homeLAN is a collective hands-on exploration of physical internet infrastructure through LAN gaming, reclaiming digital space from extractive economies and opaque metaphors.

The cloud as metaphor obscures the physical reality of the internet: understanding how local area networks work through collective building and playing can be liberating. homeLAN is an educational and community event that re-grounds digital infrastructure through hands-on exploration of Ethernet and traditional switches. The nervous system twitch has made its way too far from its evolutionary roots. In the face of pay-to-play and play-to-earn economies, homeLAN reclaims what was ours from the start: video games played together on personal machines. By revealing the physical networks beneath our keys, the project demonstrates how internet cafes function as local arbiters—a strong working-class, on-the-ground power as opposed to private or government-operated ISPs. READ LESS.

Collaborators: Willem Deisinger, Ciaran Dougherty, xenocidewiki, UKAI Projects

This essay, written for APT Exhibitons 3 year artbook, and collection of interviews explores domestic objects—artworks, glass bottles, memory boxes—as contemplative resistance to attention economies and productivity culture's home infiltration. Read it here.

Neighbourhood Jelly reimagines streaming through cooperative media servers, developing intentional archiving practices and personalized collections that reclaim shared digital space from corporate platforms.

How can we share media locally and intentionally again? Streaming platforms have become inaccessible and broken through rising prices, multi-platform content spread and low effort content. Piracy is on the rise because of these signals. Neighbourhood Jelly is an on going project to create an accessible media server as a way to bring intention to media consumption and experiment with cooperative internets and streaming platforms. We're not hoarding films, but trying to find new ways of sharing, collecting and archiving media together. Neighbourhood Jelly imagines personalized collections, inside joke genres, lists for friends, and ultimately enjoying a new way to collectively share a digital neighbourhood inside our homes. By using Jellyfin, and it's opensource add-ons, X is developing categorizing and archiving features/policies and will opensource its instance of Neighbourhood Jelly that is missing in the data hoarding libertarian circles of home servers.

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Collaborators: Ciaran Dougherty

This project will explore how to organize mediated resistance under late capitalism by developing secure and federated digital tools that move beyond extractive and repressive platforms. It will focus on creating personalized phone-cycles, using DIY mobile setups and alternative digital infrastructures to navigate the complexities of online activism while maintaining autonomy and privacy. In collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures for their Tactical Media Reader, the project will investigate practical alternatives to mainstream digital tools, offering insights on how communities can share common infrastructures and tactics while resisting platform control. READ LESS.

Collaborators: Institute of Network Cultures

The essay traces devotional objects from Anglo-Saxon talismans to modern smartphones, using Byung-Chul Han's psychopolitics framework. It proposes using multiple restricted phones as modern amulets to fragment neoliberal freedom and restore psychological solace. Written for Xenofuturism in print here and can be read here. READ LESS.

Collaborators: Xenofuturism,