AND... I recently saw Danja Vasiliev and Teresa Dillon present Superglue which adds in another layer to the mesh network tools - local servers, with webpage building tools. http://superglue.it/
Really looking forward to playing around with these (ideally with a group of other curious types) to see what it feels like, and what difference it makes to have your own server built into a plug, plugged in next to the kettle. I don't know if I am blowing their cover by saying that it seems to me that this is a stealth net artwork - masquerading as a startup company. On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 16:27 -0800, Rob Myers wrote: > On 09/11/14 PM, ruth catlow wrote: > > > > This is article from Adam Rothstein for Rhizome which sets out some > > of slippages that occur between the philosophy and material reality > > of distribution across networks, and points to a public mesh > > network workshop and exhibition coming out of Eyebeam that thinks > > about local networks as sites for art - nice! > > That's awesome. And yay Armin Medosch. > > Meshnets are one of those constantly just around the corner > technologies. The software and hardware are still being developed, and > even the mathematics is a challenge (how do we get a mesh *internet* > connecting local networks without simply swamping intermediate > conenctions or tying them back to the corporate cable backbones?). > > There's a lot of knowledge out there (I attended a meeting in > Vancouver recently where meshnet newbies were talking to a more > experienced meshnetter and finding out what the possibilities and > issues are), hopefully it will survive being theorised. ;-) > > > http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/nov/6/making-internet-local-mesh-network/ > > Occupy.here > > > was a Rhizome-sponsored project. It's similar to the > Piratebox. The little routers they use are very cheap, about 20 quid, > and it's a fun excercise to make a single-node wireless network. > > - Rob. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
