Critical Atlas of Dutch Data Centres
Critical Atlas of Dutch Data Centres
Niels Schrader and Roel Backaert are currently working together with editor and publicist Jorinde Seijdel on a publication featuring photos and essays on pressing issues related to the topic of data centres. It will raise urgent ethical and political issues and questions in the field of digital rights, the ownership and administration of big data, the power of large tech companies, public access to information, privacy issues and the vulnerability of data versus their indelibility.
In the book, guest writers will examine the data ethics of the data centres and their administrators / owners, as well as the architecture and structure of the data centres as physical facilities for intangible content: What form do they take, what space do they consume, how do they relate to their natural and built environments, how do they protect their content and how transparent are they in their functioning?
Acid Clouds will include texts by Ramon Amaro, Hanno Bakkeren, Mél Hogan, Michiel van Iersel & Mark Minkjan, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter, Niels Schrader, Jorinde Seijdel, Marina Otero Verzier, Marleen Stikker and Alice Twemlow.
With extensive diagrams, maps, a glossary and a photo series of data centres in the Netherlands woven throughout the book, the publication is also a visual atlas that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape.
The book will be available in 2022 through nai010 publishers. It can be pre-ordered here.
Niels Schrader and Roel Backaert are currently working together with editor and publicist Jorinde Seijdel on a publication featuring photos and essays on pressing issues related to the topic of data centres. It will raise urgent ethical and political issues and questions in the field of digital rights, the ownership and administration of big data, the power of large tech companies, public access to information, privacy issues and the vulnerability of data versus their indelibility.
In the book, guest writers will examine the data ethics of the data centres and their administrators / owners, as well as the architecture and structure of the data centres as physical facilities for intangible content: What form do they take, what space do they consume, how do they relate to their natural and built environments, how do they protect their content and how transparent are they in their functioning?
Acid Clouds will include texts by Ramon Amaro, Hanno Bakkeren, Mél Hogan, Michiel van Iersel & Mark Minkjan, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter, Niels Schrader, Jorinde Seijdel, Marina Otero Verzier, Marleen Stikker and Alice Twemlow.
With extensive diagrams, maps, a glossary and a photo series of data centres in the Netherlands woven throughout the book, the publication is also a visual atlas that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape.
The book will be available in 2022 through nai010 publishers. It can be pre-ordered here.
