of the grid. The different strings form nodes in positions where many strings meet. Close to the camera, there is a big heap of yellow yarn on the floor with many strings reaching back into the net.

Code Layers Infrastructures

physical game and workshop

On a galaxy desktop background, two terminal windows are open. On the left window there is code and some of the commands read: 'underground', 'secretplaces', and 'large openings'. On the right side is another terminal which says at the top 'UNDERGROUND' in all capital letters. Hung ontop of the screen is an evil eye on a pink string.

Re:Coding Algorithmic Culture

design research, website, labs – research project at the School of Art and Design Kassel

In a large industrial exhibition space, phones are hanging from the ceiling and dangling above low stools made from cardboard. The stools are arranged in groups atop grids made from tape on the floor. The group in the front right has the term Digitalwirtschaft printed on the floor, and stools that have europäische Unternehmen and US Unternehmen written on them. On wall behind these stools, a video is projected onto the wall.

Privacy Arena

exhibition and publication – research project at Kassel University