Investor Report
Anežka Minaříková: Stream of Stream
Dear reader,
Back in April, I wrote the first Investor Report to the Cloudlord.management Partners. The main message was that I had decided to commit to my internet-related work:
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I’m reading A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel about a young magician named Ged who, in an act of show-off, releases a dark shadow creature. Ged journeys through escaping, hunting, and, finally, accepting the dark shadow he released. Something inside me clicks, and I decide to shift how I perceive my internet projects: they should be the center of my work attention.
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Snippet from Investor Report - Spring 2025
It’s still foggy how it will pan out, but I’m beyond happy about the decision.
I also sense that the tides are shifting. There is a longing for projects showing another way of being online. It’s as if we commonly agree that the primary platforms are inadequate while simultaneously rejecting the “internet is bad” narrative.
May was busy with the Internet Phone Book and Sharing Screen. Fortunately, June looks even busier. The past months have been the most fun work-wise in ages: I love working on keeping the internet alive.
With care,
Kristoffer
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Anežka Minaříková: Stream of Stream
Anežka Minaříková is a graphic designer, illustrator, and writer based in New York.
What is Stream of Stream?
Stream of Stream is an ongoing archive of streams. Each stream is recorded using an underwater microphone and uploaded to the cloud. There, the sound of flowing water becomes a digital stream—a continuous transmission of data over the internet. It’s both a literal and poetic meditation on what it means to stream in the digital age.
Why did you make Stream of Stream?
Stream of Stream began as a university school project during COVID. For our final presentations, we were asked to create a performance—something that would take place in person but also be streamed online. At the time, I was spending a lot of time walking in nature. During a conversation with one of our teachers about my walks and studio work, I joked: What if I just streamed a stream?
That project lives on—maybe because my husband and I often go on long walks with our two dogs, and we frequently come across brooks, creeks, streams and rivers. I started carrying an underwater recorder in my backpack—one I bought online, originally intended for recording whale sounds—and whenever we passed one, I’d sometimes record the audio and upload it to the website to share with friends.
Who or what inspired you?
At the time, I was reading Timothy Morton’s books—especially his ideas about ecology and the entanglement of nature and technology. I was also influenced by New Dark Age by James Bridle, who writes about how we use metaphors from nature—clouds, streams, viruses—to describe the digital world. I found that fascinating: how we frame machine processes in poetic terms, and in doing so, forget what they truly are.
“Streaming” evokes a peaceful flow, but in reality, it’s a constant, energy-intensive digital process. Meanwhile, real water flow generates energy in the physical world. But for me, the sound of water is simply calming.
Visit Stream of Stream and Anežka’s personal website and Instagram.
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Field Notes
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Sharing Screen with Jisu Lee. We continue our communal internet tour on Wednesday, June 4, when we share screen with Jisu from Birdcall, probably the most HTML-punk focal point on the internet.
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Good Internet Magazine. Congratulations to everyone involved for bringing a new publication to life. Regular Naive Weekly readers will be familiar with contributors like Zachary Kai, Sacha Judd, and Taylor Troesh.
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Adjacent, Issue 12: Becoming. I have yet to take a proper read of the latest issue of Adjacent, the journal of emerging media, published by NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Maybe we can co-read this Sunday?
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Calls for Participation: Muze Creative Grants (Due 6/6), Lullaby Machine second issue (Due 10/6), Everyoneisagirl (Due 15/6), form + foliage (Due 15/6), Protostars Grants (Due 16/6), Error 406 (Due, 17/6), Believers Grant (Due 30/6), and Peckham Digital (Due 30/6).
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Poetic Web Calendar: Internet Phone Book Talk (hybrid, 1/6), PAM’s virtual residency exhibition (online, 1/6), Sharing Screen with Jisu Lee (online, 4/6), Demo Day (NYC, 4/6), Materials (London, 7/6), Poetics of Computing (Rotterdam, 10/6), and Cursor Launch Party (Copenhagen, 13/6).
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