[Berlin-wireless] FYI: Handmade Networks @ panke.gallery, 29 January 2025, 19:00 – 21:30

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/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.

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The book, published by Aksioma <https://aksioma.org/> in 2024, opens 
with an essay by Cuban science fiction writer Erick J. Mota and closes 
with a conversation between educator and researcher Bani Brusadin and 
the artists.



https://www.panke.gallery/event/steffen-koehn-and-nestor-sire-handmade-networks/
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