Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
Under the Cloud
  • Description
  • Artist
  • Terms

Under the Cloud, a new publication compiling research gathered during their field study in the Guizhou province of Southwest China.

Between 2021-2023 several groups of artists, curators, media theorists, and anthropologists travelled to Guizhou. The province is one of the eight national ‘big data hubs’ under the ‘Data in the East, Computing in the West program,’ the Chinese strategic approach to data that aims to leverage the distinct advantages of each region toward technological growth. The groups, led by curator Iris Long and artist Zike He, visited key sites* of computational infrastructure (the hardware, software, and networking components that collectively enable computers to run and process data) that have emerged in Guizhou province over the last decade. The ‘Under the Cloud’** publication documents these explorations into the real-world implications of techno-industrial policy that increasingly aims to optimise data and computing capabilities to adopt artificial intelligence. Written in English and Chinese, it includes artist interviews and contributions by researchers, artists and science fiction writers. 

Sites visited include Huawei Cloud Gui’an Data Center, Gui’an Supercomputing Center, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Data Processing, The Big Data Security Exhibition Centre, Guiyang Meteorological Bureau, Guiyang National Reference Climate Station, Key Laboratory of Information and Computing Science Guizhou Province, Guizhou Cloud Big Data Group, Big Data Expo Guyang, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, Yunding Wind Farm of Power China Guizhou Engineering Co, LTD, Huawei Guizhou Cloud Development Innovation Center

‘Under the Cloud’ is part of a long-term project called ‘PORT’ by Long and He that focuses on the narratives of technological infrastructures in China. 

List of contributors:

Cao Fei, Eva Jäger, Gary Zhexi Zhang, He Zike, Iris Long, Liu Chuang, Liu Xin, NDOI, Kevin Liu Ziyu, Shi Qing, Stanley Chen Qiufan, Tim Zuo, Wang Hongzhe, Xu Haomin, Xu Lu, Xu Zhengyue, Yu Weiying, Zhou Tao, Zhang Wenxin, Zhang Yiyi, Zhao Xiaoxiao

ISBN 978-1-908617-84-2

Page count: 355 pages 

Size: 19(w) x 27(h) x 3(d) cm

Price: £20

Binding: Threadsewn 

Cover: Softcover 

Language: Publication is in English and Chinese

© 2024. Photo: readsreads.info

 

No artist information available.

Terms and Conditions

By purchasing Serpentine Limited Editions you are agreeing to theseterms and conditionsof sale.

All sales of our Limited Editions go towards our programme, by purchasing a Serpentine Limited Edition you are ensuring Serpentine can remain free and open to all. Please contact editions@serpentinegalleries.org for further information.

All our orders are bespoke hand wrapped in London, using globally sourced packing materials and we ship around the world from our London gallery. With this in mind, you should receive your order from between 14 days to 20 days.

As a result of the new Brexit rules and regulations, VAT is now calculated in the checkout section in your cart and is dependent on the shipping destination.

Please note that customers outside of the UK may be required to pay import VAT and/or customs duty to their local courier company before receiving the goods.