Islands of Conviviality
September 1–9, 2026 Split, Brač, Hvar, Vis
An island pedagogy across the southern Dalmatian archipelago marking the centenary of Ivan Illich’s birth
With Hito Steyerl, Jürgen Renn, Claire Pentecost, Sarah Lewison, Sara Black, Yvonne Illich, Srećko Horvat, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Damir Ugljen, Armina Pilav, Jamie Allen, Valeria Graziano, Gordan Savičić, Felix Stalder, Morana Miljanović, Manja Ristić, Saša Savanović, Kevin Kenjar, Laura Lotti, Predrag Kolaković, Dora Vanette, Ivica Mitrović, Bronwyn Lay, Dora Vanette, Aleksandra Sekulić, Dennis Schep, Luís Brum, Mariana Pestana, Helin Ulas, Marianna Tsionki, Cassie Thornton, John W. Kim, the Anthropocene Commons network, Brian Holmes and probably a few others
Monday 7 Sep
ISSA, Vis
Working action – building, maintaining, cooking, learning together.
Public
Tools for Autonomy workshop with !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Gordan Savičić and Felix Stalder on ISSA’s Internet web server powered by solar energy which is only ‘on’ when there is sufficient sunlight to power it. How could these independent servers be networked so one machine takes over from the others to ensure that the network is always ‘on’ even if the single computer is not?
Public, limited participation
Keynote by Hito Steyerl, Another Battle for Kordun, generative AI, flexible realism and the Pantheon data centre in Topusko
Public, In English