Without metaphors, we wouldn’t be able to talk about and with computers. They translate algorithmic processes into understandable icons on the screen, reveal how we interact with technologies, and mirror our desires and fears. The project From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet investigates how we imagine the internet and speak of our daily experiences online.

The series of readings kicks off with Marketplace of Beliefs, a board game by OMSK Social Club. OMSK Social Club is a stewarded practice of collective storytelling. It involves a specific immersive improvised methodology which they coined in 2017 as Real Game Play, encompassing collective immersion and speculative worlding. From these live iterations, they harvest media relics such as films, scripts, and large scale video installations invoking states and gateways that could potentially be fiction, or an as of yet unlived reality.

From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea is a project by Zentrum für Netzkunst e.V. and funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.