Jobs in the Data Industrial Complex: Four Stories from the Field
Professor Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
Friday 8 June 2018, from 6pm
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
Room B04
London
WC1H 0PD
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jobs-in-the-data-industrial-complex-four-stories-from-the-field-tickets-46519292456
Abstract
What Would Google Do? This is the question that government managers, educational administrators, and business leaders have pondered for nearly twenty years of data center development and innovation marketing in Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2014, this question became public when Google formally announced it would expand there by building its largest data center in Western Europe. Since then, I have been following the stories of Google’s coming. In this talk, I offer the infrastructural prehistory of these cloud dreams, followed by three perspectives on what Google does.
This event is part of Data Materialityhttp://www.publiclysited.com/data-materiality-collaborative-birmacvasari-project/, a three-year collaborative project co-sponsored by the Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culturehttp://www.bbk.ac.uk/birmac/, and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technologyhttp://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/.
Jobs in the Data Industrial Complex: Four Stories from the Field
Professor Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
Friday 8 June 2018, from 6pm
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
Room B04
London
WC1H 0PD
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jobs-in-the-data-industrial-complex-four-stories-from-the-field-tickets-46519292456
Abstract
What Would Google Do? This is the question that government managers, educational administrators, and business leaders have pondered for nearly twenty years of data center development and innovation marketing in Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2014, this question became public when Google formally announced it would expand there by building its largest data center in Western Europe. Since then, I have been following the stories of Google’s coming. In this talk, I offer the infrastructural prehistory of these cloud dreams, followed by three perspectives on what Google does.
This event is part of Data Materiality<http://www.publiclysited.com/data-materiality-collaborative-birmacvasari-project/>, a three-year collaborative project co-sponsored by the Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/birmac/>, and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/>.
