Pivilion is a decentralizing open source darknet and local web server project and gallery management software for the creation of autonomous & uncensored digital media art online galleries. It runs on low cost Raspberry Pi hardware and is built on top of Raspbian GNU/Linux with a server and Tor networking built in, utilizing the Tor network to host exhibitions out of the box.
Each Pivilion device receives a Tor onion domain automatically the first time it’s activated. The system provides the user with a CMS for publishing multimedia or websites within a gallery. It’s designed so that the author-curator can use any network (even public networks behind firewalls) to host an online exhibition.
Pivilion is primarily a long-term, open-ended artist-run project promoting autonomous modes of hypermedia art, continuously including a large number of artists and cultural workers as participants in its creation.
Information on our production is available on this website, while the entire open source system is available via git. See links below.
The aim of the project is to create an uncensored networked alternative that can connect artists with their (both local and online) communities; utilizing all the upsides of net tech and the darknet in promoting connectability, privacy and maximum freedom of creating, curating and distributing art.
Pivilion was initiated in 2015, as a collaboration by Dina Gligo (b. Karadžić) and Vedran Gligo (as part of the G-MK “Open Studio” residency, curated by net.cube), leading to a fellowship at the first Schlosspost Web Residency – “Decentralization of Internet Art” (’16) and an Akademie Schloss Solitude Web-based Media Digital Solitude Fellowship (2018–19), among many other activities involving both authors and numerous collaborators.
We are currently looking to produce new work and collaborate with other similar projects.
# Website
pivilion.net
# Contact
pivilion@formatc.hr
# Social media
@formatc_artorg && #pivilion_dot_net
# Presentation
hash.pivilion.net
# Code
gitlab.com/hacklab01/pivilion
# Workshop demo (currently unavailable)
pivilionumi6b3kg.onion/w (accessible via Tor browser)
# Hidden service (currently unavailable)
pivilionumi6b3kg.onion (accessible via Tor browser)
# Code mirrors
at MSU (Museum of Contemporary Art) Zagreb: pivilion.msu.hr
at mur.at: noa.mur.at (currently unavailable)
# Texts
by Irena Borić, 2022:
formatc.hr/biljeske-o-autonomiji
by Renata Šparada, 2022:
formatc.hr/digitalne-interpretacije-kaoticne-stvarnosti
by Renata Šparada, 2022:
formatc.hr/digitalno-kao-mjesto-povezivanja
# Interviews
by Jelena Pašić @ Vizkultura, Jun 12 2026:
vizkultura.hr/intervju-dina-gligo
by Filippo Lorenzin @ Hyperallergic, Jan 22 2021:
formatc.hr/pivilion-hyperallergic