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AND Festival 2021’s Online Hub - was a space created to explore the 2021 festival programme via our interactive map. Each floating object represents an element of the programme - from online exhibitions to physical experiences, and our full film and talks programme which was broadcasted via the Live Channel.
THE MAP
Move around the map using your cursor and click on an object to interact. This enables a pop up about that artwork or project, from there you can travel to the online exhibition space that was created, and head to the AND website for more information.
Click on Digital Carbon Footprint to find out what is meant by a “digital carbon footprint” and how this is visualised here.
To see the projects still live from the 2021 festival please visit andfestival.org.uk
*AND Festival 2021 was supported using public funding by Arts Council England with additional support from British Council, Creative Industries Fund Netherlands, The Space and Film Hub North (National Lottery funding from BFI Film Audience Network) and in collaboration with Wirral Borough Council.
Programme partners were British Library, Canal & River Trust, Culture Liverpool, Culture Warrington, Maritime Digital, Merseytravel, The Daniel Adamson Preservation Society, Portico: Portsmouth’s Cargo Terminal, Super Slow Way, Wigan Council, Wirral Council and York Mediale.*
Web Design and Development: Alex Piacentini
3D Artist: Alex Futtersak
Production: Abandon Normal Devices
Supported by The Space
The digital age has brought many benefits that have a positive impact on the fight against climate change and reducing CO₂ emissions, decreasing the need for international travel and industrial production. However, the production, use and transfer of data causes more CO₂ emissions than you might expect, referred to as our “digital carbon footprint”.
In 2019, 4.1 billion people worldwide had access to the Internet. Every search query, streamed video and cloud computing action is responsible for ever-​increasing global demand for energy, increasing CO₂ emissions. The majority of this digital footprint is caused by video streaming due to large data sizes of videos - by comparison, using a search engine or sending text-​only emails has a negligible impact.
It is difficult to estimate exactly how large our digital impact is. Studies estimate this to account for 2.3-3.7% of global COâ‚‚ emissions, equivalent to the emissions of the entire aviation industry. On an individual level, it is possible to estimate more precisely how high the COâ‚‚ emissions are and how they can be reduced by simple means.
Despite being perceived as immaterial, the infrastructure we call the 'internet', the ethereal cloud, is greedy for resources. Like in Hayao Miyazaki’s toxic jungle, floating particles pollute the air, and toxic waste contaminates land and water. Kilometres of cables run across ocean floors to connect the continents; and uncountable tonnes of materials are used to manufacture the servers that store and transfer our data (our usage increasing by 80% every five years - source). Billions of kilowatts of energy are used to power these machines, cool the data centres that host them and power the devices of users.
The waste in the background of the map is composed by traces of your online activity: cookies of sites you visited, http headers containing informations about your browser and device and pieces of the data that composes this site. The numbers below show the amount of waste that is produced by your navigation updated in real time.
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