🌐 On Wednesday, June 10, join Triple Canopy (
@triple_canopy ) and Are.na (
@aredotna ) for presentations and a panel discussion with Becca Abbe (
@cdxs ), Ingrid Burrington (
@lifewinning ), Lai Yi Ohlsen (
@laiyi____ ), and Ruby Justice Thelot (
@being_on_line ).
For “From Earth to Sky,” Abbe, Burrington, Ohlsen, and Thelot will interrogate the metaphorical language surrounding the internet and investigate what these metaphors reveal about the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they became popular.
The terminology used to describe the internet often relies on figurative language that ties it to the physical world: Servers live on farms, music and movies arrive via streams, and a lifetime of data floats, allegedly weightless, in the cloud. While these figures of speech suggest a bucolic digital terrain, they often obscure the actual physical infrastructures and material resources that undergird the web, as well as the complex social and economic dynamics that determine how people interact on and access the internet.
From the cloud ☁️ to the dark forest 🌲, the technologists, writers, and artists will explore the symbolic landscapes produced by the internet’s metaphors through four short presentations and a panel discussion.
🔗 RSVP to the event through the link in our profiles.
