<nettime> Internet Tour - San Francisco Bay Area - 2024

[mario santamaria via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear all, (sorry for crossposting)


It is a pleasure to invite you to the second edition of Internet Tour in
the San Francisco Bay Area. We have ready a fake tech bus, data centers,
lithium and turbo-capitalist ruins, if you couldn't come to the first one,
second chance, always maybe the last chance.


Internet Tour returns to the Bay Area as part of the Berkeley Center for
New Media's 20th year anniversary, with the Arts Research Center and
co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.


Photos last edition:

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAYwzD



*Internet Tour. San Francisco Bay Area*

Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland.


14 Oct 2024


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; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU University,
Barcelona; 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; The Indigenous Poetics Lab, 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 artist Mario Santamaría, returning to
the Bay Area for a second consecutive year, again in collaboration with
Alex Saum-Pascual, and together with the Berkeley Center for New Media and
the Arts Research Center. Together, 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?


More info and tickets:

https://arts.berkeley.edu/news/internet-tour



*Others Internet Tour editions:*


Internet Tour is an open and replicable tour operator focused on the
phenomenon of tele-technologies. Since 2018 its tours have explored the
hidden digital infrastructures in dozens of cities such as Barcelona,
Madrid, Bilbao, Berlin, San Francisco or Paris among many others. Internet
Tour is an initiative by Mario Santamaría that allows us to collectively
explore this physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of
non-tourist places.


Barcelona (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)

Madrid (2018, 2023)

Zaragoza (2019)

Bizkaia (2020)

Urbino (2020)

Hospitalet (2022)

Lleida (2022)

Berlin (2022)

San Francisco Bay Area (2023)

Burgos (2023)

Palma (2023)

Paris (2023)


More info:  http://internetour.com/



best,

Mario Santamaría
www.mariosantamaria.net
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