The internet phonebook
book presentation by Elliott Cost
11 october
17:30 - 19:00
In April 2024, Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost met at a small bookshop in Athens and talked about creating a phonebook of the internet. One year later, the Internet Phone Book was launched there, with Kristoffer reading messages submitted by more than 700 designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators from its yellow pages. They are not the first to create such a book, but with algorithms and search engines shaping the ways we experience the web today, a low-tech alternative felt more necessary than ever. For this event at V2, Elliott (half of the Internet Phonebook) will share some of the project’s backstory. Copies of the book will be available to flip through, and a dial-a-site computer will let visitors call up websites from its pages.
Presented by: Elliott Cost
Elliott Cost is an artist and organizer working on the poetic web. He tends to the Internet Phone Book, Special Fish, HTML Energy, and various other sites. He is part of Extra Practice, a space for working and learning in the North of Rotterdam.