dark site
Photo: studio_adamson
dark site is an audiovisual work which imagines a speculative future where data centres and artificial intelligence have become replacements for biological life. In this posthuman landscape, where the construction and maintenance of computing infrastructure no longer requires human presence, dark sites emerge.
Dark sites are a category of architecture where light is no longer needed to support human activity. Instead, data centres and server racks sit in permanently unlit facilities, built to run autonomously. They are sealed, monitored, and environmentally controlled by sensors, with airflow and heat managed through contained systems rather than spaces designed for biological life.
dark site imagines what artefacts of humanity and planet Earth may remain within these computer clusters, and questions the truth of the data held within them. It is a theoretical rendering of how the past and present may be remembered over extreme timescales.
Curated by Resonant Ground for their exhibition ‘PLAYFORM’