[ISEA2022] Workshop: Mario Santamaría — Lleida internet tour

Workshop Statement

October 24-28. From La Panera. ISEA2022 Extended Programme

The idea of the Internet understood as a clean and ethereal network whose data is stored in “the cloud” is nothing more than a fallacy that tries to hide the thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers and a growing overall energy consumption. The network is made up of a series of materials, constructions and interventions that are hidden from the naked eye: from nondescript buildings in the centers of our cities, to urban beaches under whose sand the submarine cables that interconnect countries and continents are buried.

Internet Tour is an initiative of Mario Santamaría that proposes a collective exploration for this physical infrastructure of the Internet, halfway between the tourist route of the non-tourist, the performance and the profane lighting. Accompanied by a guide who introduces each of the points of interest of the visit, attendees board a bus that takes them to visit the places where our emails, messages, likes, comments, videos and photographs circulate. https://internetour.com

http://www.lapanera.cat/ca/programacio/activitats/internet-tour-12-presentacio-publica-dels-resultats-del-taller-de-mario-santamaria

  • Mario Santamaría (Barcelona, Spain) is researcher at the Hangar Interaction and Software Lab.