This workshop explores antennas as post-digital artefacts, interfaces between organic and technological systems. Building on IoDT Electro-Agriculture research, participants will consider how electromagnetic, geological, and biological forces shape our connection to the Irish landscape. We’ll discuss rural knowledge, belief systems, and practices that sense and work with hidden energies, from soil conductivity to weather patterns, from mythic forces to modern infrastructures.

Through collective mapping and speculation, we’ll imagine new kinds of devices and installations that could inhabit or grow from an antenna: hybrid organisms, speculative sensors, or instruments for nonhuman communication. The goal is not to design functional technology, but to rethink technology itself, as something porous, ecological, and alive.

No technical background is needed, only curiosity about the unseen layers of our environment. Together, we’ll explore what a post-digital rural technology might look like, where nature doesn’t host technology, but transforms it.

This event is supported by Novembre Numerique and the Creative Europe Studiotopia programme.

Creator bio:
Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator, and cultural producer based in Paris. His work—previously released under the name Recyclism — investigates the limits and failures of information and communication technologies, addressing issues of obsolescence, consumerism, ownership, and privacy through hacking, détournement, and recycling. His practice spans software, hardware, installation, online works, and public interventions, often shared as open source.

Together with Dasha Ilina, he co-founded the collective NØ (2018), a non-profit supporting art and design practices that examine the social and environmental impact of technology. They also co-direct NØ SCHOOL NEVERS, an independent summer school for critical and experimental media practices.

Image credit: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry*