Re: <nettime> Internet Tour - San Francisco Bay Area. Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

[Brian Holmes via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Bravo Mario, this sounds absolutely brilliant! Entire worthy of Ramón
Llull's memory.

I wish I would be in San francisco on that day, and I wish you luck with
the whole project,

Brian

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:36 AM mario santamaria via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> Dear all, (sorry for crossposting)
>
> It is a pleasure to invite you to this very special Internet Tour.
> 4 hours, a fake tech bus, unlimited fun
>
> *Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations*
> San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland.
>
> 12 Oct 2023
>
> An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a
> tourist route of non-touristic places.
>
> With Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of
> Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California,
> Berkeley; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of
> Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi,
> Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice,
> University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright,
> Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of
> Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley.
>
> Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current
> explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization
> as immaterial technologies. The idea of clean, ethereal networks whose data
> is stored in a bodiless Cloud is nothing but a fallacy that hides thousands
> of miles of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers, and increasing
> global energy consumption. The Internet that feeds and fuels AI is made up
> of a series of materials, constructions, and interventions that are hidden
> from the naked eye; from inconspicuous buildings in the centers of our
> cities, to urban beaches where the undersea cables that connect countries
> and continents are buried under the sand.
>
> “Internet Tour” is an initiative by Barcelona-based artist Mario
> Santamaría, whose successful bus tours have explored the hidden digital
> infrastructures of many European cities. Now in Berkeley, in collaboration
> with Alex Saum-Pascual, and together with the Berkeley Center for New Media
> and the Arts Research Center, we’ll embark on a collective exploration of
> the world’s preeminent technology hub, the San Francisco Bay Area, as we
> unearth its Internet infrastructure. Traveling by bus and on foot across
> Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland, this guided tour will also feature
> poetic and artistic experiences. We’ll visit the places through which our
> voices, images, cryptocurrencies, and future intelligences circulate as
> cursed matter that flows from the same wound. Where to go from there?
>
> An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium special event, presented with
> the Arts Research Center and as part of BCNM's Critical Infrastructures and
> Cultural Analytics program. Co-sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull, the Peder
> Sather Center for Advanced Study, and the Department of Spanish and
> Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
>
> Also part of the exhibition: *More Than Meets AI.* Curated by Jill Miller,
> Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, this exhibition emerges from a Peder
> Sather Center for Advanced Study research project titled “Transformation
> and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human
> Creativity.” The project is focused on the aesthetic and cultural impacts
> of AI, and will result both in art exhibitions and research cooperation
> between the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative and UC
> Berkeley.
> More info and tickets:
>
> https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/205768-internet-tour-invisible-infrastructures-and-ai
>
> *Others Internet Tour editions:*
>
> Barcelona (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
> Madrid (2018, 2023)
> Zaragoza (2019)
> Bizkaia (2020)
> Urbino (2020)
> Hospitalet (2022)
> Lleida (2022)
> Berlin (2022)
> Burgos (2023)
> Palma (2023)
>
> More info: http://internetour.com/
>
>
> best,
>
> Mario Santamaría
> www.mariosantamaria.net
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