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#ESTONOESINTERNET by the collective Astrovandalistas is a project that critiques the state of telecommunications in Mexico, exploring how political and economic control over media affects public access to information. The work invites reflection on technological dependency and proposes ways to repurpose obsolete devices to serve new functions.

As part of the exhibition Acciones Territoriales, curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, the project manifested both online and physically in hacked routers distributed across Mexico city. These routers, altered to replace their original operating systems, hosted a local network where users could access content generated collaboratively by artists, writers, and activists. Participants could connect through hotspots named ESTO NO ES INTERNET in public spaces, offering an alternative media platform that functioned outside traditional internet infrastructure.

The first content batch was developed during a workshop at Ex Teresa Arte Actual with 12 participants who engaged in collective dialogue to shape the topics addressed in the digital publication. The project aimed to distribute this content without relying on conventional internet channels, thus circumventing corporate and governmental control, presenting itself as an immaterial publication distributed via hacked technology.