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States of entanglement : data in the Irish landscape / author and editor, ANNEX: Sven Anderson [and 5 others].
LIBRA HM851 .A666 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- ANNEX (Group), author, editor.
- Anderson, Sven, author, editor.
- Conference Name:
- International Architectural Exhibition (17th : 2021 : Venice, Italy)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital communications--Ireland--Exhibitions.
- Digital communications.
- Telecommunication systems--Ireland--Exhibitions.
- Telecommunication systems.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Ireland--Exhibitions.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Environmental aspects--Ireland--Exhibitions.
- Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations--Ireland--Exhibitions.
- International Architectural Exhibition--(17th : 2021 : Venice, Italy).
- International Architectural Exhibition.
- Information technology--Environmental aspects.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Telecommunication systems--Technological innovations.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Barcelona, Spain : Actar Publishers., 2021.
- Summary:
- As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical infrastructure around data, and its impact on the environment under the spotlight, it hopes to reframe how we understand data production and highlight the myth that information technologies are hidden and without major material manifestations on the landscape. The context for the book is Ireland which has a significant historical role in the evolution of global communications and data infrastructure. In 1866, the world's first transatlantic telegraph cable landed on the West coast of Ireland. In 1901, the inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi transmitted some of the world's first wireless radio messages from Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland. Today, Dublin has overtaken London as the data centre hub of Europe, hosting 25% of all available European server space. And by the year 2027, data centres are forecast to consume a third of Ireland's total electricity demand. The book aims to raise awareness around the hardware of the global internet and Cloud services, which is interwoven with the Irish landscape made manifest through the vast constellation of data centres, fibre optic cable networks, and energy grids that have come to populate its cities and suburbs over recent decades. Exhibition: Irish Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (22.05 - 21.11 2021).
- Contents:
- States of entanglement: introduction / ANNEX
- Part 1: Pavillion.
- Entanglement, the Irish Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 / ANNEX
- From construction to simulation
- Poesis
- Thermal imagery
- Structure and furniture drawings
- Thermal entanglement / Nicole Starosielski
- A room of our time / Catherine Ince
- Part 2: States. Atlas of data infrastructure in Ireland / ANNEX
- Displaced states: the imagined annihilation of time and space / Chris Morash
- Landing states: Valentia Cable Station and sites / Merlo Kelly
- Weedy states: the cybernetic wilderness of data centres / Donal Lally
- Networked states: a tour of Dublin's digital ecosystem / Paul O'Neill
- Contested states: rural geographies of data and energy / Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
- Sensory states: instrumentation and automation in the natural landscape / Fiona McDermott
- Bizarro states: litter and its digital doppelganger / Alan Butler
- Excessive states: not a cloud, but a void / Sven Anderson
- Archival states: data, entropy, and the algorithmised futures of everyday life / David Capener
- Synergistic states: living together through data / Clare Lyster.
- Notes:
- ANNEX (Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lolly, Clare Lyster, Fiona McDermott) -- Title verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781948765596
- 1948765594
- OCLC:
- 1263760561
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