(re)programming: The Cloud
<p><strong>Everything is Not Connected</strong></p> <p>Joana Moll is a Barcelona/Berlin-based artist and researcher. Her work moves towards a crossover between art and investigative journalism with the aim to make public the hidden costs of techno-capitalism. Back in 2013, her research began with an epiphany: services like Google do not come for free, without environmental costs. As her research has proven since then, not only does the internet have a huge impact on ecosystems, but e-commerce services, browsers, dating apps and surveillance systems extract data and energy from unwitting users. What happens when we purchase an item on Amazon? Who owns the profile images posted on dating apps? How many trees are needed to absorb the amount of CO<sub>2</sub> generated by the global visits to google.com every second? Through the artistic outputs of her findings, Joana Moll transforms these revelations into tangible concepts fostering awareness in the collective consciousness of the footprint caused by our use of the Cloud.</p>
Authors: Marta Peirano
Contributors: Joana Moll
Guest: Dušan Caf, Luka Frelih, Filip Muki Dobranić
Editing, Audio Mix & Musician: Gašper Torkar
Producer: Janez Fakin Janša, Marcela Okretič
Project Coordinator: Sonja Grdina
Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art
Part of: Tactics&Practice [podcast]