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<!doctype html><html lang=en xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml><head><meta charset=UTF-8><meta name=description><meta content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" name=viewport><meta content=#9a9996 name=theme-color><title>aethercomms - Aron Petau</title><link href=https://aron.petau.net/pages/aethercomms/ rel=canonical><link href=https://aron.petau.net/favicon.png rel=icon type=image/png><link href=https://aron.petau.net/apple-touch-icon.png rel=apple-touch-icon sizes=180x180 type=image/png><link title="Aron Petau - RSS Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/rss.xml rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml><link title="Aron Petau - Atom Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/atom.xml rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml><style>:root{--accent-color:#6f8396}</style><link href=https://aron.petau.net/style.css rel=stylesheet><link href=https://aron.petau.net/syntax-theme.css rel=stylesheet><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/closable.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/fuse.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/search-fuse.js></script><meta content="Aron Petau" property=og:site_name><meta content="aethercomms - Aron Petau" property=og:title><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/pages/aethercomms/ property=og:url><meta property=og:description><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/card.png property=og:image><meta content=en_US property=og:locale><body><main id=main-content><h1>aethercomms</h1><h2 id=aethercomms><a aria-label="Anchor link for: aethercomms" class=zola-anchor href=#aethercomms>AetherComms</a></h2><p>Studio Work Documentation<br> A Project by Aron Petau and Joel Tenenberg.<h3 id=abstract><a aria-label="Anchor link for: abstract" class=zola-anchor href=#abstract>Abstract</a></h3><blockquote><p>Set in 2504, this fiction explores the causalities of a global infrastructure collapse through the perspectives of diverse characters. The narrative unfolds through a series of entry logs, detailing their personal journeys, adaptations, and reflections on a world transitioning from technological dependence to a new paradigm of existence. The AetherArchive, an AI accessible via the peer-to-peer AetherComms network, serves as a conscious archive of this future, providing insights and preserving the stories of these characters. Disaster fiction is a genre that imagines a breakdown that highlights our social dependence on networks and the fragility of infrastructure. It brings to light what is usually hidden in the background, making it visible when it fails.</blockquote><p>This is the documentation of our year-long studio project at the University of the Arts and the Technische Universität Berlin, exploring the power structures inherent in radio technology, the internet as network of networks and the implications of a global network infrastructure collapse. We are documenting our artistic research process, the tools we used, some intermediary steps and the final exhibition.<h3 id=process><a aria-label="Anchor link for: process" class=zola-anchor href=#process>Process</a></h3><p>We met 2 to 3 times weekly throughout the entire year, here is a short overview of our process and findings throughout.<h4 id=semester-1><a aria-label="Anchor link for: semester-1" class=zola-anchor href=#semester-1>Semester 1</a></h4><h5 id=research-questions><a aria-label="Anchor link for: research-questions" class=zola-anchor href=#research-questions>Research Questions</a></h5><p>Here, we already examined the power structures inherent in radio broadcasting technology. Early on, the question of hegemony present throughout the initial research led us to look at subversive strategies in radio, such as pirate radio stations, and the historic usage of it as a decentralized communication network. Radio is deeply connected with military and state power structures, examples being the Nazi-German <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger>Volksempfänger</a> or the US-american <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty>Radio Liberty</a> Project, and we explored the potential of radio as a t
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