The Future Behind Us | Ep. #6: Chasing the Physicality of the Internet [w/ Evan Roth]


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Aug 28 2024 39 mins  

Internet has obliterated borders, distances and other hallmarks of geography, making us forget its material reality: its data centres, wires, routers, processors and a vast network of intercontinental cables. Artist Evan Roth has travelled the globe to make infrared videos of coastal landscapes where fiberoptic submarine cables emerge from the sea to enable communication across oceans.
Contemplating the infrastructure that makes and shapes the internet helps us see through the digital noise, find new ways to share space with people we’ve never met and delineate a more complex picture of the vulnerabilities and complexities that shape the dynamics and geopolitics of 21st-century communication systems.









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Evan Roth
https://www.evan-roth.com

Red Lines
https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/red-lines

Books mentioned in the conversation:

Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, 2012 (Ecco)
https://www.andrewblum.net/tubes-2

Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, 2014 (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062598/thepeoplesplatform

Arden Reed, Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell, 2019 (University of California Press)
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300583/slow-art







COLOPHON



Host: Régine Debatty
Guest: Evan Roth 



Recording: Régine Debatty
Music, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar



The Future Behind Us podcast series



Curated by: Régine Debatty
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša

Produced by: Marcela Okretič



Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024



Part of:
PXXP•XXV: Speculation and Decay

Conceived and co-organised by:
Aksioma



For:
Pixxelpoint – 25th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices



Produced and co-organised by:
Nova Gorica Arts Centre



In the framework of:
GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025



Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica


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