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<p><em>Handmade Networks</em> 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.</p>
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<p>The book, published by <a href="https://aksioma.org/">Aksioma</a>
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.</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.panke.gallery/event/steffen-koehn-and-nestor-sire-handmade-networks/">https://www.panke.gallery/event/steffen-koehn-and-nestor-sire-handmade-networks/</a><br>
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