Timo Arnall, British,
Internet Machine, 2015
Internet Machine is a 3-screen video and sound installation that tours the facilities of one of the world's largest, most secure data centers, run by Telefonica in Alcalá, Spain. Using a wide, slowly moving camera, the artist wanders the hidden architectures of the long corridors of machinery and pipe-lined stone. Arnall describes his intention with this work as being to "look beyond the childish myth of 'the cloud," and rather to truly explore what the infrastructures of the internet look like, to see and internet as the architectural and material system it is — a physical entity of sound and space, not the intangible construct we associate it with. Label by Lelia Cottin-Rack