<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Dear all, (sorry for crossposting)</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">It is a pleasure to invite you to the second edition of Internet Tour in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have ready a fake tech bus, data centers, lithium and turbo-capitalist ruins, if you couldn't come to the first one, second chance, always maybe the last chance.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Internet Tour returns to the Bay Area as part of the Berkeley Center for New Media's 20th year anniversary, with the Arts Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Photos last edition:</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAYwzD">https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAYwzD</a></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">*Internet Tour. San Francisco Bay Area*</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">14 Oct 2024</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; The Indigenous Poetics Lab, Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization as immaterial technologies. The idea of clean, ethereal networks whose data is stored in a bodiless Cloud is nothing but a fallacy that hides thousands of miles of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers, and increasing global energy consumption. The Internet that feeds and fuels AI is made up of a series of materials, constructions, and interventions that are hidden from the naked eye; from inconspicuous buildings in the centers of our cities, to urban beaches where the undersea cables that connect countries and continents are buried under the sand.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">“Internet Tour” is an initiative by artist Mario Santamaría, returning to the Bay Area for a second consecutive year, again in collaboration with Alex Saum-Pascual, and together with the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Arts Research Center. Together, we’ll embark on a collective exploration of the world’s preeminent technology hub, the San Francisco Bay Area, as we unearth its Internet infrastructure. Traveling by bus and on foot across Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland, this guided tour will also feature poetic and artistic experiences. We’ll visit the places through which our voices, images, cryptocurrencies, and future intelligences circulate as cursed matter that flows from the same wound. Where to go from there?</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">More info and tickets:</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><a href="https://arts.berkeley.edu/news/internet-tour">https://arts.berkeley.edu/news/internet-tour</a></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">*Others Internet Tour editions:*</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Internet Tour is an open and replicable tour operator focused on the phenomenon of tele-technologies. Since 2018 its tours have explored the hidden digital infrastructures in dozens of cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Berlin, San Francisco or Paris among many others. Internet Tour is an initiative by Mario Santamaría that allows us to collectively explore this physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-tourist places.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Barcelona (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Madrid (2018, 2023)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Zaragoza (2019)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Bizkaia (2020)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Urbino (2020)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Hospitalet (2022)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Lleida (2022)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Berlin (2022)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">San Francisco Bay Area (2023)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Burgos (2023)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Palma (2023)</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">Paris (2023)</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">More info:  <a href="http://internetour.com/">http://internetour.com/</a></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px;min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px">best,</p></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font size="2">Mario Santamaría</font><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span><span><font size="2"><span></span></font></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.mariosantamaria.net" target="_blank">www.mariosantamaria.net</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></font></font></span></font></span><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font></span><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font></span><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font></span><span><font size="2"><span></span></font></span></span></span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"> </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.mariosantamaria.net" target="_blank"><span><span></span></span></a></font><span></span><span><font size="2"><span></span></font></span><span></span></span><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><span></span>Tourist Guide<br></font><font size="2"><a href="https://t.co/VRcqZjU2D6" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" title="https://internetour.com/" target="_blank"><span>https://</span><span>internetour.com</span></a><br></font></span></div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font></span></font><span><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span>-------</span></font></span></span></font></span></font></span><span><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span>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