This research is still in progress. It is a project that seeks to reflect on and engage with many of the key issues of our current networked society. As these issues further expand and permeate our lives, projects and interventions such as C-Node need to continually adapt and evolve to react to them. In relation to AWS and the many other tech companies of the digital era, their influence and dominance is not just through the digital interfaces we interact with, but also in the physical, real world. The physical infrastructure of ICTs spans borders, markets, states, and ideologies. This means that, although C-Node is a project rooted in Dublin, the issues it highlights and the creative dissemination of research it suggests are relevant and applicable anywhere. Artistic interventions and technological provocations not only raise awareness of these issues, but also promote an engagement with technology that is more critical and reflective than conventional discourses. It is important to disseminate practice-based research beyond the academy or gallery in order to share information with others who may not normally have access to such information. In turn, the conversations generated by disseminating such research outside of 'traditional' areas can lead to more engagement, more discourse, and perhaps galvanize other inter-ventions. C:Node seeks to promote participatory engagement so that others can explore the corporate topologies of the internet that surround us, collectively and critically.
Acknowledgements
The tour images used in this article feature participants from The School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe Future Landscapes program that took place in Galway and Dublin in May 2019.
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