Alternative community-based data distribution networks on the local scale have emerged in Cuba as a consequence of the economic sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades. German anthropologist Steffen Köhn and Cuban media artist Nestor Siré shed light on the unique materiality and significance of these networks, built to overcome the limitations of internet access in Cuba. In the current capitalist, consumerist form of internet, characterised by closed platforms, we are fed content chosen for us by algorithms, whereas informal infrastructures allow their users, makers and content creators to be the protagonists of their own choices – and allow us to envision decentralised, non-commercial and collective interactions on the web.

COLOPHON

Host: Neja Berger

Guest: Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

Recording and editing: Neja Berger

Audio Mix: Staš Kramar

Music: Gašper Torkar

Scale podcast series

Curated by Janez Fakin Janša

Produced by Marcela Okretič

for Tactics&Practice#14: Scale

Production:

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art

Ljubljana, 2023

Part of

Tactics&Practice

konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art