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Information is not smokeless

Image source: Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler’s Calculating Empires (A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500) (2023).

SHAPE Post-Doc and our research program member Renée Ridgway presented her paper ‘Information is not smokeless: search infrastructures as environmental media,’ which showcases online artworks, data visualisations and physical art installations at the NordMedia conference in Odense, on August 13, 2025.
The lecture was part of the ‘Digital technologies, materiality, and the environment’ stream organised by Technology Working Group (TWG) that together researches digital technologies, materiality, and the environment.