<div dir="ltr">Sorry for any cross posting...<br><div><br>Gretta
Louw writes about Guido Segni’s 'A quiet desert failure', an ongoing
algorithmic performance in which a custom bot traverses the datascape of
Google Maps in order to fill a Tumblr blog and its datacenters with a
remapped representation of the Sahara Desert.<br><br>"The Sahara Desert
is the largest non-polar desert in the world covering nearly 5000 km
across northern Africa from the Atlantic ocean in the west to the Red
Sea in the east, and ranging from the Mediterranean Sea in the north
almost 2000 km south towards central Africa. The notoriously
inhospitable climate conditions combine with political unrest, poverty,
and post-colonial power struggles across the dozen or so countries
across the Sahara Desert to make it surely one of the most difficult
areas for foreigners to traverse. And yet, through the ‘wonders’ of
network technologies, global internet corporations, server farms, and
satellites, we can have a level of access to even the most problematic,
war-torn, and infrastructure-poor parts of the planet that would have
been unimaginable just a few decades ago."<br><br><a href="https://t.co/drYlOCe13x">https://t.co/drYlOCe13x</a></div></div>