Comp-Host-ing our Phones

Nowadays, we often hear about the 'cloud' as a way to describe the online services that we access daily, such as emails, social media, data storage, video-streaming, AI chatbots, et cetera. But what does the Internet really look like behind this fog screen?

Starting from our most intimate and familiar device—the smartphone—this workshop aims to explore the material infrastructure that supports our online lives. In practice, you learn how to repurpose discarded smartphones into servers that host a simple webpage. This practice helps you to imagine other ways of building an Internet, one that places autonomy, reuse, and planetary limits at the forefront

The workshop will be led by Marie Verdeil.

Comp-Host-ing our Phones was developed by Marie Verdeil, in collaboration with Rein van der Woerd, and with the support of Creative Coding Utrecht (creativecodingutrecht.nl).

Practical info

This workshop is accessible to a non technical audience. If you can, please bring an older/unused Android phone to repurpose (we will also have some). You can also bring your computer.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Ground floor of V2_Lab for the Unstable Media

Entrance: free

Maximum participants: 12

To inscribe please drop an email to fenna@v2.nl

In the evening there will be a short presentation with the results of the workshop as part of The Evening of the Alex Adriaansens Residency.

This workshop is organized as part of Katazyna Jankovska's Alex Adriaansens Residency at V2_.