White Mountain

At the exhibition from March 21, 2018 to May 27, 2018

A 16 mm docu-fiction film set in and around the Pionen data center, a former Cold War era civil defense bunker buried thirty meters underground in Stockholm and redesigned by architect Albert France-Lanord in 2008 to house large servers, notably having included those of WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, fish and lush greenery coexist alongside the flashing lights of the data storage systems. With poetic narration written by Jussi Parikka, the film explores the temporal nature of data space and geology.

Gathering vibrational and electromagnetic sound from the rock face above the data center as well as deep inside the server room itself, a soundscape has been created that both reveals and processes the reverberations of the hidden environment.