[NetBehaviour] Internet Tour - San Francisco Bay Area. Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

Fri Sep 29 19:12:28 CEST 2023

I wish! Sounds great!! 

Hope to catch it someday somewhere. Maybe in NYC someday? :-) 

Best, 

Ursula 

On 2023-09-28 06:37, mario santamaria wrote:

> Dear all, (sorry for crossposting) 
> 
> It is a pleasure to invite you to this very special Internet Tour.  
> 
> 4 hours, a fake tech bus, unlimited fun 
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> INTERNET TOUR: INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURES AND AI HALLUCINATIONS 
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> San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland. 
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> 12 Oct 2023 
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> An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places. 
> 
> With Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. 
> 
> Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization as immaterial technologies. The idea of clean, ethereal networks whose data is stored in a bodiless Cloud is nothing but a fallacy that hides thousands of miles of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers, and increasing global energy consumption. The Internet that feeds and fuels AI is made up of a series of materials, constructions, and interventions that are hidden from the naked eye; from inconspicuous buildings in the centers of our cities, to urban beaches where the undersea cables that connect countries and continents are buried under the sand. 
> 
> "Internet Tour" is an initiative by Barcelona-based artist Mario Santamaría, whose successful bus tours have explored the hidden digital infrastructures of many European cities. Now in Berkeley, in collaboration with Alex Saum-Pascual, and together with the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Arts Research Center, we'll embark on a collective exploration of the world's preeminent technology hub, the San Francisco Bay Area, as we unearth its Internet infrastructure. Traveling by bus and on foot across Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland, this guided tour will also feature poetic and artistic experiences. We'll visit the places through which our voices, images, cryptocurrencies, and future intelligences circulate as cursed matter that flows from the same wound. Where to go from there?
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> An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium special event, presented with the Arts Research Center and as part of BCNM's Critical Infrastructures and Cultural Analytics program. Co-sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. 
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> Also part of the exhibition: _More Than Meets AI._ Curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, this exhibition emerges from a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study research project titled "Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity." The project is focused on the aesthetic and cultural impacts of AI, and will result both in art exhibitions and research cooperation between the University of Bergen's Center for Digital Narrative and UC Berkeley. 
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> More info and tickets: https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/205768-internet-tour-invisible-infrastructures-and-ai [1] 
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> OTHERS INTERNET TOUR EDITIONS: 
> 
> Barcelona (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023) 
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> Madrid (2018, 2023) 
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> Zaragoza (2019) 
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> Bizkaia (2020) 
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> Urbino (2020) 
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> Hospitalet (2022) 
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> Lleida (2022) 
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> Berlin (2022) 
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> Burgos (2023) 
> 
> Palma (2023) 
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> More info: http://internetour.com/ [2] 
> 
> best, 
> 
> Mario Santamaría
> www.mariosantamaria.net [3]
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> Tourist Guide
> https://internetour.com [4]
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> Studio: Trama 34. L'Hospitalet, Barcelona
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> e: info at mariosantamaria.net  tw: @m_msanta
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> m: +0034 651 109 724 
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URSULA ENDLICHER 
www.ursenal.net 
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CURRENTLY: 

- WALKS&TALKS of Input Field reversal #3 and Custom HTML Plant Tags at
Harvestworks on Governors Island, NYC, every Saturday at 2:30 + 4:30p
till October 29

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: 
- "The Process", Harvestworks, Governors Island, Nolan Park Building
10A, Opening June 30. Runs until October 29, 2023 
CURRENT  WORKS: 
- "Custom HTML Plant Tags" (AR based), 2023 
- "Input Field reversal #3" (Interactive/real-time data driven browser
garden), 2023 

RECENT EXHIBITS:  
-"Earthbound", HEK, Basel, Switzerland, Sept.3-Nov.13, 2022 
-"From Forces To Form", Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, Feb 15-April 27,
2022 
PUBLICATIONS&CONTRIBUTIONS / PRESS: 
- Processing Community Catalog, New York 2023 
- Coding Care, Hatje Kantz Verlag, Berlin, 2022 
- "Beyond the Art/Science Duality - A conversation with Ellen K.Levy",
Joyce Beckenstein, sculpture magazine.art, Dec.8, 2022 
- "Collections HEK", Brian Droitcour, Outland.art, Nov.2, 2022 

Links:
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[1]
https://events.berkeley.edu/arc/event/205768-internet-tour-invisible-infrastructures-and-ai
[2] http://internetour.com/
[3] http://www.mariosantamaria.net
[4] https://t.co/VRcqZjU2D6
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