The Consortium for Slower Internet, ‘Nodes’
Discarded consumer wifi routers.
The principles for Slower Internet:
– Duration
– Defamiliarization
– Autonomy
– Divergence
Tag Archives: abandoned
Pavel Sterec
Pavel Sterec, ‘I don’t believe in past lives’ (2008)
Series of photographs of dead ends of tunnels inside a mine in Pribyslav, established by prospectors’ mistake. After the mine had been worked on for about 10 years, nothing had been found and the mine was left abandoned.
Michael Robinson
Michael Robinson, ‘Victory over the sun’ (2007)
Dormant sites of past World’s Fairs breed an eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure.
Luis Galán García & Daniel Fernández Pascual
Luis Galán García & Daniel Fernández Pascual, ‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ (2010)
After a decade of unprecedented real estate development, Madrid starts to deal with its contemporary ruins: on one hand, more than 47,000 empty apartments wait for a first buyer (Asprima report/Dec.2009), and on the other, hundreds of kilometres of perfectly paved streets run between eerie blocks, waiting for a first construction on their sides.
‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ is an on-going photo-reportage of these frozen in time areas of development. Can they become the natural protected areas of the future?
Leopold Kessler
Leopold Kessler, ‘Ghost terrace’ (2009)
A terrace, without service or gastronomy, placed in the city center of Frankfurt.
Craig Leonard
‘Obsolete Concepts (Antiprobabilism)’ (2004) by Craig Leonard.
From a series of prints pointing to obsolete concepts, as categorized by the Oxford English Dictionary, in the word’s last known site of publication.
Fabriek, Rotterdam 28 08 09
Last Friday I had a chance to look around in the old abandoned neon-factory De Fabriek in Rotterdam. It was squatted until Summer ’08 and used as a studio-building by the squatters.
