Surf Serf Serve was the name of my graduation project at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2022.

Why do we keep using software and hardware that is so at odds with our ethical values? Surf Serf Serve is an attempt to leave the cloud and to get back to the land. It's an attempt to find a way out of the walled gardens we so often still rely on as creative workers. When the surf-able internet evaporated into the cloud it left behind a salt lake desert... But enough with the spatial metaphors—let's focus on infrastructure! Surf Serf Serve consists of three servers, an antenna and a guided visualization that are spread throughout the building. They are developed in collaboration with different groups and individuals, as tools to maintain friendships and collaborations but also as ways to generate answers to our digital conundrum. Taking cues from the Feminist Server Manifesto, they are designed to be situated technologies—as sculptures, they tell encrypted stories of the communities that care enough about them to run them and question if things really always have to look the same. As computers, they have the potential to replace Dropbox, Google, and the like—even if just temporarily.

192168285.xyz is my personal server, built and maintained together with my friend Paul Bille. Silver Surfer was built in collaboration with Ada Reinthal for Salwa Foundation. Cloudia-o, built together with Tharim Cornelisse, was supposed to remain at the Sandberg Design Department after I left. Are you working in the Dark? was written together with Paul with sound design by Emir Timur Tokdemir. The Wifi Dish is based on an open source design by Daniel Connell and works a bit like a dreamcatcher in that it collects the internet from the surrounding office buildings, ensuring that everyone can stay online for the duration of the show. Follow the Ethernet to find them all.