ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂ ☀ ⏻ ▤⟶ Islands of Conviviality
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ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂
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⟶ Islands of ConvivialityISSA 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.
⏻ 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.
→ ☾ → 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.#SolarProtocol #ISSA #Vis #OffGrid #OpenWrt
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ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂
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⟶ Islands of ConvivialityISSA 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.
⏻ 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.
→ ☾ → 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.#SolarProtocol #ISSA #Vis #OffGrid #OpenWrt
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Islands of Conviviality
⟶ 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.2/X
#IslandsOfConviviality #ToolsForAutonomy #Illich #ISSA #SolarProtocol
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ISSA – Tools for Autonomy ⌂
⏻ ▤
⟶ Islands of ConvivialityISSA 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.
⏻ 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.
→ ☾ → 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.#SolarProtocol #ISSA #Vis #OffGrid #OpenWrt
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