The databases used to design future-oriented infrastructure rely on extractive forms of knowledge production. Responding to Google’s water-hungry data centre on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest, data is expanded into a speculative landscape where digital hardware and plant wetware intertwine. Here, plants become naturally intelligent components of a collectively managed informational system.
Participant
SONIA SOBRINO RALSTON, Vancouver, Canada, 1995. Lives and works in Boston, USA.
Technical Collaborator
Simon Lesina-Debiasi (Computation)
