City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground includes a visual research project by Giulia Bruno investigating the hidden architectures, ecologies and energy systems that sustain digital infrastructures. City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground investigates the hidden architectures, ecologies, and energies that sustain digital infrastructures. The exhibition traces the physical foundations of the so-called “cloud,” revealing its entanglement with urban, environmental, and social systems. Through photography and research, Giulia Bruno explores the material and conceptual dimensions of data infrastructures. Her work examines how technological landscapes intersect with human perception, translating the abstract flows of information into tangible spatial and visual experiences. By bringing into focus the architectures of computation and their environmental imprints, her practice opens a critical reflection on the relationship between image, system, and territory.
Curator: Damjan Kokalevski Research Advisor: Marina Otero Verzier Research and Photography: Giulia Bruno Photography: Catherine Hyland Curatorial Assistants: Ramona Kornberger, Leo Paulmichl, Māra Starka Public Program Coordinator: Sarolta Szatmári Student Assistant: Yuval Ehud Exhibition Design: CP WH Graphic Design / Motion: Wiegand von Hartmann Interactive Exhibits: 3E8.STUDIO
Publication: The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by ARCHITANGLE, edited by Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski, and Andres Lepik, available at the Cedon Museum Shop.
Thanks to: Giuseppe Ielasi for editing and sound composition Paola Raheli for dedication, love and support
The Architecture of Data is the publication accompanying City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground, bringing together research, photography and critical perspectives on the material infrastructures of the digital world. City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world. Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centers. While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions — realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation. The contributions in this volume call for greater transparency, critical awareness, and care toward the material foundations of the data economy — as essential conditions for more equitable and accountable digital futures. Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art, and political theory, City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the ecological, social, and political costs of living in a hyper-connected digital world and opens perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.
With contributions by: James Bridle, Giulia Bruno, Teresa Fankhänel, Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Max Hallinan, Mél Hogan, Catherine Hyland, Damjan Kokalevski, Andres Lepik, Niklas Maak, Marija Marić, Anna-Maria Meister, Marina Otero Verzier, Trevor Paglen, Godofredo Enes Pereira, Andra Pop-Jurj, Alison Powell, Māra Starka, and Rafael Uriarte.
the archive as an operational strati-graph. A conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke publication 2025
Interview and concept: Giulia Rispoli in conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.
The Archive as an Operational Strati-Graph is a conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke exploring the archive as a living system where images, data and knowledge sediment, transform and re-emerge.
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The conversation The Archive as an Operational Strati-Graph explores the archive as a living system — a dynamic and layered structure where data, images, and knowledge sediment and re-emerge through processes of observation, documentation, and translation. Through the dialogue between Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke, the text investigates how archives operate as tools of knowledge production and as infrastructures that shape our understanding of the environment, technology, and society. The “operational strati-graph” becomes a conceptual framework to think about how visual and informational strata interact, overlap, and transform over time. The conversation was published in Holotipus, a journal dedicated to interdisciplinary reflections on archives, documentation, and visual culture.
Holotipus is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology Interview and Concept: Giulia Rispoli in conversation with Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke
Photography: Armin Linke, Giulia Bruno Editing: Holotipus Editorial Team Publisher: Holotipus (Biotaxa)
Holotipus is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology.Submitting papers should be addressed toPublisher, Chief Editor or Managing Editor.holotipus@holotipus.it Designed, published and printed in Italy by Holotipus publisher & ActionKlavier studio,Corso Peschiera 315/A, 10141 Torino.Holotipus rivista di zoologia sistematica e tassonomia ISSN 2704-7547PublisherMatteo GrassoNABA Department of Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy), ActionKlavier studio, Corso Pe-schiera 315/A, 10141 Torino (Italy).Edited by Cristina Baldacci & Emiliano GuaraldoUniversità Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali e THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environ-mental Humanities (NICHE), Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D e Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Calle Crosera, 30123 Venezia.Co-Editors-in-ChiefFrancesco VitaliMusée national d’histoire naturelle de Luxembourg (Luxem-bourg).Marco ScotiniHead of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy)
Earth Indices: Processing the Anthropocene is a digital publication by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke exploring geological evidence, scientific images and the processes through which the Anthropocene becomes visible and measurable.
Who is writing the chronicles of the planet? What are the tools and practices that allow us to read Earth’s changes? For many years, artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke have closely followed the Anthropocene Working Group’s (AWG) research on the geological evidence for the new Earth epoch of the Anthropocene. Earth Indices portrays both the natural landscapes from which anthropogenic sediments are extracted as well as the complexities of laboratory processes and the inscription devices they employ to transform the sediment into data that can be interpreted. For the exhibition, a multilayered archive was created that relates the anthropogenic traces in the Earth system to the emerging body of knowledge of a new geological epoch.
The navigable image map and PDF that appear here constitute an in progress digital publication resulting from the artistic installation presented at HKW Berlin 19.05-17.10.2022 and are part of the artwork developed and activated through commenting sessions with the scientists of the AWG hosted by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke. Taking the installation as a starting point, this artistic archiving initiates a conversation with the process being undertaken by the AWG, as they work towards concluding their research and voting on a reference point in order to have the Anthropocene officially recognized as a new subdivision of the geologic time scale.
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke Interview about process description of Earth Indices. Processing the Anthropocene exhibition with Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
This interview with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke reflects on the process behind Earth Indices: Processing the Anthropocene, presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
Giulia Bruno was featured in ArtReview Future Greats, selected by Mark Rappolt for her visually and conceptually dense work on language, technology, perception and visual research.
Giulia Bruno was featured in the Future Greats series of ArtReview (January–February 2018 issue), which highlights emerging voices shaping the future of contemporary art. In the article written by Mark Rappolt, Bruno is recognized for her ability to produce visually and conceptually dense works that resonate deeply with questions of language, technology, and perception. Her project Artificial Act. Research for a Film (2017–), presented at the Off-Biennale Budapest, serves as a central point of discussion. The work explores the constructed nature of communication and translation through the lens of Esperanto — the “universal language” — opening a reflection on power, ideology, and global interconnection. Bruno’s inclusion in Future Greats acknowledges her ongoing research at the intersection of image, science, and society, and positions her among the artists to watch in the coming years.
