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Careful Networks
TPG
2021-10
Careful Networks is a project that follows the principles of coding to care and coding carefully from the Distributed Web of Care initiative.
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A cluster of screenshots of bugs and microprocessors

Interview with Joana Moll
Marloes de Valk Joana Moll
2021-10
Joana Moll and Marloes de Valk discuss Joana’s project 4004, commissioned in 2021. Digging into the infrastructures at the heart of today’s digital technology, they discuss the role of art in the transition to a less polluting society.
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Collage of messages and images posted by telegran users in the channel dondehayenlahabana by nestor sire and steffen kohn

Basic Necessities
Steffen Köhn Nestor Sire
2021-10
This website documents Basic Necessities, an online commission by Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn on view on the Media Wall and unthinking.photography from 14 October 2021 to 10 January 2022.
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4004
Joana Moll
2021-07
4004 creates a link between the explosion of techno-capitalism, the acceleration of climate change and resulting decline of essential ecosystems.
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Interview with Nestor Siré [Part I]
Marloes de Valk Nestor Sire
2020-12
Nestor Siré and Marloes de Valk discuss Nestor’s artistic practice and how he has engaged with the development of alternative networks that arose in Cuba, from book rental shops to El Paquete Semanal and SNET, the Wi-Fi mesh network run by gamers.
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Interview with Nestor Siré [Part II]
Marloes de Valk Nestor Sire
2020-12
This is part two of a conversation between Nestor Siré and Marloes de Valk.
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