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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A Tour of AI — Santa Clara, Silicon Valley. On October 3, Alex @alexsaum.bsky.social and I will lead a walking artwork through Santa Clara’s AI infrastructure. 🎟️ Tickets: internetour.com #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SiliconValley #SantaClara #DataCenters #NewMedia #ArtAndTechnology
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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Friends of the Bay! @mariosantamaria.bsky.social and I are taking folks on a new tourist experience! Join us on October 3rd for **A TOUR OF AI** and help us beat the algorithm together ✨💕 www.eventbrite.com/e/a-tour-of-...
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A Tour of AI, with Mario Santamaría and Alex Saum
An In-Person Journey through Santa Clara’s AI Infrastructure: A Tourist Route of Non-Touristic Places and Prompts
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Some highlights: ⚡ Discover Lightcone Research, a new initiative from BIDS and CNRS 🪐 Read about BCBI with funding for #BioJupyter 🖼️ Starting Sept 3, visit the “Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations” exhibition Check it out! eepurl.com/tl7ESxsFWK
BIDS logo centered and at the top of the newsletter, with two featured news articles below it.
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Feed: "Gregory Chatonsky" By: chaton on Sunday, June 28, 2026
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Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations – UC Berkeley, USA
This exhibition examines some of the concealed dimensions of contemporary AI culture—the planetary infrastructures of extraction and computation, the often-invisible human labor, the latent vector spaces within which culture is compressed and processed, and the models’ hallucinations. Hidden Layers tackles these phenomena from two perspectives: AI Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations.  Participating artists include Nouf Aljowaysir, Gašper Beguš,…
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Terry Taplin @taplinterry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check out the Worth Ryder Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition "Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations"! 🖼 September 3 - October 3 | UC Berkeley 116 Anthropology + Art Practice Building More Info: art.berkeley.edu/gallery
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Check out this new exhibition premiering at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery! The exhibition Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations brings together 17 artists and researchers to make visible what AI keeps out of sight.
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Exhibit: Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations
Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 am - In a neural network, the hidden layers are the unseen strata between input and output. In this exhibit, seventeen international artists make visible what AI keeps out of sight.
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
...processed, and the models’ hallucinations. Featuring works by Nouf Aljowaysir; Gašper and Nina Beguš & Metahaven; Grégory Chatonsky; Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler; Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller; Andrea Khôra; Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage; Greg Niemeyer; and Mario Santamaria & Alex Saum-Pascual.
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The "Hidden Layers" exhibition examines some of the concealed dimensions of contemporary AI culture — the planetary infrastructures of extraction and computation, the often invisible human labor, the latent vector spaces within which culture is compressed and... events.berkeley.edu/art/event/32...
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Exhibition Opening Reception: “Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations”
Please join us for an opening reception for the exhibition Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery. Thi...
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/07/2026
Years ago we did a call about having me do an internet infrastructure walk in the movie and I ultimately recommended he reach out to Mario Santamaría in Barcelona instead--which worked so well in the movie!
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/07/2026
But Dylan Riebling's documentary The End of the Internet is really good, happy to have made its US premiere!! www.dylanreibling.com/portfolio/th...
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The End of the Internet
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Ad Avilés la prima Biennale Climatica: arte per provare l’inatteso - Il Giornale dell'Arte
Ad Avilés la prima Biennale Climatica: arte per provare l’inatteso
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Hac Te, Hub d'Art, Ciència i Tecnologia de Barcelona @hactebcn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
El 17 de juny, la redACTS organitza la IV edició de l’Open Forum on Arts, Science & Technology en el marc del festival RAIN Film Fest, un espai d’intercanvi transdisciplinari que permet explorar les relacions entre les arts, la ciència i la tecnologia en un context d'escolta i aprenentatge mutu. 🎬🤖
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Hac Te, Hub d'Art, Ciència i Tecnologia de Barcelona @hactebcn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
10 artistes de diferents àmbits disciplinars compartiran les seves recerques i ens endisarem en el projecte de residència GRAPA IV de Mario Santamaría. 🗓️17 de juny, 17h 📍Campus del Poblenou de la UPF Amb el suport de la Fundació Carasso i el Departament de Cultura eventum.upf.edu/153848/detai...
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RAIN FILM FEST 2026 - IV Open Forum on Arts, Science & Technology
IV OPEN FORUM ON ARTS, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Impulsat per la redACTS, la IV edició de l’Open Forum on Arts, Science una obertura de processos de recerca vius on artistxs, científicxs, acadèmicxs i tecn...
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Review of Art Meets Radical Openess festival: From the ashes of the burnout machines www.makery.info/en/2026/05/1...
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Dear tired eyes, Once again, infrastructure tourism, 28 * * * :~ Jun 6 Sat 11:00h — 14.00h 2026 Barcelona Internet Tour 5 hops max, 180 min, max 35 body packets internetour.com
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Show Me a Ghost (2017), my project on machine vision and the hidden protocols behind digital images and the internet, will soon be exhibited again as part of Shadow Creatures – From Spirit Photography to the Ghosts of the Algorithm at Fotomuseum Winterthur. www.fotomuseum.ch/en/exhibitio...
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Tania @eadeeva.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Gabrielle Goliath lleva años utilizando la práctica del duelo grupal en sus obras, y hace unos meses se la censuró en la Bienal por incluir en su duelo-homenaje a la poeta Heba Abu Nada. Hoy, sin embargo, os cuento que podéis ver alguna de sus obras en Madrid. www.eldiario.es/cultura/arte...
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Gabrielle Goliath, la artista sudafricana censurada en la Bienal de Venecia por defender la causa palestina
La exposición colectiva 'El lado caliente', título tomado de un texto de Alana S. Portero, recoge una obra de esta autora en la que se aborda el duelo como acto político
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Join our Data Center Policy in Practice training on energy on May 27 at 1pm ET. We’ll demystify the data center industry’s false promises around energy efficiency and “clean data centers” and discuss policies for actual ratepayer and energy grid protection. bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Nueva edición de Internet Tour, turismo de infraestructuras en Barcelona prox 6 Junio ☁️🔥🐍 Entradas disponibles en: internetour.com
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Internet Tour
Collective explorations in the physical Internet infrastructure,
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
soon AMRO 2026 www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/amro26-becom...
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Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine – AMRO: Becoming Unreadable
Art Meets Radical Openness is a biennial community festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures. The 2026 edition Becoming Unreadable ...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Adding the Data Center Proposal Tracker, a "citizen-run collaborative mapping project [that] tracks and visualizes proposed data center projects and related development activity in the [US], aggregating public records, company announcements, and local news into a single searchable database."
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Data Center Proposal Tracker
Explore data center proposals across the United States. Stay informed on AI-driven growth and infrastructure projects shaping the future.
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
AMRO26 🔥 Becoming Unreadable 13th–16th May 2026, Linz Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture Art Meets Radical Openness is a biennial community festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures. radical-openness.org
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Eudald Espluga @eudaldec.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Això és avui, a Girona. Amb @ingridguardiola.bsky.social per parlar d'imaginaris tecnosocials, col•lapses i protocols. Veniu! @raigverd.bsky.social
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Hangar, Centre de Producció i Recerca Artística @hangarorg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🖇️GRAPA 4: ‘Canonades zombis’ amb Mario Santamaría 🔴Convocatòria oberta🔴 Amb CCCB @hactebcn.bsky.social @fundacioncarasso.bsky.social i Red Acts 🔗 hangar.org/ca/agenda-ha...
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Neural @neural-mag.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Neural: Mario Santamaría - Emerald Black Latency, the technological latency of the green screen - neural.it/2026/02/emer... #newmediaart
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
============== Zombie Pipelines ============== GRAPA 4 CCCB & Hangar Barcelona hangar.org/en/agenda-ha...
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Bienal Climática 2026: arte, industria y territorio desde Asturias - exibart.es
La Bienal Climática 2026 reúne en Avilés a más de 40 artistas para explorar arte, industria y transición ecológica.
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Logique du capitalisme logistique, de la plantation à l'entrepôt
Jacopo Rasmi · Dans leur essai “All incomplete”, Fred Moten et Stefano Harney sondent les infrastructures du capitalisme logistique. Lecture.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
CITY IN THE CLOUD - DATA ON THE GROUND THE ARCHITECTURE OF DATA “This book investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world. www.architekturmuseum.de/en/publicati...
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City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground – Architekturmuseum der TUM
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Got my hard copy. Very beautiful catalog. www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitio...
https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog cover https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog partial toc https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog cover page for my piece “stupid, but costly”
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Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
China y EEUU luchan por dominar la infraestructura global del sXXI. Esa batalla no está teniendo lugar en el ciberespacio ni lo tuvo nunca. No hay un mundo de los píxeles y un mundo de los átomos. Sólo existe este, el nuestro. Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com elpais.com/opinion/2025...
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El salvaje oeste es esto
La expansión territorial para acumular la mayor cantidad de recursos disponibles no es intergaláctica
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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Missed our performance at the #Alhambra? No sweat >>> TRACEROUTE POEMS. Segundo viaje w/ @mariosantamaria.bsky.social <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QK... #Cultur_ALH #elit
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Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje. A cargo de Alex Saum-Pascual y Mario Santamaría. cultur_ALH 2025
YouTube video by Alhambra de Granada
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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Back from Granada & feeling very grateful and lucky. Huge thanks to all the folks at the Patronato de la #Alhambra and the very special people at @universidadgranada.bsky.social --Ana Gallego eres la mejor <3 www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/ #CULTUR_ALH with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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... internetour.com biennalcoda.com #internetinfrastructure #internettour #thecloud
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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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Playtime Audiovisuales @playtime.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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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Radio Web MACBA @radiowebmacba.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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 ...
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Arnaud Pessey @arnaudpc.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
L'artiste @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 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 @pudding.cool · 28/07/2025
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 @marthadark.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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 ...
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:pressure network @femalepressure.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
no to tech fascism
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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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...
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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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.
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La Directa @ladirecta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#TECNOLOGIA | “Els cables submarins que connecten el món sencer repliquen les velles rutes comercials de l’època colonial”, explica la investigadora Miranda Gabbott directa.cat/el-nuvol-que-no-existei… 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
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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Karen Barad en Barcelona, 13 mayo www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad...
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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.
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Radio Web MACBA @radiowebmacba.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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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Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Cloudplexity #291 www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
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