Project 02

Project 02

Project 02 spirals outward from the security fence at Google’s data center in The Dalles, Oregon to expand our understanding of the cultural and ecological underpinnings of the internet. The photographic, video, audio, and archival media exhibition traces the entanglements of Google’s first hyperscale data center (completed in 2006) with the process of settler colonialism in the northwestern United States.

View of Sand Pit Looking Northwest, November 12, 1912 (1912/2019)
24x36 pigment print - National Archives and Records Administration


Blasts from the Construction of The Dalles - Celilo Canal, 1913 (1913/2019)
(4) 24x36 pigment prints - National Archives and Records Administration


View from the Parking Lot at Lake Celilo State Park, 2019 (1912/2019)
4K video/audio loop, TRT, 45min


Google Data Center, The Dalles, OR, 2019 (2019)
24x36 pigment print


Bonneville Power Administration Scientific Computing System (2019)
11x14 pigment print - Bonneville Power Administration


Bonneville Power Administration Administrative Meeting (2019)
11x14 pigment print - Bonneville Power Administration


Google Employee Shuttle Driving Over Fiber-optic Conduit, The Dalles, OR, 2019 (2019)
24x36 pigment print

Moonset Over Fiber-optic Junction, The Dalles, OR, 2019 (2019)
24x36 pigment print

Four Stills from Hydro: Power to Make the American Dream Come True (1939) (2019)
(4) 24x36 pigment prints (digital transfer of VHS transfer of 35mm film) - Bonneville Power Administration

Data Center Details, 2021 (2021)
Excerpt from three channel video & audio installation