Tangible Cloud

Tangible Cloud gathered thirty people from different backgrounds (artists, designers, philosophers, economists, etc.) in two worksessions, which took place in May and June 2022 in Brussels. Together, they tried to imagine, through artistic practices, counter-narratives to the mainstream vision of digital: cloud computing.

A set of interviews was conducted with all participants in December 2023, follwing the worksessions, and a resitution of all the production was set in March 2023, at the KBK Gallery in Brussels.

This project was supported by ÉSA Le 75 and FRArt. It was initiated by Alex Leray, Antoine Gelgon, Romain Marula and Marianne Plano.

Counter-Narratives Worksession 18 - 21 May 2022 Green Fabric
Brussels
Technological Myths Worksession 21 - 25 June 2022 Green Fabric
Brussels
Tangible Cloud at KBK Exhibition 3 - 5 March 2023 Galerie KBK
Brussels
Cloud Computing as Infrastructure en Seda Gürses Counter-Narratives Lecture
Infrables en The Institute for Technology in the Public InterestStevie Ango, Clyde Lepage Counter-Narratives Tangible Cloud at KBK Collective writting Performance Interview
Re-Used Infrastructure en Dennis de Bel Counter-Narratives Presentation Interview
Artistic Operating Systems
+ Digital Slöjd en Brendan Howell Counter-Narratives Presentation Workshop Interview
Contingent Librarian en Simon Browne Counter-Narratives Presentation Interview
Life-Cycle Assessment as the Structure en Benjamin Gaulon Counter-Narratives Presentation Interview
From Appropriate Technology
to Permacomputing en Marloes de Valk Counter-Narratives Tangible Cloud at KBK Presentation Workshop Interview
Parer à l’imprésentable fr Adrien Payet Counter-Narratives Lecture Interview
Mining the Cloud en Sofia Boschat-Thorez Counter-Narratives Presentation Interview
Impacts environnementaux du numérique
+ Métaphores visuelles et enjeux de matérialité fr Thomas Thibault Counter-Narratives Presentation Workshop Interview
The Magical Relation to AI or
How to Live With Technical Alienation en Tyler Reigeluth Technological Myths Presentation Interview
Perception as infrastructure,
the case of computer vision en Nicolas Malevé Technological Myths Presentation Interview
Everyone everywhere all at once
+ Be? Here? Now? en Dasha Ilina Technological Myths Tangible Cloud at KBK Presentation Workshop Interview
Atlas of the Cloud
+ World Brain fr Stéphane Degoutin Technological Myths Presentation Projection Interview
Unfuck Nature with a Click:
Green Tech, Smart, Porn, & a bunch
of Technosolutionism en Davide Bevilacqua Technological Myths Lecture Interview

Unfuck Nature with a Click:
Green Tech, Smart, Porn, & a bunch
of Technosolutionism

Davide Bevilacqua

Lecture Interview
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with Davide Bevilacqua

About

Davide Bevilacqua is a media artist and a curator interested on one side in network infrastructures and technological activism, and on the other in curatorial and artistic research about the framework condition in which artistic practice is presented and transmitted to the audience. His current topics of research are the internet sustainability and environmental impact of technologies, digital greenwashing practices and platform capitalism. He is a part of the artist collective qujOchÖ, he collaborates with the sound art gallery bb15, and he works with Servus.at, an association dealing with open source internet infrastructure and online art and culture. He organizes the community festival AMRO (Art Meets Radical Openness).

Plonger dans la machine fr Lionel Maes Technological Myths Lecture Interview
Nuage Sensible fr Élie Bolard Technological Myths Tangible Cloud at KBK Presentation Workshop Interview
A Traversal Network
of Feminist Servers en Wendy Van WynsbergheMartino Morandi Counter-Narratives Presentation Interview

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