https://temporalstack.com Under the Cloud Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:22:15 +0000 https://temporalstack.com en https://temporalstack.com/TEMPORAL-STACK-THE-DEEP-SENSOR Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:20:44 +0000 Under the Cloud https://temporalstack.com/TEMPORAL-STACK-THE-DEEP-SENSOR TEMPORAL STACK: THE DEEP SENSOR <img width="7087" height="11811" width_o="7087" height_o="11811" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78572bacf808060f9540dfa1cc6c1a75b30612f39ad2eabbc7a1fcd714dfc973/WechatIMG286.jpeg" data-mid="121188908" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78572bacf808060f9540dfa1cc6c1a75b30612f39ad2eabbc7a1fcd714dfc973/WechatIMG286.jpeg" /> <img width="1646" height="1097" width_o="1646" height_o="1097" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c4eadbc51ab6fd7ff84043f9cba789a25dc4c56aced0cbd1b8a3ba372f5ac03/_20211026155612.jpg" data-mid="123483948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c4eadbc51ab6fd7ff84043f9cba789a25dc4c56aced0cbd1b8a3ba372f5ac03/_20211026155612.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fac297b7d75f9817db70adb19fc8ff2a2a552ab360104506cb0ea63d5c4853f2/5c04638d4ec1034589981bdf3e3b49f.jpg" data-mid="123483833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fac297b7d75f9817db70adb19fc8ff2a2a552ab360104506cb0ea63d5c4853f2/5c04638d4ec1034589981bdf3e3b49f.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/780b9c766b4862d4ae4ab28a6cf3eee5b5e889ad44c8299fa471bd2fa73957dc/835601838ea838c07ca094dd68b80cd.jpg" data-mid="123483811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/780b9c766b4862d4ae4ab28a6cf3eee5b5e889ad44c8299fa471bd2fa73957dc/835601838ea838c07ca094dd68b80cd.jpg" /> October 17 - November 07, 2021 参展艺术家：陈沾衣,丹尼斯·德·贝尔,丹妮拉·德·保利斯,德瑞斯·德·波尔特,郭城,游牧水土资源部小组,罗莎·门克曼,半导体小组,张文心,周元杰 ARTISTS: CHEN Zhanyi,Dennis de Bel,Daniela de Paulis,Dries de Poorter,GUO Cheng,The Nomadic Department of the Interior (NDOI),Rosa Menkman,Semiconductor,ZHANG Wenxin,ZHOU Yuanjie 策展人： 龙星如,贺子珂 CURATORS: Iris LONG, HE Zike 在这片土地上，人的感知方式会因地质而产生，并为地质所确证。在这片中空的喀斯特土地上上，历史记忆如流水一般，毫无征兆地消失，随后带着全新的力量，以另一个名字于另一个地方重新出现。 ——《深时之旅》，罗伯特·麦克法伦 喀斯特地貌向地心之深印刻着一种隐秘而漫长的时间：岩矿溶蚀形成地下的中空，暗河在其间时隐时现。在贵州地区，喀斯特像一种时间的压缩饼干：它既穿梭起关于古生物化石、棺葬和地下世界的民族传说，也承负着极为近现代的一系列科学技术设施的运转，这包括数据中心和世界上口径最大的单天线射电望远镜。地质结构的深时沉淀来自于外部扰动的消除，不论这些外部扰动是来自探险者，迷路误闯的旅人，还是电磁或泥石流。镶嵌在这一极其稳定的地质结构上的科技基础设施，也通常隐没于人们的视界边缘，成为更像“地貌”而非生活日常的存在。 《时满时空：深层感应》从带有隐喻属性的“深时沉淀”和与之相关的心理时间出发，试图在贵州的现场复现一条抽象的洞穴，一道无星暗河，串联起10位（组）艺术家关于地质地貌、基础设施和时间堆栈的意识枝桠。如Jussi Parikka所言，我们当下的时间尺度（timescale），是由诸多“不止人类”（more than human）的他者共同谱写的——这流淌于参展作品之间的共识与共情。作品的触角从地底出发，直叩深空，并在人、动物和科学仪器的不同视觉光谱之间，对我们所共处之地一次次、一层层地成像。张文心构建的一系列多孔空间隐秘追踪着蚁群、基础设施、古墓小说和魏晋道人，郭城针对封存在人造地质物（混凝土）中的信息残片展开一段幽灵狩猎，德瑞斯·德·波尔特则将展厅地表变成了一个声音地道的入口，将贵州和与之相对的另一个世界天文观测重地智利轻巧地相连。游牧水土资源部则具象地回应着大数据基建给土地和人带来的变化，追踪隐匿于山洞中的数据中心和“中国数谷”中的科技广场，在离散的碎片里，拼贴一段关于当下的现实科幻。艺术家同样狩猎着地表与天穹之间看似空洞无物的地带，丹尼斯·德·贝尔用自制的网络通讯装置监听周遭的波段，陈沾衣用业余无线电接收装置截获气象卫星图像并试图拼接一个“清晰的故障”，丹妮拉·德·保利斯则探向地月之间的中空，她使用月面无源发射通信技术，将1972年在月面留下的宇航员全家福发射回月球，这一过程中，月球成为了一颗被动的卫星。当目光继续向深空行进，罗莎·门克曼和半导体小组寻找着一种人之视野和科学技术设备的光谱之间的偏振：科学图像和宇宙学解释的缝隙之间，是否可以反观人类观察者的蛛丝马迹，甚至偶然间使我们与看似冷漠的“宇宙时间”产生亲密感？ 展览通过层层迭进，将围绕互联网、数据、“云上”和脉冲星信号的述说，反向折叠回支撑这些抽象概念的基础设施系统，以及更为底层的自然：河流、山脉、洞穴、地层。展厅则在隐喻意义和在地形态上都成为了一个现代洞穴——下沉并包裹于由石块和沙土所讲述的在城市建设、地产开发和地貌演化中的混合叙事。当水做的云和数据之云，地质之洞和信息栈道合二为一，时满时空的喀斯特中空，以其永续沉淀的时间，让包裹着世界与日常的绝对宿命感开始逐步显现。这片深时沉淀也是一个激发创造力的地带，正如Anna Tsing等人在“人类史的人类学做法” 所言：“大叙事往往栖身于似乎微不足道的意外，不对称的邂逅和未曾确定的瞬息之间。”[1]“Here in this hollow terrain of the karst, historical memory behaves like flowing water, disappearing without warning, only to resurge under new names, in new places, with fresh force.” -Underland, Robert McFarlane The Karst landscapes inscribe a secret and endless kind of “time” towards the earth’s core: the solutional processes have led to a hollow, negative-form space under the earth’s surface, within which underground rivers flicker in view. In Guizhou area, the Karst geology becomes a compressed biscuit of “time”, interweaving traces of paleontological fossils, native legends about cave burials and underground worlds, also bearing a series of “tech-infrastructures”, ranging from data centers to the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. The incredible stability of such a geological “compressed biscuit”, or sediment of deep-time, results from the elimination of external disturbances - no matter from adventurers, travelers who lost their way, electromagnetic radiation, or even debris flows. Inset into the Karst geology, the most reliable structural support, the tech-infrastructures seem to resemble “landscapes” more than parts of daily life. The exhibition “Temporal Stack: the Deep Sensor” sets out in search of a metaphorical “deep-time sediment” and the psychological time associated with it. The show attempts to create an abstract cave tunnel, a starless river with artworks from 10 groups of artists that investigate notions of geology, infrastructure, a plurality of time, and branches of consciousness. In Jussi Parikka’s words, our current situation “engages timescales orchestrated by a range of more-than-human others” and this can be detected from the exhibiting artworks, the antennas of which spread from deep under the earth’s surface to the visual vanishing point in the sky, creating multilayered interpretations and sensations of our current world via the dynamics among human, animals and scientific apparatuses. In Zhang Wenxin’s work, the cave becomes an apparatus that links reservoirs, karst caverns, Daoist temples, mountain forests, and cities, passing through complex concealed topographies. With Ambers, Guo Cheng conducts ghost hunting towards artifacts/technical objects that were solidified in artificial “stones” (concrete). Dries de poorter converts the exhibition site into the entrance of a portal, connecting Guizhou with its opposite side of the southern hemisphere: Chile, which coincidently is also also a world center of astronomical observation. The Nomadic Department of the Interior (NDOI), meanwhile, investigates how techno-infrastructures reshape everyday life in Guizhou, with their visual travelogue, from data centers tunneled into mountains and new tech plazas in China’s Big Data Valley, brief fragments of which are transformed into a kind of “realistic science fiction”. The “void” in-between the earth and sky also becomes a target of techno-ghost-hunting. Dennis de Bel secretly detects the invisible “wavescapes” with his Walkie-talkies. Chen Zhanyi receives image signals from a Russian weather satellite Meteor M2 with her amateur antenna, stitching all the images to get a clear, perfect glitch. Daniela de Paulis, meanwhile, uses the Visual Moonbounce technology to reflect the family portrait off the surface of the Moon, left by NASA astronaut Charles Duke in 1972. The moon becomes a passive satellite. Moving beyond the “edge of the sight”, Rosa Menkman and Semicondcutor seek the polarization between human visual spectrums and the parameters of scientific apparatuses. Would there ever be traces of human observers detectable on the cracks of scientific images and explanations of our world? Would those traces create intimacy between us and the indifferent cosmic time or rules? Layer upon layer, the exhibition unfolds the abstract narrations about big data, “cloud” or cosmology, and in reverse folds them into the infrastructures supporting such notions, and what supports the “infrastructures”: rivers, valleys, caves, stratum. The exhibition space thus metaphorically and morphologically becomes a modern cave residing in the local context - sunken and wrapped in a hybrid story of urban construction, real estate development and geomorphic evolution in the words of the stone and sand. When the clouds made of hydrones and the “clouds” composed of bits merge with each other, when the geological tunnel gently overlaps with the information channels, technology and nature seem to arrive at symbiosis in one narrative. Sediment of time gradually fills the looming Karst hollow, where a kind of “absolute fate” encapsulating all - the world, the dailiness - slowly emerges. This “temporal stack” is also a zone of creativity, as Anna Tsing has smartly put it: “Big stories take their form from seemingly minor contingencies, asymmetrical encounters, and moments of indeterminacy”.[1][1] Gan, E., A. Tsing, H. Swanson, and N. Bubandt. 2017. Introduction: Haunted Landsca p es of the Anthropocene. In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by A.Tsing, H. Swanson, E. Gan, and N. Bubandt, G1–G14. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press https://temporalstack.com/PUBLICATION Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:43:30 +0000 Under the Cloud https://temporalstack.com/PUBLICATION TEMPORAL STACK: THE DEEP SENSOR <img width="2880" height="1360" width_o="2880" height_o="1360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddc68dab148b972001bebaec3dd29d049dfe7bc0dd297808cd16dfebd2aa4d43/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.33.02-AM.png" data-mid="141954434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddc68dab148b972001bebaec3dd29d049dfe7bc0dd297808cd16dfebd2aa4d43/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.33.02-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1374" width_o="2880" height_o="1374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44a310196b0ca8866758c0cb372ebbb7a7777a94f15af0f29d59baa1d35c9867/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.38.27-AM.png" data-mid="141954487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44a310196b0ca8866758c0cb372ebbb7a7777a94f15af0f29d59baa1d35c9867/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.38.27-AM.png" /> Sixth Tone: Life Amid the Guizhou Clouds <img width="818" height="1168" width_o="818" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ea554b5a0c4b525259f8205cc7e1630c6fb54eaea68108b98af3e490f0e87b3/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.30.18-AM.png" data-mid="141954437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/818/i/1ea554b5a0c4b525259f8205cc7e1630c6fb54eaea68108b98af3e490f0e87b3/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.30.18-AM.png" /> Bitcoin, Hydropower, Data Centerslecture at Peking University https://temporalstack.com/UNDER-THE-CLOUD Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:20:45 +0000 Under the Cloud https://temporalstack.com/UNDER-THE-CLOUD UNDER THE CLOUD <img width="823" height="617" width_o="823" height_o="617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df371e267583d558c26d224072f494230028b802bd1250369282acb77e449e56/640.png" data-mid="120664749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/823/i/df371e267583d558c26d224072f494230028b802bd1250369282acb77e449e56/640.png" /> August 03 - 07, 2021特邀参与者(按姓名排序)： 毕昕、陈楸帆、陈玺安、郭城、高怡洁、刘昕、钱诗怡、王洪喆、王欢、杨北辰、张文心 Participants（in alphabetical order）： BI Xin, CHEN Qiufan, CHEN Zian, GUO Cheng, GAO Yijie, LIU Xin, QIAN Shiyi, WANG Hongzhe, WANG Huan, YANG Beichen, ZHANG Wenxin 走访机构 | SITES 国家喀斯特石漠化防治工程技术研究中心 &nbsp;贵州师范大学喀斯特研究院State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Dessertification Control, School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University 贵州省射电天文数据处理重点实验室 &nbsp;中科院国家天文台·贵州师范大学天文研究与教育中心Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Data Processing 贵州华为云软件开发云创新中心Huawei Guizhou Cloud Development Innovation Center 贵安华为云数据中心Huawei Gui'an Data Center 中国科学院地球化学研究所 Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 中国电建集团贵阳勘测设计研究院有限公司Power China Guizhou Engineering Co, LTD 贵州省气象局,贵阳国家基准气候站Guizhou Meterological Bureau 贵州数安汇大数据产业发展有限公司 &nbsp; 贵阳大数据安全产业展示中心Guiyang Big Data Security Center 中国天眼基地Five-hundred Meters Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope “端口，物质流，数据山脉”是一次关于当代科技生产基础地貌的调查走访和委任创作项目，始发站“云下贵州”围绕贵州展开。项目试图邀请人文和社科领域的研究者和写作者，进入包括数据中心、智能工厂、环境监测站和FAST射电望远镜在内的“基础设施”内部，将它们视作科技地图上的诸多端口，以在地的方式，鼓励观察式报告、创意影像等形式的知识生产。 因大数据产业政策、数博会和“云上贵州”而名闻遐迩的贵州地区，在见证数据产业给经济带来的改变的同时，也见证了“大数据”、“云”、“方舟”这些带着科幻色彩的词汇，如何在数年间成为贵阳市民一知半解抑或如数家珍的常谈。“云上”的诗意和抽象，如何编织进“云下”的日常生活，是项目关注的起点。同时，项目聚集于数据中心、测绘基建和一系列可以自我控制、自我调节、精准决策的自动化系统，将折射出何种我们对技术力量重构生产关系、文化乃至科技政治的想象。 在一张1940年的照片中，英国的旅游者们围绕在美国胡弗水坝的发电机前，历史学家David Nye将这个画面描述为对“技术崇高”的迷恋——“技术崇高”或许并非唯一的视角。技术产业“基础设施”从背景中的显现，它们之所以让人知觉其“存在”（有时以事故的方式），也根源于我们和基础设施之间关系的不确定、困惑和若即若离。地理学家Stephen Graham和Simon Marvin将基础设施视为“人类曾发明过的，最为庞大复杂的技术物。”社会学家Susan Leigh Star和Geoffrey Bowker则将有关基础设施的讨论延展为智性和机制的运作，包括如何设计基础设施所必须的测量标准、命名传统、分类系统、技术协议等。在诸多论述中，也有一些写作者细心地捕获了人们对这些退至视线之外之物所投射的，如面对无名物种一般的情绪共鸣。Lisa Parks对基础设施似有主动的“隐藏”（concealment）展开论说，它们“无法检测和被注意，有时索然无味”，而Steven Jackson则推演了一种他称之为“崩坏世界思考”的认识转移，他认为今日对科技和新媒介的思考，并非在于“创新、发展或设计”，而是“崩溃，解散和变迁。”贵阳市是一座“数字”的城市，这里有全球首个以大数据为主题的博览会，也有全国第一家以大数据命名的交易所。由政策和产业同构的鼎沸之势，架构在以多维贫困与生态脆弱性为人所知的地貌之上，在这个“三线建设”的后方，形成一种奇特的地貌。2020年，坐落在喀斯特“天坑”里的世界最大单口径射电望远镜（FAST），正式投入运营。同年年底，在波多黎各寂静的山谷中，阿雷西博（Arecibo）单碟射电望远镜倒塌，在不可见之处，基础设施也在经历另一时间线的命程，地质地貌、基础设施、城市和人，被压缩在宇宙尺度上的毫厘之间。在隐喻意义上，关于基础设施中人与非人叙事，可能流向感性的结局。而对基础设施的迷恋，如何逃脱架空式的、图式的想象，让实地经验和一手现场在研究中发挥更强的效力，也是项目试图回应的课题——我们偶尔可以从“云上”回归“云下”。 Port, Material Flow, Data Alleys is a site visit and writing commissioning project about the infrastructures of contemporary technologies. The first stop is Guizhou, China. The project invites researchers and writers from humanities and sociologies backgrounds to&nbsp;conduct site-visits to&nbsp;the "techno-infrastructures"&nbsp;ranging from data centers,&nbsp;"intelligent factories", environment monitor stations, radio telescopes and&nbsp;so on, considering them as "ports"&nbsp;on the map&nbsp;for&nbsp;contemporary technologies. The&nbsp;project encourages&nbsp; creative writings and knowledge production based on&nbsp;in-situ&nbsp;investigations and experiences. Guizhou is getting known for the big data policies (known as the "data capital" of China), China International Big Data Industry Expo, and row upon row of data bunkers&nbsp;constructed by&nbsp;tech giants. The "datafication"&nbsp;process boosts economies, while witnessing how terms such as "big data", "the cloud"and "ark", become embedded in daily life in Guizhou within a few years.&nbsp;How exactly did the poetry and abstraction of the "cloud"&nbsp;get interwoven with everydayness in Guizhou? This is the starting point of our project, furthermore, we focus on investigations on&nbsp;data processing centers, measurement facilitations and a series of automated systems that are self-controlled, self-regulated and equipped with precise&nbsp;decision making functions, and how these elements&nbsp;may reflect how technological energies shape our production relationships and imaginations on culture and techno-politics. In a picture taken in 1940, British travellers surrounded the Hoover Dam - described as "Technological Sublime" by historian David Nye. Sometimes, "techno-infrastructures" emerge from the background in the form of accidents, partly because of our uncertain, confusing and aloof relationship with them. Geographer Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin describe&nbsp;infrastructures as "sophisticated technological artifacts ever devised by humans."&nbsp;Sociologists Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey Bowker, meanwhile, expand the discussion about infrastructures to intellectual and mechanism operations, including its ecology, ethnography, and the sociology of classification system involved. Some writers, furthermore, acutely captures how infrastructures strike a sympathetic chord by receding from our eyesights as indefinable species in eerie silence. Lisa Parks elegantly concludes&nbsp;this process as "concealment"&nbsp;- relatively invisible and unnoticed. Steven Jackson offers a cognitive shift of what he calls "broken world thinking", highlighting erosion, breakdown, and decay, rather than novelty, growth, and progress in the use of nature. Guiyang is a "digital" city, where the world's&nbsp;first "big data"&nbsp;themed expo was born, and where the country's first "big data exchange"&nbsp;was launched. The uproaring industry is architectured upon long-term poverty and ecological fragility, composing a unique landscape in the rear area of the "third line movement". In 2020, world's largest single segment radio telescope (FAST) was put into operation. At the end of the&nbsp;same&nbsp;year, in a silent valley in Puerto Rico, Arecibo collapsed in silence. Infrastructures endure their lifelines in places beyond our sight. Geologies, landscapes, infrastructures, cities and human, are compressed as an indistinguishable layer in the cosmic scale of time. Metaphorically, the human and non-human narrative entangling infrastructures, could flow into a sensorial postscript. Furthermore, how could the contemplation&nbsp;on&nbsp;infrastructures escape from aerial imaginations and&nbsp;in reverse,&nbsp;invite first-hand, on-site&nbsp;and in-situ&nbsp;experiences, is the underlying principle of Port, Material Flow, Data Alleys. https://temporalstack.com/UNDER-THE-CLOUD-2022 Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:22:15 +0000 Under the Cloud https://temporalstack.com/UNDER-THE-CLOUD-2022 UNDER THE CLOUD <img width="1080" height="608" width_o="1080" height_o="608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f17f14b6bb1930ac58f7e875991a1107b44eaf619fdefbf39256e59a695ebe3f/29491655620785_.pic.jpg" data-mid="146067939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f17f14b6bb1930ac58f7e875991a1107b44eaf619fdefbf39256e59a695ebe3f/29491655620785_.pic.jpg" /> September, 2022 走访机构 | SITES 贵州省气象局贵阳国家基准气候站Guizhou Meteorological Bureau&nbsp;Guiyang National Climatological Reference Station 数安汇大数据安全靶场Shu’anhui Big Data Security 贵州省射电天文数据处理重点实验室School of Physics and Electronic Science, Guizhou Normal University 中科院地球化学研究所Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences FAST天眼基地FAST Base 腾讯数据中心Tencent Data Centers 苹果数据中心 Apple Data Centers 云上贵州 Guizhou-Cloud Big Data &gt;&gt;&gt;2021年夏天的走访中，我们通过“地质”、“气象”、“数据”和“天文”四类机构的实地走访和交流，从不同角度尝试诠释贵州作为数据重镇的缘由，在2022年的走访中，我们试图提出四个细分视角，In summer 2021, we conducted visits and exchanges with institutions involved in geology, meteorology, data, and astronomy. From these different perspectives, we attempted to determine why Guizhou has become a data hub. In the 2022 site visits, we will examine this question in four ways: 东数西算 贵州属于“东数西算”工程已批复的8个国家算力枢纽节点之一，我们如何结合实地调研，理解“算力西移”的过程以及背后的跨区资源配置动力？这又将如何影响贵州“冷数据”（一般指时效性需求不太高、对时延不敏感的数据）存储为主的现状？ Data in the East, Computing in the West Guizhou is one of the eight national computing power hubs approved for the Data in the East, Computing in the West program. How can we incorporate on-the-ground research to better understand this westward movement of computing power and the underlying inter-regional resource allocations? How will this influence the primacy of “cold data” storage (usually for data that has lower time effectiveness and time sensitivity requirements) in Guizhou? 天文数据 天文研究已经成为一个经典大数据场景，FAST每年新增约10PB数据，预计未来五年的数据总量将超过100PB。这些数据也会通过贵阳FAST早期科学数据中心作为节点传输至北京国家天文台，并最终通过云端与全国及世界共享。我们如何理解天文数据从收集、运算到建模最终变为新认知/发现的过程？同时，如何看待它的本地性和全球性之间的动态？ Astronomical Data Astronomical research has become a classic use-case for data. Every year, FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope) adds 10 PB of new data, and it is estimated that its total data will exceed 100 PB in the next five years. This data is sent via FAST’s early scientific data center in Guiyang to the National Astronomical Observatory in Beijing, then it is shared with all of China and the rest of the world through the cloud. How should we think about the process of collecting, computing, modeling, and finally generating new knowledge or discoveries? How should we think about the interaction between its local and global impact? 科学数据与数据中心 在上一论题基础上，我们如何进一步看待科学数据与数据中心的关系？从某种系统性的视角出发，数据中心可被视为更广泛网络中的节点，连接起地质、气象、水力、电力等不同的学科与部门——它们既是数据中心运行的支持性力量，同时也依赖于数据和新基建的开发与应用。我们试图考察数据与新基建如何影响了不同行业的工作方式、人与机器的关系和技术在其中的演化历程，以及这个包括数据中心在内的系统如何协同工作并相互影响。 Scientific Data and Data Centers Based on our discussion of astronomical data, how should we think about the relationship between scientific data and data centers? From a systemic perspective, data centers can be seen as nodes in a broader network, connecting disparate scientific disciplines such as geology, meteorology, hydropower, and electricity. All of these disciplines support data center operations, but they also rely on the development and application of data and new infrastructure. We will investigate how data and new infrastructure have influenced working methods in different industries, the relationship between humans and machines, and the evolution of technology, and how this system, which includes data centers, can coordinate and influence work 新基建 以5G、物联网、工业互联网、卫星互联网为代表的通信网络基础设施，以人工智能、云计算、区块链等为代表的新技术基础设施，以数据中心、智能计算中心为代表的算力基础设施被称为“新基建”（信息基础设施方向）。我们试图通过走访，理解“新基建”在具体地区生活中所呈现的样貌，也寻访这些“新兴”地貌和三线遗产之间在地理和文化认知上的关联。New Infrastructure Communication network infrastructure such as 5G, the Internet of Things, industrial internet, and satellite internet, new technology infrastructure such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain, and computing infrastructure such as data centers and smart computing centers are collectively known as “new infrastructure” for information technology. Through these visits, we will attempt to understand new infrastructure in the context of life in the region and inquire into the geographical and cultural connections between this new infrastructure and the legacy of the Third-Front Movement. &gt;&gt;&gt; “端口，物质流，数据山脉”是一次关于当代科技生产基础地貌的调查走访和委任创作项目，始发站“云下贵州”围绕贵州展开。项目试图邀请人文和社科领域的研究者和写作者，进入包括数据中心、智能工厂、环境监测站和FAST射电望远镜在内的“基础设施”内部，将它们视作科技地图上的诸多端口，以在地的方式，鼓励观察式报告、创意影像等形式的知识生产。Port: Material Flows, Data Valleys is a visit-based curatorial project on contemporary technological infrastructure. Initiated by Iris Long and He Zike in early 2021, the project is kindly supported by the Contemporary Visual Art Institute at Guizhou Normal University. With its first stop in Guizhou, China, “Under the Cloud” attempts to find a place for people between nature and technology within a temporal stack. The project also engages with the constant, ordinary foundational structures (including infrastructure and geological environments) that are either invisible or overlooked within our digital lives, as well as their lifespans within the context of deep time. <img width="1758" height="1166" width_o="1758" height_o="1166" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94f6d1a45a6f3e28f259c291af2bc326f5e269fb3ac36176fbf0553618f9a7c3/image-1.png" data-mid="146069206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94f6d1a45a6f3e28f259c291af2bc326f5e269fb3ac36176fbf0553618f9a7c3/image-1.png" /> &gt;&gt;&gt; 2021年8月，当我们在这个谚语中讲述的“地无三尺平，天无三日晴”的内陆山地城市贵阳，从旧城区穿越隧道群及百米高的大桥，来到位于观山湖的高新开发区，看着眼前宽阔的马路与林立的科技大厦，很难想到在2008年这里还是一片山野与农场。卫星快照上，在这个以多云阴沉闻名的城市上空，一朵白云像往常一样飘浮而来，然而它很快就将改变成分，从水分子的聚合物变幻为数字化的信息载体。2021年5月，第七届中国国际大数据产业博览会（Big Data Expo）刚刚在此落下帷幕，“云上贵州”是该地区最大的大数据运营主体，以及苹果iCloud服务在中国大陆的唯一合作伙伴。 50公里外的贵安新区，作为中国第八个国家级的新区，曾是在贵阳与安顺之间为当地人熟知的马场镇和几其他几个乡镇的所在地。2017年苹果公司在亚洲的第一个数据中心在此开始建造，一时间使这个默默无闻的地区名声大噪。甚至早在此之前，这个新区已经获得了包括腾讯、华为和三大运营商在内的数据中心，及富士康、微软、高通等企业的合约。随后短短几年间，这些项目陆续落地完工，并在持续的热度下吸引着新的伙伴。谷歌地球截至2021年底的版本似乎还没来得及完全把握这样的变化，以至于在卫星地图上这个新建的iCloud数据中心一半是机房一半是泥土。当鸟瞰视角缓慢而不再准确时，我们选择了走到现场。 在这次走访中，我们瞥见在“数据”的框架下，贵州在愿景与危机中充满不确定性的未来。它既包含产业高速发展的许诺，也面临人才短缺的现状，技术更新换代的速度和人才培养的速度之间的落差，以及包括冷数据储存、西部的自然资源与算力之间的关系等新生话题。往地下走，这团“云”由一块逐渐石漠化的土地上所承载，往天空去，FAST正在回望宇宙的过去。我们试图探究这些多层展开的时间，是否有助于我们重新思考当下发生的一切。如果了解40年代的大后方转移，60-70年代以国防工业为核心的三线建设，以及更近一些的西部大开发和“西电东送”，也许会对于贵州的叙事及角色产生更多的理解，包括在不同的时期，地缘如何参与塑造了人的意识与活动，并留下了何种遗产。在能够被卫星图像记录的空白之外，我们也许也会听到历史的回声沿着时间通道的壁腔慢速反弹。 <img width="1556" height="1168" width_o="1556" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba4debdc1bdef1508a1034fec68b7545754c0497c12e207a4601bdd25db7989f/image.png" data-mid="146069204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba4debdc1bdef1508a1034fec68b7545754c0497c12e207a4601bdd25db7989f/image.png" /> In August 2021, when we visited the inland city of Guiyang, known for being a place “without three feet of level ground or three days of clear skies,” we traveled from the old city, through webs of tunnels and across bridges hundreds of meters high, to the High-Tech Industrial Development Zone along Guanshan Lake. We took in the broad roads and clusters of tall tech buildings, and it was hard to imagine that this was all mountains and farmland as recently as 2008. On satellite imagery, the usual clouds float over a place famed for its overcast skies. However, the clouds have recently changed in Guizhou; once a collection of water molecules, the word is now most often used to refer to the storage of digital information. In May 2021, at the close of the Seventh China International Big Data Industry Expo, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data was the largest big data company in the region and the only mainland China partner of Apple iCloud services. Some 50 kilometers outside of Guiyang proper lies Gui’an New District, once an obscure township that, in 2017, became the site of Apple’s first data center in Asia, operated in partnership with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data. If you register an iCloud account in China, you’ll get a notification that your data is being hosted by GCBD. Apple is not the only tech firm building data centers in Guizhou. The Gui’an New District authorities proudly highlight data center deals with companies like Tencent, Huawei, and Qualcomm. Even satellite imagery can fail to capture the changes underway around Guiyang: As of late 2021, Google Earth still showed the now-finished GCBD data center as a half-built complex, surrounded by dirt. When the bird’s-eye view was slow to update and no longer accurate, we chose to visit. During this visit, we saw that Guizhou had an uncertain future with this data industry, resting somewhere between hope and crisis. It had made promises to develop the industry rapidly, but it was facing a shortage of talent. The city is also confronting a dislocation between the speeds at which technology and talent can be developed, and the relationship between cool data storage, natural resources in western China, and computing power. The ground on which these “clouds” rest is becoming increasingly rocky, even as FAST looks to the sky above to gain insight into the universe’s past. We attempt to explore whether these temporal stacks can help us to re-think everything that is happening right now. If we understand the shift to the rearguard in the 1940s, the Third Line Movement focused on national defense in the 1960s and 1970s, and the more recent large-scale development of western China and the transfer of electricity from the western to eastern regions, we may gain a better understanding of Guizhou’s narrative and role, including the influence that region has had on shaping human consciousness and activity at different points in time and the kinds of legacies that has left. In addition to the gaps that can be captured on satellite imagery, we may hear the echoes of history slowly rebounding off the walls of the tunnels of time. <img width="1556" height="1166" width_o="1556" height_o="1166" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea4d717dc85e765f4bb46fe59c9317c7788b6157acaef90b4eb5dc2bc5b1bdc3/image-2.png" data-mid="146069207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea4d717dc85e765f4bb46fe59c9317c7788b6157acaef90b4eb5dc2bc5b1bdc3/image-2.png" /> https://temporalstack.com/Main-page Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:20:45 +0000 Under the Cloud https://temporalstack.com/Main-page INDEX <img width="10575" height="4500" width_o="10575" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8709f3d67a23cc30da48db42eea726c5e3fe58d135d7c0820ac9636a41ec1ee/Cover.png" data-mid="202027315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8709f3d67a23cc30da48db42eea726c5e3fe58d135d7c0820ac9636a41ec1ee/Cover.png" /> 云下贵州[出版物]：中国西南地区基础设施研究UNDER THE CLOUD:Infrastructural Studies in Southwest China 出版 PUBLICATION ︎ <img width="1080" height="608" width_o="1080" height_o="608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f17f14b6bb1930ac58f7e875991a1107b44eaf619fdefbf39256e59a695ebe3f/29491655620785_.pic.jpg" data-mid="145860266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f17f14b6bb1930ac58f7e875991a1107b44eaf619fdefbf39256e59a695ebe3f/29491655620785_.pic.jpg" /> 云下贵州[第二期]：端口、物质流、数据山脉UNDER THE CLOUD II: Port,Material Flow, Data Valleys APR 2023走访 SITE VISIT ︎ <img width="818" height="480" width_o="818" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae28eddb11c2c15a37c058c3d286c1b8fd614da72e259cee173de8768664ded2/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.42.00-AM.png" data-mid="141954556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/818/i/ae28eddb11c2c15a37c058c3d286c1b8fd614da72e259cee173de8768664ded2/Screenshot-2022-05-08-at-11.42.00-AM.png" /> 讲座和写作LECTURE AND WRITINGS&nbsp; Read more... 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AUG 2021&nbsp;走访 SITE VISIT&nbsp; ︎ <img width="1400" height="700" width_o="1400" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a64d32977ef47cb704d21edf2d7dc0ec9f567683d98488bb7ebb1bb1c6d003d/942scr.jpeg" data-mid="120673914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a64d32977ef47cb704d21edf2d7dc0ec9f567683d98488bb7ebb1bb1c6d003d/942scr.jpeg" /> FAST,科学史与宇宙学 FAST, History of Science and Cosmology 分享人：李唐（中科院国家天文台） Speaker: Li Tang AUG 2021分享 LECTURE/SHARING SESSION ︎ <img width="802" height="426" width_o="802" height_o="426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b471ef0b06432a159cb340c12628aca99aaa2e0b1fa186761f9875006d89158/Screenshot-2021-11-25-at-5.46.02-PM.png" data-mid="125617717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/802/i/8b471ef0b06432a159cb340c12628aca99aaa2e0b1fa186761f9875006d89158/Screenshot-2021-11-25-at-5.46.02-PM.png" /> 无线电与业余无线电 Radio and Amateur Radio 分享人：沈发新 Speaker Shen Faxin NOV 2021分享LECTURE/SHARING SESSION ︎