Dear friends, we are happy to announce a new publication: *Handmade Networks* *by Steffen Köhn and Nestor Siré* https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks
*Handmade Networks* 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. With additional contributions by curator and researcher *Bani Brusadin* and Cuban sci-fi writer *Erick J. Mota*. *PREORDER with discounted price: * https://aksioma.org/handmade-networks The book will be released on 10 July 2024. ----- CREDITS *Handmade Networks* Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré Contributors: Bani Brusadin, Erick J. Mota, Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré Editor: Janez Fakin Janša Editorial assistant: Rok Kranjc Copyediting: Miha Šuštar Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana <https://aksioma.org/> Ljubljana, 2024 *The research for and publication of this book were generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 428086777.* Marcela Okretič Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana www.aksioma.org
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