March 7, 2025 → April 30, 2025
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 9-16:00
Fri 9-15:00
Opening/vernissage:
March 7, 2025, 15.00-17.00
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 København
Admission:
Free
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On 7 March, join Artist Jacob Remin, Associate Professor James Maguire and Postdoc Frauke Mennes from the Center for Climate IT at ITU for the launch of Within Limits – an art installation that questions and reimagines the scalar logics inherent in computational worlds.
Over the past 30 years, digital technologies have radically changed how we live our lives. Not only have they penetrated both private and public spheres with promises of efficiency, ease and connection, but they also claim to radically reorganise many of society’s grand challenges – from solving climate change, to alleviating poverty, to rebalancing work-life relations. These promises bring with them an imaginary of computational practices as grand endeavours in need of unconstrained resources to satisfy their speed and scale. What they leave out is a host of questions around the type of computation society can live with.
On 7 March, join Artist Jacob Remin – in collaboration with Associate Professor James Maguire and postdoc Frauke Mennes from the Center for Climate IT at ITU –for the launch of Within Limits – an art installation that questions and reimagines the scalar logics inherent in computational worlds.
Grounded in studies on the environmental impact of digital technologies and AI, the installation is an experiment that both provokes questions and proposes new ways of doing computation with constraints. By deploying a solar powered server on ITUs rooftop as a means of constraining computation work, the installation opens up a series of questions around the politics and poetics of computation. For this, Jacob has worked together with Sebastian Büttrich from DASYA lab, Luis Landa Mariaca, and Facilities Management.
"We have placed a solar powered computation platform on the roof of ITU”, says Jacob. “While this gesture is seemingly simple, it creates a completely new kind of computation space: A server structure which is located, physical, and within limits. It will be exciting to see what kind of work the students and researchers will do with the server in the future!"
The exhibition will be launched on 7 March from 15.00 – 17.00 in the Atrium of the IT University of Copenhagen and will include a word from the artist and organisers, with space for discussion. Everyone is welcome, no registration needed. After the launch the exhibition will run until the end of April, with a break between 22 - 25 March. The exhibition is open to the public within ITU’s opening hours.
The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.