We are excited to announce three commissions to be developed within the scope of our European The New Networked Normal partnership. The projects revolve around extraterritorial spaces, future forms of the internet, and algorithmic citizenship and will be presented on the nnn.freeport.global platform with events taking place in each of the partner cities over the next six months.

 
Geocinema
by Asia Bazdyrieva, Alexey Orlov, Solveig Suess
Geocinema: Framing Territories considers planetary-scale sensory networks—the orbital bands of satellites, geosensing arrays, surveillance cameras, and billions of cell phones—as a vastly distributed cinematic apparatus. Using China’s Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) as research point, the project will make a series of cinematic investigations across various geographies, contexts, and temporalities. Filming a series of interviews, archival materials, set-ups, models, and imaginings, they will examine infrastructures of data as forms of cinema.

 
Networks of Trust
by Kyriaki Goni
Using the Aegean archipelago as a model for a decentralized future, Kyriaki Goni explores connections between the Aegean’s dense networks and technologies such as IPFS. Networks of Trust will build a collective narrative working with island residents, challenging centralization of infrastructure, information, and governance by activating users’ devices and the islands’ landscapes.

 
CryptoRave – RaveEnabler
by !Mediengruppe Bitnik + Omsk Social Club
CryptoRave is a utopian gesture to adopt and experiment with blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and DAO to support and power a subculture. It tests blockchain technology as a means to structure and put value into networks through mining of cryptocurrency online by participants, combined with Live Action Role Play (LARP) / Real Game Play (RGP) clubnight events. Through the RaveEnabler (a website with an embedded Monero (XMR) miner), the CryptoRave community not only experiments with the use of crypto mining as a sustainable method to fund CryptoRave events, but also uses a layer of RGP to provide unique roles to the participants.

 
The New Networked Normal explores art, technology, and citizenship in the age of the Internet. A partnership project by Abandon Normal Devices (UK), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) (ES), The Influencers (ES), transmediale (DE) and STRP (NL), co-funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme.