About

suezcanal.xyz is an art and research practice producing open systems, deployable platforms and field investigations. Our work moves between exhibition, publication and active deployment: a vessel drift model used in a SAR exercise becomes a data visualization in a gallery; a territorial record system runs as both civic infrastructure and documentary installation.

The studio operates as a collective structure, attracting collaborators across data science, spatial research, software engineering and contemporary art. We have exhibited at the WRO Media Art Biennale and Roppongi Art Night, and our systems are in active operational use by civil society actors across the Mediterranean.

The Suez Canal Republic is the core artistic project: a stateless, self-declared nation operating as a platform for speculative institution-building. Embassy, Treasury, Liability and Drifter are its departments - each a working system as much as an artwork. The Republic interrogates what infrastructure means when it is built by those it excludes, and what sovereignty looks like at the scale of a drifting sensor or a cryptographically signed event record.

Our technical practice and artistic practice share the same commitments: open-source, non-proprietary, independently operable, built to outlast the project that first required it. We do not separate research from production. Every system is documented, every methodology is public, every tool released under a license that prevents capture.