Clouded Glass and a Politics of Light. Critical Network Aesthetics and Data Transfer Geographies in The South West United Kingdom

该项目将研究和开发一系列创新的媒体艺术作品，让受众和参与者参与到与不断变化的数据结构有关的问题中，这些数据结构存在、监视、渗透、货币化并代表他们个人生活的许多方面。该项目的重点是在理论上知情的实际工作，揭露和批判性地审查建设、所有权和带宽租赁模式的历史以及联合王国西南部和布里斯托尔海峡跨国电信网络基础设施的环境影响和实质性。它将探索和制作作品，询问以下问题：在什么情况下，对支持数据传输和收集的有形基础设施的研究揭示了支持所述基础设施/结构的政治模式？关键研究如何在概念上超越数据传输基础设施以及相关公司和国家权力结构的可见性/不可见性、透明度/不透明度、易读性/模糊性的简单化二进制？关键研究如何超越复制现有的权力结构？该项目的实际工作将制作视频和互动作品，利用英国西南部地区实施和扩大带宽基础设施的档案材料和文件。关键基础设施、数字技术-文化研究、媒体地质学和其他相关领域的理论和视听研究将反映和支持以实践为基础的研究。

This project will research and develop a series of innovative media artworks to engage audiences and participants with issues concerning the evolving data structures that inhabit, surveil, permeate, monetize and represent many aspects of their individual lives. The project focus is on theoretically informed practical work that exposes and critically examines the histories of construction, ownership and bandwidth leasing patterns andthe environmental impacts & materialities of transnational telecommunications network infrastructure in the South West United Kingdom & Bristol Channel. It will explore and produce works interrogating the following questions: At what point does the study of the physical infrastructures that supports data transfer and collection reveal the patterns of politics that support said infra/structures? How can a critical study conceptually move past simplistic binaries of the visibility/invisibility, transparency/opacity, legibility/illegibility of data transfer infrastructures and related corporate and state power structures? How can a critical study transcend replicating the existing power structures that it is undertaken within?The project practical work will produce video and interactive works that draw on archival material and documentation of the implementation and expansion of bandwidth infrastructure in the South-west region of the UK. Theoretical and audiovisual research in the areas of critical infrastructure, digital technocultural studies, media geology and other relevant areas will inflect and support the practice-based research.