The data centre is the architectural intersection of economic power and information. It is also a glass house and a castle of air. In my work, Failed Attempt (Emulates Yesterday) the overturned glass plinth follows the exact dimensions of a small data server rack. But instead of data, it holds nothing but shadows from the two words written in silica sand, lying porously on top. Silica sand and computer screens are entropically made from the same material – as the industry behind Silicon Valley relies on the extraction of silicium in order to produce microchips, screens and technological hardware.

The Captcha wording here, belongs to a generation of earlier security puzzles, generated by a Google-owned company called ReCAPTCHA. The business model of ReCAPTCHA was to mass-digitize books for Google by outsourcing the task to millions of internet users. The sand and the glass data server rack, is as vulnerable to interference, as the digital infrastructure that shaped our societies since the beginning of the millennia