Station of Commons

Station of Commons is a collaborative initiative cultivates opportunities for “digital-commoning” in order to investigate the productive and equitable possibilities that emerge from reappropriating technology within the public sector, apart from traditional neoliberal norms of information dissemination.

Station of Commons considers itself to be many things. First and most fundamentally, Station of Commons is an agent of enacting and implementing various artistic digital practices, all of which encourage the reassessment of the normative means of production, communication, and, distribution using Open Source technology. The scope of work at Station of Commons encompasses sound-art broadcasting, online visual content publishing, and research on new forms of collaborative and social networking. Second, Station of Commons considers itself as a space for discourse about the technological tools that are used for creative and productive expression (for example: architects, radical educators, media theorists, hacktivists, curators, musicians and artists exploring digital expression). Third, the organization develops an ongoing a series called Situated Tutorials to provide both context and technical solutions for specific creative needs using Open Source technologies. As of today, the Situated Tutorials initiative has produced an audio server to broadcast knowledge over the internet, created a local stream over Virtual Private Network (VPN), and a data migration from large scale private servers to federated or community based servers/platforms.

Station of Commons provides technical guidance and support for local communities to materially implement their Open Technology needs and inquiries. The collective operates as a decentralized network of nodes that reimagines and re-forms the internet without its Web 2.0+ hegemonic structure and its neoliberal apparatuses of control.