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''Series of c-prints, research, text, 2015/2021''
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! Type
| Series of C-prints, research, text
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! Year
| 2015 / 2021
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! Venues
| Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion<br />Art Center Los Angeles, 2015
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! Support
| Art Center Los Angeles / MDP
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! 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.
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…


== Description ==
[[Homes of the Internet (text)|read more]]


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.
Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion


[[Homes of the Internet (text)|Read the full text]]
Art Center Los Angeles, 2015


== Exhibition history ==
With the support of Art Center Los Angeles / MDP.
 
Team: Nick Meehan, Selwa Sweidan, Erika Katrina Barbosa, Zhihan Ying
* Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion
* Art Center Los Angeles, 2015


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==


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File:HomesOfInternet-Lead.jpg|Homes of the Internet, series
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Revision as of 04:38, 20 July 2026


Series of c-prints, research, text, 2015/2021

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…

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Biennale di Venezia 2021, Austrian Pavilion

Art Center Los Angeles, 2015

With the support of Art Center Los Angeles / MDP. Team: Nick Meehan, Selwa Sweidan, Erika Katrina Barbosa, Zhihan Ying

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