Content Form:APRJA 13 Mateus Domingos

Mateus Domingos

A case for small scale wifi experimentation

Abstract

In this essay I describe an experimental wifi network SideBand which provided access to a simple message-board during the Content/Form workshop. This is considered in relation to the collaborative infrastructure ServPub that was carefully assembled and maintained for the production of the newspaper. The production of the hardware and software required for the SideBand network is described with specific consideration of the types of memory and data storage systems that are utilised. The programming that provided message-board (and wider) functionality is also described. The conditions of this production along with the specific ways in which use of the network unfolds are considered in relation to Dunbar-Hester’s propagation and a Luddite framing, that includes sabotage and refusal. This is argued as producing other ways of understanding infrastructure and place, related to the feminist methodologies of ServPub.

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Biography

Mateus Domingos is a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University. His research explores the history of the Luddites and the computational technologies used within activist arts practices today. He is based in Leicester, where he works as an art technician and is a member of artist-run Two Queens. ORCID id: 0009-0001-1268-189X