Join us for a DataLab session on "Visualising the Data Centre" on 20 May at Linköping U and online

[Julia Velkova]

Dear all,

 

I would like to invite you to join us for a hybrid show-and-tell event on the theme of “Visualising the Data Centre” on 20 May 13:15-15:00 CET as part of our DataLab events at Linköping University in Sweden. See attached our poster.

 

During this session we will present visual and multimodal research on data infrastructures from our research project “Megabytes vs Megawatts: Understanding Infrastructural Frictions between Data Centers and Energy Grids for Sustainable Digitalization”. We will introduce and discuss four very different kinds of outputs: an exhibition exploring the cloud’s materialities and landscapes, an interactive narrative game concerning a data centre’s energy negotiations, pop-up books visualising data’s energy landscapes, and a collage re-imagining the cloud through the figure of a jellyfish. 

 

Presenters:

Flora Mary Bartlett

Johanna Sefyrin

Julia Velkova

Laura Watts

 

Location: Linköping University, campus Valla, Temahuset and on zoom

If you'd like to join us online, please contact dat...@liu.se for the zoom link by 19 May!

 

Everyone is welcome, in person or online!

 

We can offer some support towards the travel costs of a limited number of early career scholars and PhD candidates who would like to attend in person. Please reach out to dat...@liu.se if you would like to use the travel support.

 

Read more about the DataLab here: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema/temas-datalab

 

Best

Julia Velkova, Katherine Harrison and Hannah Devinney

 

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Julia Velkova, PhD

Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies & of Technology and Social Change

Co-chair DATA LAB

ProFutura Scientia Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies  

Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University

Tel: +46 13 28 40 25

web: www.juliavelkova.org