Network Ensemble

The NETWORK ENSEMBLE is a sound project making use of wireless network data as creative medium. The project consists of machines able to translate data captured from wireless networks into sound and desktop software able to further modulate the sound for live performance.

The performances carried out by the NETWORK ENSEMBLE aim to explore the activity of local wireless networks. Notable performances include Design Museum in London, Onassis Stegi in Athens and Spektrum in Berlin.

The NETWORK ENSEMBLE debuted on the Italian label NUKFM in 2017 with SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES. In 2019, the German label MILLE PLATEAUX released FLASH DEMONS.

2019 (live): DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(release): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
2018 (live): Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, athens
2017 (release): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
Audiovisual experiments with wireless networks, released as custom SD card

NEX, a phone powered wifi sniffer able to translate data packets into sound
NE3, a wifi sniffer able to translate data packets into sound
NE3, a wifi sniffer able to translate data packets into sound
Flash Demons, released in 2019 by MILLE PLATEAUX
Flash Demons, released in 2019 by MILLE PLATEAUX
Selected Network Studies, released in 2016 by NUKFM
Selected Network Studies, released in 2016 by NUKFM
The NETWORK ENSEMBLE is a sound project making use of wireless network data as creative medium. The project consists of machines able to translate data captured from wireless networks into sound and desktop software able to further modulate the sound for live performance.
The performances carried out by the NETWORK ENSEMBLE aim to explore the activity of local wireless networks. Notable performances include Design Museum in London, Onassis Stegi in Athens and Spektrum in Berlin.
The NETWORK ENSEMBLE debuted on the Italian label NUKFM in 2017 with SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES. In 2019, the German label MILLE PLATEAUX released FLASH DEMONS.

2023.4.18 (live): Godmode Epochs
SERPENTINE, twitch
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A game where players train an AI, but they actually just frustrate it until it cheats
(release): Large Lore Models
0XPARC; 'Large Lore Models', in AUTONOMOUS WORLD N1
0XPARC
Speculative tools for decentralized narrative building, with E. Jäger and A. Milne
(demo): AI UK 2023
QEII CENTRE, london
(residency): GODMODE CHRONICLES
ARTECHO
Building a fully on-chain narrative generation game, a.k.a a 'Large Lore Model'
(press): Turret Theory
SERPENTINE
Alasdair Milne examines the simulations and configurations of dmstfctn's game
2022 (live): GOD MODE (ep. 1)
SERPENTINE, london; IMPAKT FESTIVAL
HET HUIS, utrecht; UNSOUND BUBBLES
kraków; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
HQI, london
(press): Artist conversation with dmstfctn
IMPAKT TV
A conversation on simulations and AI hosted Marijn Bril at IMPAKT festival 2022
2021 (group show): NONPLUSULTRABLACK
SYNNIKA, frankfurt
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
CAFE OTO, london
(release): ECHO FX
KRISIS PUBLISHING
A book and performance about market manipulation on Brexit Referendum night; Ø
FLATLINE PRESS/HYPERDUB
(press): Demystification Committee debuts echo fx
AQNB
'The AV show revisits the sociopolitical and economic tumult following Brexit'; ECHO FX
SLEEK
'A modern tale, constructed of lies, gorilla advertising bus campaigns and ...'; REALITY CHECK AHEAD
CLOT
'If the performance was a reaction, the book is a reflection, at 0x speed ...'
2020 (live): CTM ^× TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin
(solo): OFFSHORE MATTERS
AKSIOMA, ljubljana
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS
FORUM STADTPARK, graz
(talk): Moneylab #8
AKSIOMA
A panel on artistic explorations of tax havens, led by an investigative journalist
(press): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
NERO
An interview on the themes of INTERFACE CHAOS (2019), including excerpts; CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
NEW YORK TIMES
'A group of artists began a project to show how money could be moved offshore'
2019 (live): DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(group show): A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
C-MINE, genk; PORTO DESIGN BIENNIALE
TRINDADE, porto; A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
LUMA, arles
(screening): Ø.29
CORSICA STUDIOS, london; PORTO DESIGN BIENNIALE
CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, porto; INTERFACE CHAOS
TRUST, berlin; INTERFACE CHAOS
EVENING CLASS, london
(release): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
2018 (live): transmediale face value
HKW, berlin; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, athens; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS STEGI, athens
"Approach from West India Quay, see what corpses sprouted on the Isle of Dead"; Radical Networks
SPEKTRUM, berlin
(group show): 4^th Design Biennial
ARTER, istanbul; 4^th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
ARTER, istanbul; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin; Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur
(talk): Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam; Automated Landscapes
HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, rotterdam
On infrastructures and geographies of avoidance, from data centres to tax havens; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
On ways and means of making offshore and other financial processes visible; IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, utrecht
On the sonification of stock market crashes, part of a panel on algotrading; MoneyLab #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
A talk on offshore investigative w—i—p, part of a panel on play in art and finance; Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(release): A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SCHLOSS-POST
'The phone on the cafe table buzzes: Graham. Mark sighs. Graham is a prick'; The Offshore Economist
Rizosfera
'You are alone on a dusty desert road... You have just run out of water.....'
2017 (talk): the influencers
CCCB, barcelona
(residency): Vilem Flusser Residency
TRANSMEDIALE, berlin
(release): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
Audiovisual experiments with wireless networks, released as custom SD card