NetNet builds experimental networks for the purpose of imagining greater transparency, autonomy, and agency. Working across hardware, interface, physical installation, and graphic design, the collaboration builds experiments which help us imagine a more wild and joyful future. NetNet is a collective of artists, designers, and programmers: Carrie Hott, Chris Hamamoto, and Sara Dean.
Our collective experience with site-specific installations, public engagement, and new media practices combines systems- and community-informed design. This is informed from our shared time in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we connected to the strong community-rooted and civically-minded art scene, the prevalence of experimental new media practices, and also the ever present shadow and urban transformation from big tech and silicon valley. This dichotomy between the promise of technological freedom and the experience of an increasingly privatized and surveilled city is an inquiry at the heart of our collaborative practice.
Our work exists within a growing ecosystem of localized, low-power, and experimental digital infrastructure. These situated systems counter the growing sense of placelessness, abstraction, and extraction of large-scale cloud computing, platform monopolies, and black box technologies. They create alternatives to large, privatized options and fill local gaps in access. We are building on this trajectory, operating alongside dominant grid infrastructures to produce new imaginaries of access, autonomy, and transparency.