Perform the internet

Request

Please do not rate this group and its meetups. Ratings discourage experimentation free of judgment. If you want to rate, always rate zero stars. Thanks.

Fun description

(Serious description far below. Do NOT read it.)

I'm so bored with diagrams in books about internet networking and protocols! They're all like little boxes and arrows pointing to other boxes and stiff little computers and what is that thing that's a circle with an X in it? That's a server? What the hell? WHAT.

Can't a data packet be a weird little goblin cat or something? What if protocols like HTTP were mad wizards or immigration trolls or netherworld postal service hell elves? Internet service providers (ISP) could be like Richard Scarry's Busy Town Hall or Adventure Time's Nightosphere. Who knows! Are we human or are we server?

The internet is so awesome, why do engineers make it soooooo boooooring????? I will never forgive them!!!

Perform it!

We can draw, make music, stage a play, whatever. Internetworking is rich with narrative promise. Have fun with it!

The general agenda is I will tell you something about the internet, then it's free-form exploration. We can ask questions and look things up together. I don't have all the answers.

Why

Fun way to learn about t3h w3bz under the hood?

I've tried this before in various venues, mostly Cyklopen and art studios, and it's always been fun. So I want to develop this further, but now at a pace and space I'm comfortable with because I have special needs.

Important notes

You don't need to know anything about the internet and stuff to join. I can tell you a bit about it. If we don't know something, we'll look it up. 😊

I'm making this whole thing up as I go along so I don't know what will happen and how it goes. I don't even know if it will be fun or horrible. It's an experiment!

Venue

Noisy and crowded environments affect me very badly and I have not been able to find quiet and calm enough spaces in Stockholm to accommodate my needs. And I need walls to stick sheets on. So it will be mostly my place unless someone is kind enough to host.

I will set the location in events at Nockeby Torg but that is NOT where it is. But it is 5 min away. You must write me privately to let me know if you really, really, really want to come and I will tell you the address.

Serious description

This project is part of my new media art practice that explores the phenomenology of chthonic infrastructures such as the internet and probability. Apart from heavy reading and participant observation, my method of choice has been the relational aesthetics of the workshop to inject rare liveliness into an otherwise solitary undertaking and to lay claim to a bit of scicomm.

Did your eyes glaze over and your brain fall asleep? Well, it's your own fault. I told you not to read this!