Michael Dieter via nettime-l on Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:46:00 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> SAN Archipelago @ transmediale 2026


SAN Archipelago is a dispersed studio-chain at transmediale 2026:
chroma-green islands in Krakow, Kyiv, Budapest, Warwick, Leeds, Munich and
Vilnius, linked by converging streams and shared currents. Emerging from
anti-war webcasts and solidarity media actions, StreamArtNetwork (SAN)
operates as a low-budget, high-intensity carrier-net for collective
presence across borders, territories and time-zones. Thinking with
archipelago-drift, SAN leans into highly distributed, translocal
communication: many shores, no centre; relation without consolidation.

Throughout the festival, SAN Archipelago appears as a chill-ready, shaded
locality where visitors can drift in and out of live-streamed interviews,
discussions and performances. The program will be conducted by 19
shapeshifters: streamers, hackers, apprentices, hosts, performers, writers
and weavers. In the shadows of late platformism, we prototype different
modes of togetherness: circular, collage-like, modular practices that keep
re-writing pixels and data in multidirectional, real-time transmissions. We
return to the problem of sovereign media, breaking with influencer metrics,
market logics and audiencing. We don’t scale, we connect.

We treat the program not as a fixed monument to planning, but as a map with
space for spontaneity. Expect detours. Streaming is flowing, floating,
drifting, soothing, levitating, hovering. It is perpetually unfinished,
teetering between anarchy and democracy. We are not hybrid enough. Come
over and cause a detour. All welcome!

https://san-archipelago.super.site/
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