Mario Santamaría
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social
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Clouded Vision: Artists’ Insights on the Internet | The Brooklyn Rail
The idea of the internet as a shapeless mass of vapor hovering above the ground creates the illusion of a benign and intangible entity. Since its creation, artists have helped dispel this image by loo...
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‘Clouded Vision: Artists’ Insights on the Internet’
Interesting article by Mia Stern for The Brooklyn Rail about artistic practices that approach the materiality of the internet.
brooklynrail.org/2024/07/art-...
Interesting article by Mia Stern for The Brooklyn Rail about artistic practices that approach the materiality of the internet.
brooklynrail.org/2024/07/art-...
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China y EEUU luchan por dominar la infraestructura global del sXXI. Esa batalla no está teniendo lugar en el ciberespacio ni lo tuvo nunca. No hay un mundo de los píxeles y un mundo de los átomos. Sólo existe este, el nuestro.
Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
El salvaje oeste es esto
La expansión territorial para acumular la mayor cantidad de recursos disponibles no es intergaláctica
elpais.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
China y EEUU luchan por dominar la infraestructura global del sXXI. Esa batalla no está teniendo lugar en el ciberespacio ni lo tuvo nunca. No hay un mundo de los píxeles y un mundo de los átomos. Sólo existe este, el nuestro.
Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
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Missed our performance at the #Alhambra? No sweat >>>
TRACEROUTE POEMS. Segundo viaje w/
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QK...
#Cultur_ALH #elit
TRACEROUTE POEMS. Segundo viaje w/
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QK...
#Cultur_ALH #elit
Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje. A cargo de Alex Saum-Pascual y Mario Santamaría. cultur_ALH 2025
YouTube video by Alhambra de Granada
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October 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Missed our performance at the #Alhambra? No sweat >>>
TRACEROUTE POEMS. Segundo viaje w/
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QK...
#Cultur_ALH #elit
TRACEROUTE POEMS. Segundo viaje w/
@mariosantamaria.bsky.social <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QK...
#Cultur_ALH #elit
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Back from Granada & feeling very grateful and lucky. Huge thanks to all the folks at the Patronato de la #Alhambra and the very special people at @universidadgranada.bsky.social --Ana Gallego eres la mejor <3
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Back from Granada & feeling very grateful and lucky. Huge thanks to all the folks at the Patronato de la #Alhambra and the very special people at @universidadgranada.bsky.social --Ana Gallego eres la mejor <3
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
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Soooo happy that the book 'Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement,' co-published by Theatrum Mundi and our very own @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social is out now and available for purchase 📚🌱
It offers new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.
It offers new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.
Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement - Announcements - e-flux
Publication of Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement presented by Theatrum Mundi
www.e-flux.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Soooo happy that the book 'Staging Ground: infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement,' co-published by Theatrum Mundi and our very own @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social is out now and available for purchase 📚🌱
It offers new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.
It offers new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.
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This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Next Internet Tour in Barcelona ☁️🪱🦥
11 October — 11:00 a.m. Zona Franca
Part of CODA • Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia
5 hops max, 120 min, max 30 body packets
🔌 Tickets:
entradium.com/events/inter...
internetour.com
biennalcoda.com
#internetinfrastructure #internettour #thecloud
11 October — 11:00 a.m. Zona Franca
Part of CODA • Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia
5 hops max, 120 min, max 30 body packets
🔌 Tickets:
entradium.com/events/inter...
internetour.com
biennalcoda.com
#internetinfrastructure #internettour #thecloud
September 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Next Internet Tour in Barcelona ☁️🪱🦥
11 October — 11:00 a.m. Zona Franca
Part of CODA • Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia
5 hops max, 120 min, max 30 body packets
🔌 Tickets:
entradium.com/events/inter...
internetour.com
biennalcoda.com
#internetinfrastructure #internettour #thecloud
11 October — 11:00 a.m. Zona Franca
Part of CODA • Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia
5 hops max, 120 min, max 30 body packets
🔌 Tickets:
entradium.com/events/inter...
internetour.com
biennalcoda.com
#internetinfrastructure #internettour #thecloud
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CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)
VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...
VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...
Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH
Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.
www.alhambra-patronato.es
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)
VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...
VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...
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Nos acabamos de enterar de la triste noticia de la muerte de Javier Piñango, uno de los músicos experimentales más importantes de la escena española y director del festival internacional de música Experimentaclub, que nos dio una de nuestras primeras oportunidades como programadores. DEP compañero
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Nos acabamos de enterar de la triste noticia de la muerte de Javier Piñango, uno de los músicos experimentales más importantes de la escena española y director del festival internacional de música Experimentaclub, que nos dio una de nuestras primeras oportunidades como programadores. DEP compañero
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Triste noticia: Javier Piñango nos dejó. DEP www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
Muere el músico Javier Piñango a los 63 años
Integrante de grupos como Cerdos, Mil Dolores Pequeños o Ankitoner Metamars, fue también promotor de festivales como Experimentaclub y codirector de los sellos discográficos Triquinoise y Por Caridad ...
www.eldiario.es
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Triste noticia: Javier Piñango nos dejó. DEP www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
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L'artiste @mariosantamaria.bsky.social détourne Google Street View pour reconstituer le parcours d'un câble sous-marin de fibre optique près de Barcelone. Une façon poétique de révéler l'infrastructure invisible qui porte nos données et questionner notre dépendance à ces réseaux cachés.
September 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
L'artiste @mariosantamaria.bsky.social détourne Google Street View pour reconstituer le parcours d'un câble sous-marin de fibre optique près de Barcelone. Une façon poétique de révéler l'infrastructure invisible qui porte nos données et questionner notre dépendance à ces réseaux cachés.
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New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
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www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it.
We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it.
We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
Planned AI data centre would drain local water supply, firm warns
Anglian Water has raised strong objections to the planning application by Elsham Tech Park in north Lincolnshire, saying it could cause sewage pollution
www.thetimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it.
We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
NEW: the proposals for the UK's largest data centre are deeply worrying - sewage pollution and not enough water to supply it.
We've made legal submissions opposing the plans - more here. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/28/w...
Emerald Black Latency received a nomination for the S+T+ARTS Prize 🐍🦥🪱
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Emerald Black Latency
Emerald Black Latency takes the Medusa Submarine Cable System as a starting point to explore the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the internet. Planned for 2026, Medusa is ...
starts-prize.aec.at
June 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Emerald Black Latency received a nomination for the S+T+ARTS Prize 🐍🦥🪱
starts-prize.aec.at/en/emerald-b...
starts-prize.aec.at/en/emerald-b...
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#TECNOLOGIA | “Els cables submarins que connecten el món sencer repliquen les velles rutes comercials de l’època colonial”, explica la investigadora Miranda Gabbott https://directa.cat/el-nuvol-que-no-existeix-aixi-es-larquitectura-del-mon-digital/ Per Albert Alexandre
El núvol que no existeix: així és l'arquitectura del món digital
Tot i la narrativa de les grans empreses tecnològiques, internet se sustenta sobre cables i una xarxa de centres de dades que consumeixen grans quantitats de recursos i que es desplega seguint velles lògiques de dominació econòmica. En el número del mes de maig de la 'Directa' en fem una extensa anàlisi
directa.cat
May 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#TECNOLOGIA | “Els cables submarins que connecten el món sencer repliquen les velles rutes comercials de l’època colonial”, explica la investigadora Miranda Gabbott https://directa.cat/el-nuvol-que-no-existeix-aixi-es-larquitectura-del-mon-digital/ Per Albert Alexandre
Karen Barad en Barcelona, 13 mayo
www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad...
www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad...
Conferencia de Karen Barad
Karen Barad, que ideó el concepto "matter matters", ofrecerá una conferencia en el DHub el 13 de mayo.
www.dissenyhub.barcelona
May 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Karen Barad en Barcelona, 13 mayo
www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad...
www.dissenyhub.barcelona/es/actividad...
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Amb ganes d'això! 🔥 Taller del Grup de treball de RWM amb Marta Echaves
www.macba.cat/ca/activitat... Parlarem de malestars contemporanis, la indústria farmacèutica i el “Renaixement dels psicodèlics” i la recerca en curs de la investigadora Marta Echaves, una història de la ketamina a contrapel.
www.macba.cat/ca/activitat... Parlarem de malestars contemporanis, la indústria farmacèutica i el “Renaixement dels psicodèlics” i la recerca en curs de la investigadora Marta Echaves, una història de la ketamina a contrapel.
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Amb ganes d'això! 🔥 Taller del Grup de treball de RWM amb Marta Echaves
www.macba.cat/ca/activitat... Parlarem de malestars contemporanis, la indústria farmacèutica i el “Renaixement dels psicodèlics” i la recerca en curs de la investigadora Marta Echaves, una història de la ketamina a contrapel.
www.macba.cat/ca/activitat... Parlarem de malestars contemporanis, la indústria farmacèutica i el “Renaixement dels psicodèlics” i la recerca en curs de la investigadora Marta Echaves, una història de la ketamina a contrapel.
Cloudplexity #291
www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
May 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Cloudplexity #291
www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
www.mariosantamaria.net/cloudplexity/
Last saturday visiting data centers in Barcelona
with fire included 🔥
#Internettour #Internetour
internetour.com
with fire included 🔥
#Internettour #Internetour
internetour.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Last saturday visiting data centers in Barcelona
with fire included 🔥
#Internettour #Internetour
internetour.com
with fire included 🔥
#Internettour #Internetour
internetour.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Internet Tour BCN
Pic: Blanca Pujals
Pic: Blanca Pujals
April 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Internet Tour BCN
Pic: Blanca Pujals
Pic: Blanca Pujals
Daniela Vaccaro about my falling avatar in becoming.press "The collapse of the image expresses the limits of representation models and the unbridgeable gap between the vectorial epistemic regime of techno-capitalism and lived experience."
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April 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Daniela Vaccaro about my falling avatar in becoming.press "The collapse of the image expresses the limits of representation models and the unbridgeable gap between the vectorial epistemic regime of techno-capitalism and lived experience."
becoming.press/zones-of-off...
becoming.press/zones-of-off...