Routers were reprogrammed to act as offline, local streaming network points based off PirateBox. The wall mounts were laser cut and then assembled and wired by hand. Three different iterations of this project have been presented:
1.0 localhost: http:localhost@Satellite_Miami 🛰🏖
2.0 localhost: Spring Break Art Fair, NYC, 2020
3.0 localhost: Instituto Cervantes, NYC - the routers hosted work from artists from the Spanish-speaking and LatinX diasporas.
Routers, disconnected from the internet, stream animated .gifs, sounds, net.art, videos, and images curated under the following hashtags:
#caribbean_diaspora - art by, for, and about the carribean diasporic experience, especially localized in Miami.
#intersectional_cyberfeminism - from The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century: (“We are the virus of the new world disorder,” the manifesto reads, “rupturing the symbolic from within saboteurs of big daddy mainframe.”)
#deep_fakin'_it - deep fakes, bots, spoofs and spam: art & artifice on the Web.
#abundance - abundance > scarcity. We live and exist in a world of unlimited bandwidth. Scarcity and competition are obsolete. Artists can focus on supporting one another rather than on competition. The works included on this router explore themes of abundance, collective community building, mutual support and the results of our open call.
Connect: Each router broadcasts it’s own wifi address: ⚡️📲⚡️📲
connect to the WiFi signal on your phone like you would for any other WiFi network.
and then navigate to any URL like “satellite.com” to be redirected to the art.