For In and Out of Place. Land after Information 1992 – 2024 the Kunstverein in Hamburg brings together a number of practices that look at the transformation of land in the information age and explore the manifold connections and consequences of land’s perpetual translation into resources to fuel the third industrial revolution. The aim of the exhibition is to contribute to a better understanding of the metabolic relationships between forms of knowing and their material echoes into the world, both as epistemological and earthbound resources, locally and globally, within the Anthropocene. Here, situated knowledge contrasts the seemingly invisible processes of digital dematerialisation rooted in the planetary surface under the ever-increasing weight of the digital cloud, the unmeetable demand for minerals to enable microchip production, and the endless distances travelled by underwater cables to support the hunger for global data flows, whose most recent growth spurt is brought about by the advent of large-scale language models in artificial intelligence.
Curated by Milan Ther & Dr. Martin Karcher.