M o n u m e n t s  t o  t h e  U s e r

Part 2 of a series of group exhibitions exploring Darkness as an architectural methodology as opposed to the transparency of modernism.

The internet is a self-perpetuating service. It is a place where people go to access information that someone before them has previously stored. But in doing so, they are indirectly revealing information about themselves depending on the information they choose to access. Search engines and websites cater themselves according to their users’ preferences and search history for a more efficient individual browsing experience, making the internet an increasingly unique, though publicly advertised, space from person to person. Meanwhile, it continues to grow unmeasured the more people contribute to it. Whereas it seems impossible to visualize this collective, variable space, we can imagine an open series of individual spaces based on the information offered up by the individuals who have access to it.

Several people around the building were asked what object best represents the internet for them. These objects were then re-interpreted and visualized as actual server rooms, physical monuments to the internet and its users.

Visiting Critic Mona Mahall
Cornell University
Fall 2016

Exhibition October 28–November 4, 2016