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3D object in a rocky, asteroid formation, on a blurry background displaying the word “abundance” on its surface.

Communities
Srujana Katta
2023-10
Srujana Katta considers how Community artefacts as shown through an ephemeral piece of daily life: the screenshot
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A pixellated screenshot of an island with rocks, dolphins, buildings, fields and digital artefacts throughout the space

World Imagining Game
Benjamin Hall Frances Lingard
2023-06
The World Imagining Game invites you to play through the lifecycle of new virtual worlds from creation to culmination.
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When I image the earth, I imagine another
open-weather
2021-11
On the first day of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, a network of people operating DIY satellite ground stations around the world will capture a collective snapshot of the Earth.
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A collection of nine images in a grid that all include aliens

Aesthetics Wiki
TPG
2023-09
This wiki is a comprehensive encyclopedia of online and offline aesthetics! Made by a community dedicated to the identification, observation, and documentation of visual schemata. This page is for …
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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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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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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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