Sticky Networks

This website artwork on networks complicates/compiles stories of technological development as supposedly linear, progressive and frictionless. Following and reaching back into (her-hir-his)stories of telegraphy as a technology that deepened colonial control, it collects traces, patterns, breaks and continuities in network structures at the archives at NCBS and in the city of Bangalore. Three storylines open up: On internet infrastructure, on networked ecologies and mycelium, and on the traces and echoes of telegraphy.

A website artwork by Iz Paehr
developed during the bangaloREsidency@The Archives at NCBS in 2024
updated for the exhibition Travelling Plants at 1ShantiRoad Studio/Gallery in 2025

Interviews: S. Prashant Kumar, PP Sneha, P Arun, Melissa Arulappan

Collaboration on the Network Walk, research and images on mycelium: Biplab Mahato

With gratitude to the team of The Archives at NCBS alphabetically: Anjali, Deepika, Dhatri, Ojas, Parvathy, Ravi, Sindhu, Venkat, current fellows Achintya, Ghazala, Nisha, Vrushal, as well as archivists-in-training Carol and Kinjal.

and the team of Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan alphabetically: Ayush, Harshita, Nandita, Maureen, Michael, Riya.

as well as the team of 1ShantiRoad Studio/Gallery: Sandeep TK and Suresh Jayaram

Thank you to my fellow residents: Chelsea, Felix, Firat, Frida, Gözde, Keno, Meike, Nancy, Robert.