Tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing)

Tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing)
Name	tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing)
Location	H&D Studio
Date	2026/07/20
Time	14:30-18:30
PeopleOrganisations	Karen Czock
Type	HDSC2026
Web	Yes
Print	No

This workshop is open for kids (8-12 years old) to join with the mediation of a pedagogical assistant. If you would like to rsvp: send an email using this link. Information you share with us will be used only for communication and discarded after the event. More in our Privacy text :)

How can we care for digital infrastructure together?

In this workshop, we slowly explore a shared terminal* by connecting to a shared server via SSH** as a way of maintaining a server collectively. We use tmux***, a tool that allows several people to merge into one user, navigating the command line collectively. Where people with different technical skills meet on a server, this setup requires slowness, patience and mutual understanding accross.

As we experiment together, our actions are automatically transformed into a live web publication—a conversation, a theatre script or documentation—which can later be printed as a small zine.

Documenting what happens on the server is essential to share knowledge and enable each other, yet is often the first thing to disappear when something breaks or when there is too much to do. What happens if we make documentation a part of the maintenance process?

If you already spend a lot of time in the terminal, with server maintenance or in collective work, you're warmly invited to bring your own practices, obscure commands or learnings about the relational aspects of maintaining shared digital infrastructure.

• a text-based way of interacting with a computer
  • a way of connecting to another computer

Timeline: ideally around 3.5–4 hours!

• Introduction: Background/Skill levels (15 min)
• Basic concepts of the terminal, SSH (30 min)
• Creating SSH users, connecting to the server (15 min)
• Intro to tmux + setup (30 min)
• In groups (90 min)
  • staring TMUX sessions
  • Choosing an approach: exploring the server / trying out basic commands / discussing protocols / styling
• Printing
• Exchange about experiments and about experiences (30 min)

Material list:

• Participants: a computer

Access note:

• The workshop touches a lot of different technologies superficially (server, terminal, ssh, tmux, html, css) so it should be okay for you to stir in the unknown without in-depth explanations :)

Bio:

Karen Czock is a designer and programmer based in Hamburg, Germany, interested in collective infrastructures, their materiality and politics. In her work, Karen uses code as a tool for experimental publishing and collaborative learning.