Presenting THIRST/ For Knowledge: Artistic explorations of water, land and AI data centres
Within the context of the panel ‘How to explain erosion rates to a dead hare: Or, what counts as soil data in the Anthropocene?’
Convened by Alexandra Toland and Anna Krzywoszynska.
Landscapes, humans and data centres are all bodies of water. The artwork THIRST/For Knowledge explores the new artificial ocean that flows through the internal material systems of AI data centres worldwide, focussing on a landscape in transition where an AI data centre is being built.
In this panel discussion, Kat presented her work on THIRST/For Knowledge and the evolving impact of AI as an embodied and agentic entity with a watery body.