Tributary
Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal s...
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ftqueensubelpubl:oai:pure.qub.ac.uk/portal:publications/c377090b-ff59-48c0-bdfd-6871a08e271b 2024-05-12T08:05:47+00:00 Tributary Davoll, James Dolan, Paul Howson, Pete 2023-05-08 https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/c377090b-ff59-48c0-bdfd-6871a08e271b https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3798 eng eng https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/c377090b-ff59-48c0-bdfd-6871a08e271b info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Davoll , J , Dolan , P & Howson , P 2023 , ' Tributary ' Journal of Anthropological Films , vol. 7 , no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3798 data human infrastructures energy digital culture other 2023 ftqueensubelpubl https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3798 2024-04-18T00:01:09Z Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal sources to the infrastructure required to power and house these physical locations of intensive computational processing. Created from a combination of traditional and experimental field recording techniques made within Iceland and the UK, Tributary aims to problematise the notion of 'green' data centres. It showcases the intensive energy requirements required to prop up the digital infrastructure of contemporary life. These include cryptocurrency mining, cloud storage, digital image production and media streaming. Other/Unknown Material Iceland Queen's University Belfast Research Portal Journal of Anthropological Films 7 01 |
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Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal sources to the infrastructure required to power and house these physical locations of intensive computational processing. Created from a combination of traditional and experimental field recording techniques made within Iceland and the UK, Tributary aims to problematise the notion of 'green' data centres. It showcases the intensive energy requirements required to prop up the digital infrastructure of contemporary life. These include cryptocurrency mining, cloud storage, digital image production and media streaming. |
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