Date: Sunday, 4 October 2026
Time: 14:00-16:00
Location: Varia, Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam

Resurrection is a series of workshops where participants explore death in digital infrastructures, devices, technologies or understandings. We use the deprecation of these dead as a point to remember and respect their origins, lives and deaths. Together we will discuss dead networks and why we think they have passed on. What were the reasons for their abandon and what do we miss about them? We will write and perform eulogies for our chosen kin, remembering and honoring them. With slowing down the passing we create rituals of slow understandings and moments of research to defy contemporary consumerist habits that are imposed upon us.

The idea for resurrection comes from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a method of maintenance and care based in media archeology. These dead bordering the living share a collective past and common destiny in the veil, and hence also a simultaneity in time. As we remember the past, we connect futures of networks and see what are the differences, genealogies that we would like to keep, what did we keep, what can come after? Taking space and time with them, dead tech could help us become more aware of the contemporary history of deprecation and cultural/digital waste and inspire us to dig deeper with every peck of the keyboard.

Dead networks could include: telephony, telegraphy, speed dating, party lines, AOL, MSN messenger, askfm, tumblr, block parties etc.

Sevgi Tan is an experimental publisher, designer and media collector based in Rotterdam. She passes the time thinking about how technologies come and pass without rituals, making books, organizing community meetings that revolve around fibers, collecting old devices from local media museums or friends of friends, echoes of political borders (licenses, warranties, passports) in everyday life. Currently she is in the process of fixing a Macintosh 512K and her working is the work. She recently graduated from Experimental Publishing Masters in Rotterdam, and since then her research and practice has been a part of the program of Art Meets Radical Openness Festival in Linz, Internet Archive Europe in Amsterdam, and will be a resident at Media Archeology Lab in Colorado in March 2027.