Artist Talk with Emma Charles and Dehlia Hannah
As part of the exhibition Architecture of Hidden Activity – The physical Dimension of the Digital (curated by Marie Rief and Silja Yvette), the gallery invites you to a conversation between artist Emma Charles and curator and natural philosopher Dehlia Hannah.
Following the screening of the films Fragments on Machines (2013) and White Mountain (2016) Dehlia Hannah and Emma Charles will discuss her working methods and artistic inquiries, offering insights into how physical digital infrastructures invisibly permeate both urban environments and natural landscapes—and the considerable material and energetic effort required to store and protect data.
In White Mountain, Emma Charles explores the Pionen Data Centre in Stockholm—an underground server facility housed in a former Cold War bunker that was converted into a data centre in 2008. The film examines the protected architecture of data and the value we assign to digital information.
Fragments on Machines reveals the physical framework and materiality of the internet—embedded within the urban fabric of New York City. The film traces the evolution of the city’s architecture while illuminating the material nodes and connections that underpin the “virtual” world.
Emma Charles is an artist working across film, photography and sound. She studied Photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work moves fluidly between documentary and fiction, engaging with the intersections of technology and geology. She explores various forms of invisibility, from the physical spaces of unseen technologies to more immaterial conceptions of the unseen.
Dehlia Hannah is a curator and natural philosopher, and Associate Professor of Environmental Aesthetics at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Through her exhibitions and artistic collaborations, she examines how emerging scientific knowledge and technologies shape aesthetic engagements with concepts of nature.
The talk will be held in English.
