<![CDATA[ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂ ☀ ⏻ ▤⟶ Islands of Conviviality]]>ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂ ☀ ⏻ ▤
⟶ Islands of Conviviality

ISSA sits off-grid on the island of Vis: no roads, just a footpath. When we started there was no electricity, no water mains, and only a weak mobile signal.

⟟ Two years ago, with ISSA festival participants, we walked the hill with a big wifi antenna on a stick, hunting for 4G. ISSA itself is in a blind spot. ☀

Last year solar went up, giving us stable electricity, plus a rainwater system with a fog catcher.

https://issa-school.org/

⏻ This year we finally got online: a 4G solar-powered router 300 m below ISSA, relaying the signal uphill ↑ to the library. At the library, a solar-powered mini computer ▤ is waiting to join the Solar Protocol, a planetary network of solar-powered web servers run by artists Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella.

https://solarprotocol.net

☀ → ☾ → ☀ Our server only runs when the sun shines; when it goes dark, another node in sunlight takes over. Every request is routed to wherever on the planet has the most light. Our little island is now part of a network that runs on weather.

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⛵ This week we're part of Islands of Conviviality, a research procession sailing from Split → Brač → Hvar → Vis for the 100th birthday of Ivan Illich, who asked: what if tools served people, instead of the other way around? Illich's family were from Brač.

https://issa-school.org/islands-of-conviviality-2026/

On Monday, September 7, the procession lands on Vis and ISSA hosts a day of talks, workshops, work actions and cooking together.

Keynote by @hito Steyerl: "Another Battle for Kordun: generative AI, flexible realism and the Pantheon data centre in Topusko." An always-on facility landing in a small Croatian town, absorbing land, power and water for generative AI, with decisions and profits located elsewhere. The opposite of what we're trying on this hill.

⌨ Our workshop, Tools for Autonomy, with Gordan Savičić @gordo, Felix Stalder @festal and us: hands-on with our solar infrastructure, networked "social" autonomy, and why technology doesn't need to be on all the time. Sharing tools for an intermittent internet, a diurnal digitality. What infrastructures of autonomy might look like against a world of enshittified platforms, mega data centers and proprietary clouds. If all goes well, we go live on the Solar Protocol right there.

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