Emma Charles

In her work that blends fiction and documentary, Emma Charles, born in 1985 and based in London, develops a study of the physical and material conditions for the existence of networks. The artist scrutinises the non-places that constitute data storage centres, shining a spotlight on these architectures destined for machines. The imprint of the physical infrastructures of digital technology on the natural and built environment sometimes reveals the coexistence of human, natural and digital activities, and sometimes outlines the transfer of the central locations of post-industrial capitalism toward virtual space, leaving its mark on urbanism and the architecture of cities. 

Emma Charles, White Mountain (2016, 21 min)  
Emma Charles, Fragments on Machines (2013, 17 min) 
Emma Charles, Interview with Pionen Architect, Albert France-Lanord (2016, 5 min) 
Emma Charles, Nuclear Salt (2022, approx. 10 min)

The "Networks-Worlds" collective exhibition questions the role of networks in contemporary society, innervated by social networks and dematerialisation. More than ever, in the age of the Internet, networks lie at the heart of technological transformations and societal issues: surveillance, atomisation of the individual, the actor-network. From the birth of the information society in the post-war period to the omnipresence of the planetary network, with the Internet, networks weave their webs all over, through space and time.