Organisation:
- Raumverteilung for the AAA
- Ebru – Meeting on the 5th of November
- Fundings and Anträge for Diploma
Weltmuseum – Inspiration
Knitting – Fails
Tension, Yarn, image, connection computer, size , one needle broken ….
frustration…… so i went back to research
KRONSDORF /GOOGLE DATACENTER
Location: Small town in Upper Austria (3,500 inhabitants), former agricultural land.
Scale: One of Europe’s largest planned data centers, with further expansion proposed.
Energy: Potential consumption equivalent to hundreds of thousands of households; further expansion could approach one-third of Upper Austria’s annual electricity use. -> (article from 2010 speaking from whole Kronsdorf)https://www.diepresse.com/568607/kronstorf-wie-google-eine-gemeinde-veraendert?utm_source=chatgpt.com
solarpanels on roof only 1% of their enegry consuption
Water: Up to 200 L/s extracted for cooling; heated water returned to the Enns River (up to 30°C).
problems could be also chemical -> Sulfat
Also: Approximately 100 permanent positions expected, noise ! No comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (UVP) required., larger diesel reserves in the case of multiple emergency power generators
HEAT, NOISE, CHEMICALS ……
i looked for Inspiration…..
….back to making, with new wool
Copper wire
Textile Speaker
Projectname Inspiration
“Tu Nube Seca Mi Río” (Your Cloud Dries My River) is a grassroots activist movement in Spain that campaigns against the massive water and electricity consumption of hyper-scale data centers.
When Computers Where Woman: research article from Jennifer S. Light
Fiberpunk by Ebru Kurbak
Project Description first try
Textiles have long been entangled with computation. Yet textile practices, historically associated with feminized labour, remain largely overlooked in dominant narratives of technology. Often dismissed as trivial or decorative, they reveal deeper assumptions about whose skills and knowledge are valued.
Taking the Google data center in Kronstorf, the project investigates the material and ecological realities behind our seemingly immaterial digital world. What if a server could listen to its environment rather than merely extract resources from it? What if technology were built around care, interdependence and ecological awareness?
Through experimental knitting and handmade electronics I want to explores alternative ways of constructing computational technologies. By unraveling threads of textiles’ storied past and weaving possibilities for their future, the project challenges established ideas of what constitutes technology. Rather than accepting the narrow possibilities of dominant technological systems, it seeks to expand them, grounded in care and overlooked forms of knowledge.
Next Steps
-thermochronic yarn from last feedback with silkscreen print
-continue with the copper and different metal wires and building electronic parts out of it ! (use also digital knitting)
-Idea: Built a tool with sensors to measure temp, sound,…. of enns and use these data
-making kind of an own server with the raspi
-maybe go back to Kronsdorf and make proper images
-use (iron)sulfat to color textile
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