In the Ségur Hall, at the UN Headquarters in Paris, I told the story of an island built to cremate data, to give digital artifacts a good death.
The performance was part of the UN World Futures Day 2023, which I had been invited to, as part of a session on ‘Shifting Futures Perspectives: Experiencing Diverse Futures Approaches in Practice‘.
My short talk on ‘Data End’ is a tale told from the future as a provocation to consider how we might develop our digitial future otherwise, given its cost to communities in land, electricity, and water. It features the digital remains of Pelamis, the wave energy converter.
The session was organised by Cornelius Holttorf, UNESCO Chair in Heritage Futures, and features a fantastic performance by Pedro De Senna, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre at Middlesex University.