Transmissions from the Fringe

The airwaves above Bogotá crackle with the unmistakable energy of illicit intellectual exchange. On March 3rd, 2025, while Colombia's mainstream media pushes vapid entertainment through traditional channels, SITIO's strange broadcast experiment—dubbed "Space Encounters"—beams its eleventh transmission into the digital ether. This isn't your father's radio show—it's something more feral, more ambitious, a mutant hybrid of podcast, community ritual, and collective hallucination.

"✨ ¡Únete a nuestro próximo Space Encounter #11!" proclaims the digital manifesto, summoning the curious and adventurous to this sonic baptism. The special guest? Jean Ayala, a developer whose eight-year journey through the technological wilderness has transformed him into something resembling a digital renaissance figure—part coder, part humanist, part musician, completely unclassifiable.

The transmission kicks off at precisely 1400 hours Colombian time, a deliberate choice that allows maximum participation from both day-dwellers and night-creatures across Bogotá's university district. The blue-tinged promotional graphic suggests computer code flickering against a midnight backdrop—visual shorthand for the borderless conversations about to unfold.

A Parade of Beautiful Mutants

No sooner has the eleventh transmission faded into the digital mist when SITIO announces their twelfth sonic assault, scheduled for March 10th. This time, the featured voice belongs to a mysterious figure described as "a creator and explorer" who "fuses hacktivism, blockchain and cypherpunk culture with community building and the exploration of digital commons."

The communication is deliberately provocative: "His identity emerges from the connection between the Japanese rope art (Nawashi), which represents precision, creativity and connection, and Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of sovereignty and decentralization." This isn't merely biographical information—it's a carefully crafted incantation designed to summon a particular type of mind to the gathering.

The promotional video—a hypnotic swirl of cosmic imagery gradually resolving into the stark text "SPACE encounters NAWASHI MUN STD"—further blurs the line between invitation and magical summoning. The gradual transitions and pulsing audio create the unmistakable sensation of being pulled toward something simultaneously dangerous and irresistible.

By March 17th, the sequence reaches its thirteenth iteration, with yet another mysterious guest prepared to unleash their peculiar wisdom upon anyone brave enough to tune in. The promotional image—a blurred black and white photograph featuring what appears to be a vintage mechanical device with a central fan—evokes the aesthetics of industrial nostalgia, a visual counterpoint to the futuristic conversations being facilitated.

Method in the Madness

Behind this apparently chaotic parade of digital personalities lies a deliberate strategy. Each Space Encounter serves as a node in SITIO's expanding network of cultural builders, a carefully constructed scaffold upon which a new kind of community can take form.

"His purpose is to translate technological complexity into accessible tools that drive autonomy and social impact," reads one guest description. This single line reveals the true agenda behind these transmissions—they are not merely conversations but tools of intellectual empowerment, designed to make complex concepts accessible to Bogotá's creative community.

The timing is precise: every Monday at 2:00 PM, creating a rhythmic pulse to which the community can synchronize. The language toggles seamlessly between Spanish and English, reflecting the borderless nature of the ideas being explored. The format itself—audio-only in an increasingly video-dominated world—creates a unique space where ideas can be evaluated on their substance rather than their visual packaging.

The Space Encounters series represents the fulfillment of SITIO's promise to deliver "2 educational workshops per month," with at least one "in phygital format with SITIO's digital community." These are not conventional workshops with rigid structures, but fluid conversations that allow participants to engage at multiple levels, from passive listening to active questioning.

This peculiar parade of minds—developers, creatives, digital philosophers—constitutes a living curriculum for Bogotá's emerging cultural builders. Each transmission adds another perspective, another set of tools, another conceptual framework to the collective arsenal of the community SITIO is cultivating in Chapinero's university district.

As the March 2025 series unfolds in sequential transmissions, a pattern emerges from the apparent chaos: SITIO is methodically exposing their community to voices that challenge conventional boundaries between technology and culture, between creation and governance, between individual expression and collective action. The result is a community increasingly equipped to navigate and reshape the strange new territories where digital and physical realities collide.

Each Monday, like clockwork, another transmission. Each transmission, another mind expanded. Each expansion, another step toward SITIO's vision of a Colombian creative community empowered to participate as equals in global conversations about our collective digital future.