I have been working in collaboration with my partner, Abigail De Kosnik, on a long duration project called alpha60 that tracks the distribution of media files on the internet. For the last two and a half years I’ve architected software and systems to record and visualize media flows from the United States across the globe, administered a cloud swarm of servers, and interpreted network traffic. We categorize this as an arts research project with outcomes that include academic research papers, works on paper, multi-channel video art, artists books, software systems, and a United States Patent and Trademark Office methods patent filing that includes 3D printed gun distribution data and rendered figures.

We use the data collected to theorize about non-colonial and anti-colonial media distribution, protocols for sharing in times of collapse, to challenge and debunk media industry disinformation, to shine a light on North American gun trafficking, and to demystify the current status of the ongoing struggle of drugs vs. guns vs. capital (indexed by computing power). Given the current concurrent economic, climate, and coronavirus crises, an urgent re-think to the rules of engagement between the personal, the collective, and contemporary media distribution technology is essential. 

References
Mark Lombardi, Nugan Hand Bank Sydney Australia (Version 2)
Louise Drulhe, The Critical Atlas of the Internet