ASSEMBLY — an exhibition by Olawale Okunrinboye, produced by ARTCRY

Assembly

An exhibition by Olawale Okunrinboye

Produced by ARTCRY

Preproduction

Two figures at a console in an early machine room

A crowded machine room of operators, pipes and kegs of water

An endless grid of desktop computers receding into darkness

A crowd of silhouettes tethered by threads of light to their phones

A vast circuit board suspended above a crowd of connected figures

Line-drawn processors feeding into basins of churning data

Data centre campus beside a reservoir

Cold aisle of server racks

Evaporative cooling towers at dusk

Dry riverbed near a data centre

Snow-covered nordic data centre

Desert data centre cooling units

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A green-lit data centre cooled by a central water vessel

A towering water-cooled machine at the centre of a green-lit server hall

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Fish and invertebrate die-off

Lower flows mean less oxygen dissolved in the water, and shallow water heats up faster. Cold-water species like trout and salmon are hit first, and insect larvae that everything else feeds on go before them.

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