Digital Earth

About the organization

Digital Earth’ refers to the materiality and immateriality of the digital reality we live in – from data centers to software interfaces and rare minerals to financial derivatives. Earth is dug, excavated, and ripped apart to extract the fundamental materials that keep the computational machine running – oil, coltan, sand, rubber, lithium form the material basis on which digital reality is built. At the same time, digital technologies enable new modes of circulation and extraction, of information and data.