Local Water
"The promontory of our everyday turned upside down. Inverted so as to make water newly familiar."
Spanning hundreds of years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Ludenwic, through the contemporary domestic setting of a council flat in the shadow of gentrification, to a flooded future of speculative architecture, Local Water is part poetic journey and part game-based guidebook through our urban waterways.
Created as a serialised hypertext piece for Phoenix and BOM’s Careful Networks project, Local Water was released in three monthly chapters on the experimental p2p Beaker platform.
Local Water can be played here – The original p2p hosted version of Careful Networks has now been shuttered. Since then, Local Water grew into a text called Ebbing. You can play a version of Ebbing here.
Initiated by Phoenix and BOM, the Careful Networks existed as a temporary p2p network, home to a series of newly commissioned works. Each work was initially hosted by another artist. The network exists through a collaborative act of care and stewardship. Visitors were also invited to participate in this.
Each of the works was been created within the constraints of a 2mb file size and without external dependencies.
More on the Careful Networks project here
image: Drawing for Decentralized Networks Workshop for WYFY School, in partnership with BUFU, Image Courtesy Taeyoon Choi