Image by Alice Yuan Zhang

Open Garden is a durational participatory performance by artist Alice Yuan Zhang, experimenting with the potentiality of our online attention and the labor of digital sovereignty. Streaming on solar power through the distributed web, a garden plot awaits visitors to generate instructions together that will be carried out each week, providing a neutral substrate for active reflection on digital commoning, responsibility, and governance.

You are invited to add and negotiate requests for the garden with others online, to be implemented by the artist each Sunday at 10am PDT. Visit Open Garden this Sunday March 21 for the first run.

To visit the Open Garden, follow these steps:

1. Download beaker browser, an experimental peer-to-peer web browser: https://beakerbrowser.com/install/

2. Type project address into the search bar and explore the garden: hyper://eaf466067d1cd2faf08edecafee13206a517e4c1146d1c2907312682729c560b/

3. (optional) Help host the decentralized website click the small network button to the right of the search bar, then toggle "Host This Hyperdrive". make sure to go into settings and check "Let Beaker run in the background". Now whenever you are on the page, you are keeping open garden online for new visitors.

Opens March 15
11am EDT / 8am PDT