Dave Evans

It was great to get the chance to present a paper, Inforegions – Creating Infrastructural Communities, at this years Radical Networks in NYC. I was mostly reflecting on the surprising direction that the artist’s residency at Edge Hill station had taken me and looked towards bioregionalism as a way of processing the realisation that our…

I came across these tiny Wi-Fi modules thanks to Brett Balogh’s Wilderness Wireless project presented at Radical Networks. During a residency at Signal Culture, during which I wanted to make a wearable network point, I had time to play with one. It took me a while to get started so I’m sharing my super basic…

I got to spend two weeks as a toolmaker resident at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. I spent the time working with flexible, waterproof solar panels, made by powerfilm, sewing them into a demin jacket, like a Battle Jacket, so they charge a lipo battery which in turn powers a pi zero, via…

For this project,  a captive portal at a train station, I needed to set up a raspberry pi so it can broadcast a wireless access point over a larger area than it can just with it’s own wireless adapter. It needed to do this without mains power. I couldn’t find anywhere online where this info…

I was happy to attend Theorizing the Web at The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. I presented a short paper ‘More is Not Less – Self Denial on the Internet ‘ on the Fiction, Fantasy and Faith panel. The paper works towards understanding how self denial works in relation to networked interactions.…

I delivered a paper at Aalborg University Copenhagen as part of E.V.A. (Electronics Visualisation and the Arts) Politics of the Machines – Art and After Conference. I was really excited to be part of a panel that really ranged across the possibilities of what art could be on the internet in an exciting way. The…

Edge Hill Station is a passenger rail station opened in 1836, making it the oldest passenger rail station in the world. It is now also home to METAL, an arts organisation. In January 2018 I began a residency in the station garden to build a local wireless network that broadcast out of the garden. I…

I spent a great weekend at Radical Networks listening to talks and attending workshops. I introduced my research into asceticism on the network too, you can see the talk here

During August I have been at Outlandia, an off-grid treehouse artist studio and field station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. During this period I wrote an essay, Art, Neo-Medievalism and Loyalty, and created a mountainside wireless network that showed a short film, Tribute.

As part of the drive to move into a more ascetic mode of operating on the internet I have moved my work to a server that I keep at home, on a shelf, in our living room. (Just writing these words ‘server’ and ‘living room’ in the same sentence makes me realise how far apart…