Dave Evans

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…

I will be presenting my research at Tate Exchange in Liverpool on Monday the 16th of January at 1pm. I’ll be talking about how asceticism can be a useful part of a digital practice. To get to this we need to look at how asceticism has been co-opted and altered to mean something else, something…

White Wizard has become a LAN project space and relocated to the frequency signal of 2437 mhz in the general location of Northern Lights, Cains Brewery Village, Grafton Street, Liverpool, L8 5SD. Look for a wireless SSID signal of ‘TheWhiteLizard’- like this: For more info go here

Asceticism is about desire, and specifically how you limit that desire. In relation to digital networks that might consist of making your own, albeit limited, network rather than plugging into the endless fruity possibilities of the www.  I decided to try to do this. After some research I decided the best way was to try…