In Your Aerial, emerges from the legacy of Bristol Wireless.
Established in the early 2000s, Bristol Wireless is a community network with a unique history and exciting new future. Developed so as to provide free Internet services to schools and community centers across central Bristol. As commercial Internet provision became the norm, the network became a site for community events (radio shows, musical interventions, live streaming experiments).

In 2018, Bristol Wireless community member and creative technologist, Tarim approached artist and researcher Teresa Dillon to discuss how they could save the infrastructure. Recognising the networks position alongside the histories of community networks such as Consume, London (1999-20003), Seattle Wireless (2000-2016), Freifunk, Germany (2002-), guifi, Catalonia (2004-), AlterMundi, Argentina (2007-), Exarcheia, Athens (2017) to name but a few, Dillon proposed to reimagine what it means to inherit a network, to consider what it means to redefine infrastructure as commons and look towards the future of the project.

Recasting Bristol Wireless in this light, in October 2018 Dillon led a workshop with Bristol Wireless members (XXX), which explored what this vision might mean. It was during this workshop at the projects original name In Your Aerial was revealed. The name itself a playful pun on local dialects, we decided to bring this name forward as the mechanism through which to recast the project in a new light, rerouting it back into its local atmospheres.
It is in this collective spirit that In Your Aerial was born, with the network now been inherited by a new crew, who are boldly re-imagining how we can radically rethink such network infrastructures – as sites of heritage, learning, artistic inquiry, computational experimentation and commons.

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