Writing Telegrams to Fungi, Sending Bytes across Trees

Follow the network walk digitally.

The announcement image for the network walk is a photo collage: In the background, a photo shows the ruins of the Central Telegraph Office with its two archways and small windows, as well as a small palm trees growing in front. From the left, a cut-out image of lichens on the bark of a tree enter the collage, with moss and lichens creating a rough visual texture. Atop, red lines are drawn that partially overlap with the fine dark internet cables from the photo of the Telegraph Office below. Atop the collage, a font reads the event information: Writing Telegrams to Fungi, Sending Bytes across Trees. A Network Walk at Cubbon Park with Iz Paehr and Biplab Mahato. November 17, 2024, 02.-04.00pm, Meeting Point: Central Telegraph Office (exact location after registration). No registration fee. Limiated places. Below, the logos of Srishti Manipal, Shroomin, the metro, Art in Transit, NCBS, the bangaloREsidency and Goethe Insitut are positioned on a white background.

A Network Walk at Cubbon Park, 17.11.2024

During this workshop and walk at and around Cubbon Park, we will search for and trace networks in the ground, between trees and across buildings. Networks are all around us: From digital devices that connect (some of) us to global communication structures, to the fine threads of mycorrhizal networks that interconnect the very trees that in turn hold internet cables channeling zeros and ones. Touching smartphones, lichens, soils and cables, we will sense into layered networked ecologies, and learn about their (hir-her-his)stories by visiting the ruins of a building that once organised telegraph communications. Going deeper, we will move underground and play with sending signals through the tunnels that move people through the city's soil and visit Art in Transit. Instead of understanding these networks as separate, we will pay attention to where they meet and interlink in the form of fluid and sticky networked ecologies. Join us to encounter mycelium, telegraph and digital networks. Let’s find out how connecting with soils, fungi, cables and internet protocols can shape whats kinds of networks we dare to dream towards.

This walk is organized by Iz Paehr and Biplab Mahato during Iz' bangaloREsidency@Archives at NCBS.

When: November 17, 2024, 2.00 – 4.00 p.m.
Meeting Point: Central Telegraph Office (exact location after registration)
Access Info: Cubbon Park can be reached via metro and the station has an elevator. We will walk a maximum distance of 2 km. Please let us know your access needs and we will try to meet them.
No registration fee. Limited places.