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‘Clouded Vision: Artists’ Insights on the Internet’ Interesting article by Mia Stern for The Brooklyn Rail about artistic practices that approach the materiality of the internet.
brooklynrail.org/2024/07/art-...
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Clouded Vision: Artists’ Insights on the Internet | The Brooklyn Rail
The idea of the internet as a shapeless mass of vapor hovering above the ground creates the illusion of a benign and intangible entity. Since its creation, artists have helped dispel this image by loo...
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/art-technology/Clouded-Vision-Artists-Insights-on-the-Internet/
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Soooo happy that the book 'Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement,' co-published by Theatrum Mundi and our very own
@dpr-barcelona.bsky.social
is out now and available for purchase 📚🌱 It offers new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.
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Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement - Announcements - e-flux
Publication of Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement presented by Theatrum Mundi
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/669963/staging-ground-infrastructure-performance-and-bodies-in-movement
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Jer Thorp
6 days ago
This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
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Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/ai-quartz-mining-hurricane-helene.html
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Next Internet Tour in Barcelona ☁️🪱🦥 11 October — 11:00 a.m. Zona Franca Part of CODA • Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia 5 hops max, 120 min, max 30 body packets 🔌 Tickets:
entradium.com/events/inter...
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biennalcoda.com
#internetinfrastructure
#internettour
#thecloud
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Alex Saum
10 days ago
CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social
y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet) VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...
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Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH
Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.
https://www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/programa/traceroutes-poems-segundo-viaje-a-cargo-de-alex-saum-pascual-y-mario-santamaria/
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Playtime Audiovisuales
23 days ago
Nos acabamos de enterar de la triste noticia de la muerte de Javier Piñango, uno de los músicos experimentales más importantes de la escena española y director del festival internacional de música Experimentaclub, que nos dio una de nuestras primeras oportunidades como programadores. DEP compañero
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Triste noticia: Javier Piñango nos dejó. DEP
www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
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Muere el músico Javier Piñango a los 63 años
Integrante de grupos como Cerdos, Mil Dolores Pequeños o Ankitoner Metamars, fue también promotor de festivales como Experimentaclub y codirector de los sellos discográficos Triquinoise y Por Caridad ...
https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/musica/muere-musico-javier-pinango-63-anos_1_12590832.html
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Arnaud Pessey
26 days ago
L'artiste
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détourne Google Street View pour reconstituer le parcours d'un câble sous-marin de fibre optique près de Barcelone. Une façon poétique de révéler l'infrastructure invisible qui porte nos données et questionner notre dépendance à ces réseaux cachés.
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The Pudding
2 months ago
New project!
@yufeng.bsky.social
analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗:
pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
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Martha Dark
2 months ago
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it. We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here.
www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
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Planned AI data centre would drain local water supply, firm warns
Anglian Water has raised strong objections to the planning application by Elsham Tech Park in north Lincolnshire, saying it could cause sewage pollution
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/planned-ai-data-centre-would-drain-local-water-supply-firm-warns-nwqs7gccz
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Emerald Black Latency received a nomination for the S+T+ARTS Prize 🐍🦥🪱
starts-prize.aec.at/en/emerald-b...
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Emerald Black Latency
Emerald Black Latency takes the Medusa Submarine Cable System as a starting point to explore the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the internet. Planned for 2026, Medusa is ...
https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/emerald-black-latency/
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:pressure network
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Thinking photography in the Age of AI | unthinking.photography
Taking place over email in early 2025, a discussion between Victor Burgin and Katrina Sluis that analyses the transformation of photographic practices from the socially aware political contexts of 'Th...
https://unthinking.photography/articles/thinking-photography-in-the-age-of-ai?mc_cid=5251875fae&mc_eid=fccbd1ea70
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The Image in Non-Fixed Time | unthinking.photography
Annet Dekker analyses how NFTs have built on new forms of time that were introduced by the web and associated technologies, to challenge conventional human-centric understandings of temporality.
https://unthinking.photography/articles/the-image-in-non-fixed-time?mc_cid=5251875fae&mc_eid=fccbd1ea70
4 months ago
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La Directa
5 months ago
#TECNOLOGIA
| “Els cables submarins que connecten el món sencer repliquen les velles rutes comercials de l’època colonial”, explica la investigadora Miranda Gabbott
https://directa.cat/el-nuvol-que-no-existeix-aixi-es-larquitectura-del-mon-digital/
Per Albert Alexandre
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El núvol que no existeix: així és l'arquitectura del món digital
Tot i la narrativa de les grans empreses tecnològiques, internet se sustenta sobre cables i una xarxa de centres de dades que consumeixen grans quantitats de recursos i que es desplega seguint velles lògiques de dominació econòmica. En el número del mes de maig de la 'Directa' en fem una extensa anàlisi
https://directa.cat/el-nuvol-que-no-existeix-aixi-es-larquitectura-del-mon-digital/
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Karen Barad en Barcelona, 13 mayo
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Conferencia de Karen Barad
Karen Barad, que ideó el concepto "matter matters", ofrecerá una conferencia en el DHub el 13 de mayo.
https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad/conferencia-de-karen-barad
5 months ago
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Amb ganes d'això! 🔥 Taller del Grup de treball de RWM amb Marta Echaves
www.macba.cat/ca/activitat...
Parlarem de malestars contemporanis, la indústria farmacèutica i el “Renaixement dels psicodèlics” i la recerca en curs de la investigadora Marta Echaves, una història de la ketamina a contrapel.
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Cloudplexity #291
www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
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Last saturday visiting data centers in Barcelona with fire included 🔥
#Internettour
#Internetour
internetour.com
5 months ago
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady
5 months ago
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Widespread Power Outage Hits Spain and Parts of France and Portugal
The blackout hit critical infrastructure like airports and caused transportation disruptions across Spain and Portugal. The cause of the outage was unclear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/world/europe/power-outage-spain-portugal-france.html
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Internet Tour BCN Pic: Blanca Pujals
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Daniela Vaccaro about my falling avatar in
becoming.press
"The collapse of the image expresses the limits of representation models and the unbridgeable gap between the vectorial epistemic regime of techno-capitalism and lived experience."
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Ketan Joshi
5 months ago
Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social
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Justin Hendrix
5 months ago
Someone distributing anonymous fliers to residents: "The fliers say that the generators are low emissions and are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Shelby county health department. Both of those agencies have said they did not issue permits for xAI’s gas generators."
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Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer
Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
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Ingrid Burrington
5 months ago
Not to be missed!!
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Últimas plazas para mañana 24 * * * :~ April 26 Sat 10:00h 2025 Barcelona Internet Tour Free Tour Mode — 5 hops max, 180 min, max 40 body packets
www.eventbrite.es/e/internet-t...
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Internet Tour Barcelona
Ven a recorrer los rincones más cool de Internet por Barcelona. ¡No te lo pierdas!
https://www.eventbrite.es/e/internet-tour-barcelona-tickets-1322719813569?aff=oddtdtcreator
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"Zones of Offensive Opacity: an essay on carnival, invisibility and e-scapism" By Daniela Vaccaro
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Zones of Offensive Opacity: an essay on carnival, invisibility and e-scapism — Becoming Press
Becoming is a Machine specialising in para-academic and Minor literature.
https://becoming.press/zones-of-offensive-opacity-an-essay-on-carnival,-invisibility-and-e-scapism-1
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Amy Orben
6 months ago
New Paper! I'm truly excited to share
@natematias.bsky.social
and my new Policy Forum in Science published yesterday. We evaluate science's ability to address technological harms, and offer recommendations for what could be done to improve on the status quo:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Fixing the science of digital technology harms
Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt6807
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elDiario.es
6 months ago
La mitad de la población sudanesa (unos 26 millones) no tiene suficiente alimento y casi 13 millones de personas han abandonado su hogar. Los dos años de guerra en Sudán desembocan en la peor crisis de desplazamiento y hambre del mundo
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Dos años de guerra en Sudán desembocan en la peor crisis de desplazamiento y hambre del mundo
La mitad de la población sudanesa (unos 26 millones) no tiene suficiente alimento. Casi 13 millones de personas han abandonado sus hogares desde 2023 y se han desplazado dentro de Sudán o han cruzado ...
https://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/anos-guerra-sudan-desembocan-peor-crisis-desplazamiento-hambre-mundo_1_12220065.html
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Nueva ruta por el Internet en Barcelona el 26 de abril Free Tour Mode — 5 hops max, 180 min, max 40 body packets
internetour.com
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Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic arts, music and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.
2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
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Open calls – Algorithmic Pattern
https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
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Régine Debatty
6 months ago
Call for the
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Immersive Art and Nature Residencies is Extended! The residency program aims to create socio-ecological connections, integrating nature and the latest immersive technologies and blurring the boundaries between technology and nature.
rixc.org/en/home___/0...
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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
@theguardian.com
@lukewbarratt.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
6 months ago
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César Rendueles
6 months ago
Hoy a las 19:00, en el
@cbamadrid.es
, Layla Martínez,
@albertosantamaria.bsky.social
y yo estaremos conversando sobre J.G. Ballard.
www.circulobellasartes.com/humanidades/...
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J. G. Ballard: mitologías del futuro, desastres del presente - Círculo de Bellas Artes
El lugar que ocupa la obra del escritor británico James Graham Ballard (1930-2009) en el mapa de la cultura (y la contracultura) contemporánea es extrañamente
https://www.circulobellasartes.com/humanidades/j-g-ballard-mitologias-del-futuro-desastres-del-presente/
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elDiario.es
6 months ago
INVESTIGACIÓN | El juez Pedraz obtiene la prueba de que la brigada política del PP orquestó el bulo del dinero de Pablo Iglesias en el Caribe
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El juez Pedraz obtiene la prueba de que la brigada política del PP orquestó el bulo del dinero de Pablo Iglesias en el Caribe
La actual dirección del Cuerpo envía a la Audiencia Nacional la nota informativa que redactaron dos destacados miembros de la policía política en abril de 2016 sobre una falsa cuenta del líder de Pode...
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/juez-pedraz-obtiene-prueba-brigada-politica-pp-orquesto-bulo-dinero-pablo-iglesias-caribe_1_12188356.html
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"We need to start collectively practicing “data kindness.”" by
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and
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time.com/7273469/data...
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How to Be Kind in a World That's Always Monitoring You
If we want to live in a more ethical data-driven world, we’re going to have to manage it ourselves.
https://time.com/7273469/data-monitoring-kindness-essay/
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Marea Cable Landing (Meta-Facebook, Microsoft, Telxius) Arrietara Beach, Sopela, Biscay 2021
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Avui, hoy! Imperdible!
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Régine Debatty
6 months ago
A fascinating interview with Mahmoud Alhaj whose practice takes the form of photomontages & films that capture the evolution of the war tactics and technologies used in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories, which for generations have been turned into a military laboratory by Israel.
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José Luis Espejo en
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, entrevista por Roc Jimenez de Cisneros y Anna Ramos.
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Son[i]a #423. José Luis Espejo | Podcast | Radio Web MACBA | RWM Podcasts
Hablamos de cachalotes, de delfines, de barcos, de lámparas, de tratados comerciales y de los ecos de esta historia que resuenan hoy, en plena crisis climática.
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-423-jose-luis-espejo/
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last week Infrastructural ethnography workshop: energy - Session I Máster en Diseño Sostenible, Istituto Europeo di Design pic 1, New data center BCN1 Digital Realty, Sant Adrià Besòs
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Playing with driving fatigue detector on my computer
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nobody.live
is a website that randomly shows users twitch streams with zero viewers The collective
iocose.bsky.social
did something similar with First-Viewer Television in 2012
iocose.org/works/first-...
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Subsea fibre cables can 'listen out' for sabotage
Ways are being developed for subsea cables to "sense" whether they are being disturbed or attacked.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn52rglxr62o
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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers
Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.
https://futurism.com/google-suicide-teen-research
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Octubre 2021<br>Ruta de autor 2/5<br>per Mario Santamaria
Barcelona Internet Tour Internet Tour és un operador turístic centrat en el fenomen d'Internet. S'organitzen rutes en autocar per la infraestructura material d'Internet, en un viatge que dura aproxima...
https://graf.cat/barcelona-internet-tour/
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Cables submarinos: el flanco más débil de las infraestructuras estratégicas en Europa
Una sucesión de incidentes de calado dispara las alarmas y cuestiona la seguridad de unos tubos cada vez más importantes para las comunicaciones y la energía del continente
https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-03-09/cables-submarinos-el-flanco-mas-debil-de-las-infraestructuras-criticas-europeas.html
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The Internet Used to Be a Place – Now We Just Live Here
An analysis of the overuse of the internet in Gen Z culture.
https://www.intersectmagazine.com/post/the-internet-used-to-be-a-place-now-we-just-live-here
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