IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER (DIPC)
This project addresses the present and future environmental impact of data storage. Although the metaphor of the cloud leads us to believe that digital information is volatile, in reality it is supported by gigantic physical infrastructures that demand more and more energy, water and raw materials.
Compost computacional explores the architectures of data centres through two devices: a vermicomposting system that works with the energy produced by astronomical simulation software; and a film whose protagonist is the quipu MCHAP 0780, a pre-Columbian calculating machine and technological fossil that offers some ideas on how to imagine another digital future.
Vídeo (making-of): Morgancrea
