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A redesign of Low-Tech Magazine blog to imagine what a ‘Low-Tech Website’ could be.

I was invited by Constant VZW to help document the “etherbox” and its legacy of shared experimental network and publishing practices.

Documentation for a worksession with Daniel Gultsch on Conversations

When it comes to the internet, geoip won’t help us really understand where we are, or help us understand where in the diagram of the power relations we are.

overview of the presentation The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual international convention for the discussion of F/LOSS used with graphics.

Welcome To The � Federation was a research project that sought to understand how knowledge and skills from communities in the arts and design can contribute to the creation of alternative digital ecosystems based on open standards and federation.

On the 27th and 28th of October Dennis de Bel and me organized a cantenna crafting workshop.

Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi was exhibited at the exhibition “Materialising the Internet” in MU Eindhoven.

A summer school with as many students as teachers, this time in Rotterdam

The spacekeet (“space shack”, in Dutch, pronounced something like “space kate”) was a mobile DIY satellite ground station located on the campus of the Utrecht Science Park.

A close reading of the process of implementing emoji modifiers in 2015, published in Data Browser 6

a simple example of the short diversions one can take from the uniformed experience of internetworked telecommunications, to remind ourselves of the material conditions and the power relations that are implicated in each and every use of the Internet.

A pair of sketches made during research which I like too much to hide away

Exibition of photoreportages made during a anthropologic fieldwork in Lima

a two-day intensive workshop at KiK to introduce and open up a relatively new set of open-source tools; SDR (Software defined radio) to new audiences.

A practical workshop reflecting on the relation between the infrastructure, the protocols and the narratives of the internet.

image from TR52 The comment on Unicode’s Technical Report 52, which was the result of a workshop in Arhus with Femke Snelting and Peggy Pierrot got republished in the 7th Immaterial Labor Union Zine.

This text is an offshoot of a period of research on an obsolete network protocol, X.25, which was taken as a technical object of comparison to study the ways in which contemporary Internetworking works.

RF workshop at de Waag during HDSA 2016

A script that generates all Unicode code points and prints them to stdout.

Exhibition at a design festival in Zagreb, Croatia

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quickly build websites by throwing files in folders, take two

An semi-naive business trip to manufacture an impossible phone in China becomes an exploration of material culture and informal tech economies.

On the 14th of February 2016 I partook in the discussion Software as a Critique organized by the good folks at laglab.org.

packet radio setup Together with Dennis de Bel I was invited to join the Off The Cloud Zone, a gathering of practicioners and researesearchers engaged with different networks during Transmediale 2016.

Part showcase, part recipebook, this publication is a blog-like overview of works by Dennis de Bel and Roel Roscam Abbing.

A guided bustour of internet infrastructure in Eemshaven

A simple recipe to make your own Double-Irish-Dutch Sandwich, a yummy Dutch accounting classic!

a zine on how to make internet connections with walkie-talkies

an attempt to brew something using a corn variety cultivated for its size not its flavour

a practical workshop on doing TCP/IP over UHF and what those acronyms mean

a summerschool with as many teachers as participants

in the context of workshop that never happened, Dennis and me got interviewed about our radio experiments

Invitation for the Infrastructour INFRASTRUCTOURS was a guided bus tour to internet infrastructure in the north of the Netherlands.

Pretty Fly For A Wifi revisits the histories, origins and uses of self-made Wi-fi antennas.

Combining OpenWRT, Unitary Urbanism, TP-LINK routers, Silicone, Maizena, Gouache, 9V Batteries, Fake Rock Solar Panels as its unlikely ingredients, Unitary Networking looks at the relationship between power and infrastructures, how to challenge hierarchies

a mesh-networking-delay-tolerant-more-than-human-protoype bonanza

Ethernet spot in portrait mode, the CAT5 cables sticking out make it look like an octopus GIF animation showing a rotating model of the ethernet spot The Free Ethernet spot is a site specific public internet service located in Wunderbar Rotterdam.

quickly build websites by throwing files in folders

a script that uses favicons to create ransome notes, readable by humans, less so by machines

Using public sources to map and the use of military technology over the Netherlands

a browser extension that helps trace your data across the globe

Bibliotecha is a framework to facilitate the local distribution of digital publications within a small community.

Telewar zine An artistic research project done in collaboration with Micha Prinsen and Dave Young that took place during a three week residency at Upominki Rotterdam.

Open Drugs is a database intervention, concluding an investigation into what people might find to be the ’limits’ of open-sourcing.