Large gatherings stop being only line-ups: they become complete environments of architecture, art, knowledge, healing, sustainability and international networks.
Boom is central to this transformation, but not alone. European, Australian, Brazilian and South African festivals circulate artists, technologies, aesthetics and organisational models.
The internet changes discovery: forums, MySpace, download stores and online video gradually replace the shop and flyer. Scale grows while many local archives disappear.
Network nodes
PortugalHungaryBrazilAustraliaSouth Africa
Technology in circulation
Laptop live setTOOL / MEDIUMAbleton LiveTOOL / MEDIUMDigital downloadTOOL / MEDIUMForumTOOL / MEDIUMOnline videoTOOL / MEDIUM
A numbered run of objects made for the people who were there — and the ones who wish they had been. What is inside stays classified until the list opens. Signal subscribers get first access, before anyone else, and the run never comes back.