hyperscale

solo exhibition made in collaboration with gustav johannes hoder in spanien 19C, aarhus, denmark
materials: video, custom electronics, light, sound, code and network
year: 2021

in computing, hyperscale refers to architectures and systems that can be scaled as demand increases or decreases. this is often applied to big data or cloud computing applications, but the terms are carried into the physical realm, as hyperscale data centers are constructed following the same principles of scalability.

through video, installation and sound, the exhibition hyperscale presents a critical vision of the physical reality, which is the digital cloud. focusing on the three hyperscale data centers being built in denmark in the periode 2019-2021, along with several others in planning, the exhibition examines the material aspects of the data abstraction.

the video excerpt above shows google in taulov.

hyperscale is a result of a longer collaboration between visual artist jacob remin and philosopher gustav johannes hoder. a publication "hyperscale: cloud materialities" presenting their artistic research accompanied by texts from keller easterling, natalie p. koerner and james maguire was produced in connection with the exhibition and released on aleatorik.

download a .pdf version of the publication, exhibition posters and press release here.

listen to the soundtrack for the video on soundcloud

thanks to mathilde lesénecal, halfdan mouritzen, benjamin krog asger møller, kim grønborg, nicklas devel, daniel møller ølgaard, alexander munchenberger, eva sommer hansen, and all who participated in the reading circle

team:
camera: klaus elmer
server side programming: halfdan mouritzen
electronics consultant: peer klausen / gadget group

created with kind support from the danish arts council, aarhus kulturudviklingspulje and 15. juni fonden