An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places, October 12, 2023 and October 14, 2024

through Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland

with Mario Santamaría (internetour.com)

2023 More info here and more photos here and some social media footage here

2024 More info here and more photos here

An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium special event, presented with the Arts Research Center and as part of BCNM’s Critical Infrastructures and Cultural Analytics program. Co-sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.

with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital 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. 2024 event also counted with the work by the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media.

“Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations” (2023) was also featured at the “More than Meets AI” exhibit, curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O’Kane and Scott Rettberg, on display at the Worth Ryder Gallery, October 2 – 14, 2023.