14 Oct, 2024 Art, Tech & Culture

Internet Tour

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places

by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media, and the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research Center. Read more

12 Oct, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture

Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places

with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley Read more

09 Dec, 2025
Detail from figure mapping the global ecology of AI infrastructure

Below the Cloud: A Community Workshop featuring AI Systems, Ecology, and Embroidery

The Berkeley Center for New Media is proud to support Below the Cloud, a symposium and workshop organized by Danika Cooper and Victoria Mohr (Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning) that will invite viewers to shift their gaze from the sky to the ground by tracing the environmental and social costs embedded within AI infrastructures, with a particular focus on water. Read more