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Every day emails we send, websites we visit, our online payments, messages we send to our loved ones passes through data centers. How come something that shapes our lives remains invisible? How does internet look like? We can’t see it, we cant touch it, and therefore we tend to think about it as if it was something far from the tangible infrastructure and physical labour.

This collective project reveals the tangible networks beneath our online interactions, woven into our cities as part of the urban landscape. It envisions an alternative feminist data center, inseparable from daily life and collective practices.

The material access token marks the steps needed to reach the “port”—a feminist data center. As hosts, we ask you to remove your shoes before entering, a gesture of care and respect.

This web journey exposes what lies behind our interactions, uncovering the hidden infrastructures and overlooked objects of the network.

The internet is physical, running beneath our feet in fiber-optic cables, deeply rooted in the urban fabric.

Mapping the invisible - How do you see the Internet?

I was wondering about the fact that infrastructure usually goes unnoticed until it stops working. How is it that the Internet, which basically shapes our everyday life, still seems for many of us, to magically appear in our homes. Stock images show the Internet mainly through the prism of the cloud metaphor. Usually the image vaguely shows several devices connected to each other and to the "cloud", but talking about the Internet using metaphors only makes the entire infrastructure, physicality and tangibility behind it remain invisible.

I was wondering how others see the Internet. I organized a dinner during which I asked my friends to draw on the tablecloth how they see the Internet and how they access it. I only stressed that everyone should also include their house in the drawing. Together we created a map of the Internet, gradually adding more and more to it. Connections began to appear between our houses, more and more lines went to the data center placed on the tablecloth. We have also marked "sea of ​​spam" and "island of social media". Each participant saw the Internet in such a different way. How come something that basically shapes our lives stays invisible...