I recently posted the table of contents and a chronological list of network entries that will appear in Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. As I try to make clear in the introduction, most entries also include examples of experiments with or on these networks because we often don’t know just how compelling a given network can be until we see artists exploring its limits and possibilities. Not surprisingly, however, just as we rarely understand how networks actually work, from the moment we send to the moment we receive, we also rarely attend to the underlying workings of media art. Stories abound of how, for example, artists from the 1970s and 1980s plugged this into that which resulted in certain fascinating outputs; but details are often frustratingly lacking or altogether absent on how the connections took place, even when the ‘how’ is exactly the point. To that end, I have also tried to include network diagrams and technical details for these experiments wherever possible.

document and experiment with networks outside of what’s now called “the internet.” We are invested in digging up alternative and forgotten networks so that we can reimagine the future of the internet as the future of networks.