After many months of preparation Hackitectura and many diverse collectives located themselves in front of a detainee migrant camp at the southest point of continental Europe. A poetic virtual bridge, Fada'íat was intended as a symbolic north-south free network link (after Perejil island conflict and bombings in Madrid the 11th of March), the aim of which was to maps new connections and intensities across Schengen borders through creating a border-free public media interface at the gate of mediterranean sea.

The Transactions  frontier lab event that on Midsummer night's eve 2004, between Tarifa (36 00,1' N 05 36,5' W) and Tangier (35 43.4'N. 05 54.6'W). As a continuity of the Multitude Connected project, (la Rabida, Huelva, 2003), it was a social, political, technological and artistic laboratory that brought together a large group of activists (from immigrant groups, workers rights, gender fighters, communication) as well as political theorists, hackers, syndicate members, architects and artists to think about the relations between freedom of knowledge and freedom of movement in a society of globalised information production --groups involved included: indymedia estrecho, canarias and barcelona, psand.net, global telesat, riereta.net, offtv, straddle3.net, artefacte, onnirik, xicnet.com, dregs, zemos98, casa de iniciativas 1.5, casa de la paz, colectivo aljaima, fadaat, hackandalus, elegant mob films, riereta the film, tarifa town council, bnv productions, unia arte y pensamiento, hackitectura.net.

The participation of the Hackitectura crew focused on the organisation of a No Border Media Lab, which consisted of a network of nodes situated on both shores of the Strait, the highlight of which was the wi-fi link between Tarifa and Tangier. Local nodes of fada'íat flowed between Tarifa (clusters in the Castle of Guzman el Bueno and in the Beach of Lances) and Tangier (University Abdelamlek Esaadi and terrace in the cliff of the Marshan - next to the Cafe Hafa, a beatnik mythical place-) and servers connected the system to the net in Seville, the USA, Buenos Aires, London and comsat Astra 1H, - a geo-stationary satellite about 33,000 km above the earth. The result from all this was a constellation of places, temporary space modalities and layers of presence difficult to comprehend with the epistemologic tools of architecture, urbanism or geography.

Direct actions of disobedience towards the border regime also took place including: a blockade of the Civil Guards police with detained people who had just arrived from Tarifa's beach and a demonstration outside the Centre of Confinement for Foreigners in Algeciras, which culminated in the liberation of one of the arrested people who otherwise would of been illegally deported.  

From code to geography

The fada'iat project is intended as a model for a spontaneous emancipated spatial configuration of tectonic elements. In our work we try to subvert the scheme imposed by the infoeconomy from which a hub of machines, working minds and organised infocapital around an environment of micro processes aids the stabilisation of a global state of balance that strengthens hegemony and weakens communication. The combination of nodes - hardware, software, wetware- and flows of information constitutes a fluid and reterritorialized geography that united both borders to each other, and with the web surfers.  In the generation of algorithms of free global communications, the contribution of this project resides in its capacity of creating spaces for human communication. We consider that in fada'íat, for a few hours, we can perhaps deprogram geographic reality in all directions of southern Europe's border.