The Future Behind Us: Chasing the Physicality of the Internet

<p>The 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.</p> <p>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 21<sup>st</sup>-century communication systems.</p>

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Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art

Part of: Tactics&Practice [podcast]

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