Book Launch Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies

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Ramon Amaro and Niels Schrader present their new book Acid Clouds, about new ways to look at the ownership and control of data.

Ramon Amaro and Niels Schrader present their new book Acid Clouds, about new ways to look at the ownership and control of data.Niels Schrader and Ramon Amaro present their new book <a href="https://www.nai010.com/en/product/acid-clouds/" title="https://www.nai010.com/en/product/acid-clouds/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Acid Clouds</a>, about new ways to look at the ownership and control of data. The evening will focus on the themes of the book, which explores data centres from different perspectives: from artificial intelligence to machine learning, and from environmental impact to digital capitalism.How do hidden networks influence our digital lives? Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies explores data centres, revealing the political, environmental and social dynamics behind them. Moving beyond the sanitised image of the ‘cloud’, the book exposes the material and ethical complexity of these data structures. Niels Schrader and Ramon Amaro delve deeper into the topics of the book.For more information, please visit the website of <a href="https://www.nai010.com/bericht/boekpresentatie-acid-clouds-mapping-data-centre-topologies-3/" title="https://www.nai010.com/bericht/boekpresentatie-acid-clouds-mapping-data-centre-topologies-3/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nai010 publishers</a>.Niels Schrader is an information designer. He is the founder of the design studio Mind Design and a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). He also writes for Grafikmagazin and Open! Platform for Art, Culture &amp; the Public Domain. As a lecturer, he focuses on the social, political and environmental processes driven and influenced by digital technologies.Ramon Amaro is a Senior Researcher in Digital Culture at the Nieuwe Instituut. Trained as an engineer and sociologist, his writing, research and artistic practice focus on the intersection of Black studies, digital culture, psychosocial studies and the critique of computational reason. His book <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-black-technical-object/" title="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-black-technical-object/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being</a> was published by Sternberg Press in 2023.

Programme<ul><li>Start 19:30</li><li>End 21:00</li></ul>

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