An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure––a tourist route of non-touristic places. Featuring Art Practice faculty Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.

Thursday, October 12th, 2023

Bus & Walking Tour 9am-1pm
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“Internet Tour” is an initiative by Barcelona-based artist Mario Santamaría, whose successful bus tours have explored the hidden digital infrastructures of many European cities. Now in Berkeley, in collaboration with Alex Saum-Pascual, and together with the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Arts Research Center, we’ll embark on a collective exploration of the world’s preeminent technology hub, the San Francisco Bay Area, as we unearth its Internet infrastructure. Traveling by bus and on foot across Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland, this guided tour will also feature poetic and artistic experiences. We’ll visit the places through which our voices, images, cryptocurrencies, and future intelligences circulate as cursed matter that flows from the same wound. Where to go from there?

With Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media; Mario Santamaría, Barcelona-based Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center.

Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media with the Arts Research Center, and co-sponsored by Insitut Ramon Llull, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, and the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese