Saturday, 06 September 2025 17:30 CEST

As part of the week long STWST84x11 Fog Manifesto: Flooding the Zone with Fog event, Davide Bevilacqua from servus.at and Stadtwerkstatt invite you to a Book presentation of The Rise of the Network Commons @ Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz, Austria.

On 02/09/2025 09:55, davide bevilacqua via nettime-l wrote: […]

The conversation takes place within the program of the STWST84x11, a festival organized by Stadtwerkstatt running in parallel to the Ars Electronica in Linz. […]

As the book began being presented a few months already, we would like to use it to have a conversation that follows the structure of the book. From the concept and the operational setups to wider socio-techno-political aspects, critique, and utopia vs reality entanglements. We’ll discuss how the idea of network commons can be helpful to survey current practices of self-hosted infrastructure and the tension with corporate tech.

As initiative that were long time in contact with Armin and where his thought and work strongly resonates, Stadtwerkstatt and servus.at will host the presentation. These are also some places where newer generations of media artists are getting active and that might encounter Armin’s work for the first time. We will therefore try to go back again the question of future legacy that was asked by Shu Lea Cheang in the 2017 tribute – https://cba.media/349549 – when was perhaps still early to see a trajectory.

Would be lovely to see and hear your thoughts Best wishes servus.at & stadtwerkstatt Linz

Thanks to:

Volker Grassmuck and Adam Burns for editing Armin’s final publication.

Geert Lovink, Ruben Stoffelen and Katja van Stiphout at Institute of Network Cultures for publishing it.