data and dragons, 2013-
xxxx.xxx, 2014, custom designed printed circuit boards, ethernet patch cables, 80/20 aluminum, 80 cm x 450 cm.
Data & Dragons Level 1-3 is an evolving sculpture project which has already been shown in several art shows around the world. The first time the sculpture has taken shape was in Austria, in 2013. At the moment, the workpiece is composed by three installation: the first two under the name Kilohydra: A Love Letter to Chelsea and xxxx.xxx and the third is Cloud Farming. Each of them dialogue with data collected from the internet, but in different ways.
Data and Dragons: Cloud Farming, 2014 custom designed printed circuit boards, ethernet patch cables, 80/20 aluminum installation: 31 x 87 x 35 in / 78.7 x 221 x 88.9 cm.
Kilohydra: A Love Letter to Chelsea [Manning] and xxxx.xxx are a series of custom printed circuit boards that intercept and log data from it’s surrounding. Connected by Ethernet cables, Kilohydra anthropomorphizes a server room, a eulogy to a time where the online experience was anonymous and unknown. Information is processed but the sculpture never shares its findings.
Cloud Farming questions the sacred nature of technology by re-contextualizing system hierarchy as a portrait of data. It manifests the cloud, social networks, data, leaks and what forms social capital into a single object. Ultimately its a creative experiment about contemporary power structures as a type of group consciousness, becoming a 3-dimensional map of post-Wikileaks information culture.
Data and Dragons: Kilohydra, 2014, custom designed PCB boards, ethernet patch cables, 80/20 aluminum installation: 75 x 23.75 x 20 in / 190.5 x 60.3 x 50.8 cm.