Constellation is an app for Burning Man with a mesh network built in. Bring the app and you’re a node: together we weave Black Rock City into its own network, alive only inside the trash fence. Off-grid messages and live location, together at last: find your tribe, navigate the playa, check in with loved ones through the whiteouts. Share your pin, or go dark. No internet. No default world.
Every node sovereign and whole, private and unique, each one holding the reflection of all the rest. Make the vast feel intimate: meet someone at sunrise, walk each other home through dust and dreams.
The whole network fits in one app, Constellation, and asks nothing of the outside world.
Open Constellation and you’re on. No SIM, no bars, no setup ritual. The interface gets out of your way.
Airplane mode, dead zone, dust storm: your words still find your people, radio to radio.
Step-by-step directions to a person, a camp, or the art car you heard about at 3am.
A network that exists only inside the fence. No default world web, no work notifications. Nothing here can pull you elsewhere or out of the moment.
Two instruments in one app: messages and a living star chart of the city. Every WYA ping, every art marker, every “walk me home” draws another line between stars.
Built with our own hands, hearts, and dust-covered hugs. We’re not waiting for “someday.” The streets glow with our presence. We encounter art. We welcome strangers as friends, as brothers and sisters. We co-create magic.
Each moment is a coordinate of the future, already alive in the now.
The network is sovereign and local, like the community it serves.
Out there, connection comes at a price: your words on their servers, your map in their pocket, your attention on the auction block.
Connection Medicine is the antidote: decentralized network tech, crafted for playa as experimental tech art. A sovereign network for a sovereign community.
Connection Medicine is more than a tool: it’s a vision of direct connection, each other to each other, with no intermediary listening in. Leave a friend a clue, or leave no digital trace at all and vanish into the adventure. Here, ideas move like fire: hand to hand, heart to heart, until the whole night is alight. The mesh is a living reflection of the community that raises it: its shape, its warmth, its wild edges, mirrored back in the network itself.
A decentralized mesh, old as any jeweled net: we reach each other by holding the connection open for one another, each of us passing along what the next person can’t reach alone. No default web: no feed, no work notifications, no elsewhere. Just the city, present. The web grows wherever we gather: each node reflects its person, each person connects the city, and the whole reflects our direct connection in the here and now. The crowd is the signal.
Through authentic, direct connection: people showing up for each other, hands joining to dance more freely, more safely, more strangely, more wildly. Connection Medicine is tech art: a real, working network the city raises for itself each year. It glows for a week, then packs out clean with the rest of us.
This is the experiment. This is the gift. The future we’re building has been here all along.
Open your wifi anywhere in the city and you’ll find it waiting. Here’s the whole of it:
This net is a piece we raise together. Host a node at your camp and weave your corner of the city into it.
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