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/ -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
