After our collective’s recent dispersal across Europe, we stay in touch using infrastructures owned by genocidal tech-giants. Finding ourselves in an age of platform capitalism and technofascism has led us to experiment with alternative methods of communication, with a focus on the ways in which the methods of communication shape the culture we create among each other.

Originating from our explorations of meme culture, this project aims to experiment with the different shapes and meanings a memetic cultural process creates by changing the medium in which it is practiced. By taking meme culture from extractive, profit driven social media platforms to the physical world we hope to “touch grass” and practice building new networks and modes of collaborating across distance. We want to participate in a compassionate culture that is not controlled by the cruelty of the technofascist.

High on Low Tech is a collection of images, printed as stickers on thermal label printers, shared through a collectively maintained network of servers and printers. The infrastructure currently consists of a shared nextcloud, a storage server and multiple label printers around Europe. This helps us bridge our localities and use, re-use and re-make each others files and share them either digitally or via post.

We currently see this process as the making of a new memetic motheryeast and sharing them at bookfairs, markets and making the print files available. By keeping track of the different variations that develop, we can preserve the variations in our archive. We invite you to send us images of how the stickers live their lives, how they change and evolve in your localities to become memes in the next locality!

You can also get in touch with us via [email protected] and we can send you stickers!!!