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| Type | Series of C-prints, research, text |
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| Year | 2015 / 2021 |
| Venues | Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion Art Center Los Angeles, 2015 |
| Support | Art Center Los Angeles / MDP |
| Team | Nick Meehan, Selwa Sweidan, Erika Katrina Barbosa, Zhihan Ying |
Homes of the Internet (2015/2021) is a series of C-prints, research, and text by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest documenting the domestic architecture that houses the internet's physical infrastructure.
Description
A clone of modernish Californian architecture: subdivided into multiple sandy volumes, decorated with large and long white studio windows, a pergola, palm trees, banana plants, and the American flag. The building is a suburban home of the Internet: a cable landing point in technical terminology. It houses "critical infrastructure" — those fibre optic cables of which Google has already quietly purchased 102,362 km to build up and out its very own internet of tomorrow. As one of many dispersed "fibre huts," this house embodies above ground what actually sits below: 1,126,540 km of submarine cables networked into a contemporary version of the Roman road system (Lovink, 2019). While Google concentrates on South America with the cables, it aims at Africa with its balloons.
Exhibition history
- Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion
- Art Center Los Angeles, 2015
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