User:Adèle/NorthC: A Data Hotel

A self organized four week residency with Sylvie shaped the first chapter of the script. (Brussels, in the studio of June, Victor, Fen and Eva)
Here is a overview of our activities: Residency with Sylvie

During the first week of our residency we analyzed and tried to understand the language of two data center companies' websites : 
-https://www.northcdatacenters.com/
-https://www.interxion.com/  
From there we began with a writing exercise using images and sentences from the websites.
We also watched the film Castle in the sky produced by the Studio Ghibli and we collected striking screenshots 
These two activities led me to find ways to describe the Cloud as a location, to find the characters of the scene, and inspired drawings and collages.

chapter 1 (NorthC: a data hotel/conductive real estate)

Location:
--> This chapter happens in a Cloud and focuses on two worms inhabiting it: a string of zeros and ones(or a string of data) and a lightning bolt.

wormy characters:
--> The string of data could be a part of the color matrix of an image representing a data center posted on a website or send to a friend on a messenger app.

--> The lightning bolt is an electrostatic discharge between the atmosphere and the ground, two polarized entities. An electrostatic discharge is the release and transmission of electricity in an applied electric field through a medium such as a gas, it occurs when differently-charged objects are brought close together or when the dielectric between them breaks down, often creating a visible spark. (cloud-to-ground action)

Location:

images from left to right: screenshot of Tenkū no Shiro: Laputa. (1986). [Film] Japan: Studio Ghibli. (charged cloud) - data center (powered up)

Characters:

images from left to right: data science representation (the worms in the worm hole) - screenshot of Tenkū no Shiro: Laputa. (1986). [Film] Japan: Studio Ghibli. (electricity worms)

Drawings/collages with Syl

The drawings for this chapter are a collective work with Sylvie

Digital real estate,
2021 collaborative drawing with Sylvie van Wijk
Graphite on found paper

left: screenshot of Tenkū no Shiro: Laputa. (1986). [Film] Japan: Studio Ghibli.

image found on the page «interconnection» of interxion’s website: https://www.interxion.com/products/interconnection

The ExpressRoute,
2021, collaborative drawing with Sylvie van Wijk, first step
Graphite on found paper

The ExpressRoute,
2021, second layer by Sylvie
digital collage

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_discharge

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netflix-carbon-footprint?fbclid=IwAR2iyK0pxxya-29F01VhvqkEIYQY2c2VyoUTUTmV0oM5MBerSC_iS7YibMM

https://www.carbontrust.com/news-and-events/news/updated-calculation-released-on-the-carbon-impact-of-online-video-streaming?fbclid=IwAR3Ml8bhA2sPryTvNWTlsD4KBkAJZrb874bLyGKdhbV9a5U54bET_NLlirU

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/february/dimpact2.html?fbclid=IwAR0KBkXFBPbMfKbUoa9JmowZNqs_TQx9TfVzjB2cMtmntYDPlpARuYNIySw

Mél Hogan, and the environmental media Lab from the university of Calgari, Canada The Data center Industrial Complex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIbZiZR61w&list=PLx7HtJGIlJ0HUvFkUpYxJwZEExpVNQAS1&index=1

Where the internet lives: ventilation sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ9RyPCc44c

Where the internet lives, life of people working for the internet
https://where-the-internet-lives.simplecast.com/

“Where the Internet Lives”, Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure, Jennifer Holt, Patrick Vonderau