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Artists Running Data Centers is a publication where Davide Bevilacqua of servus.at reflects on servus’ hosting of artists-run servers. The publication is made up of interviews with various practitioners that have been part of or hosted by servus.at over the years. Lurk is among the community server practitioners interviewed for the publication!

The research project in David’s own words:

In the circles of servus.at, the expression ARTIST RUN DATA CENTER (ARDC) refers to a set of virtual machines (VMs) set up in the server cluster that artists and collectives use as experimental production space. The first VMs were initiated in the 2010s and conceptualized around 2014 as ARDC. Over the past year, servus engaged again with the expression, the concept and begun a process of restructuring called reARDC – rethinking the Artist Run Data Center, this time involving not only the virtual machines, but also several website systems and the rest of the artists from the communities around servus.at. It initiated a wider discussion on the interconnection between the several components of the association and its activities, the infrastructure and the people inhabiting them.

See https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2024/a-galaxy-called-ardc for more context.

You can find the publication as a (bulky!) PDF(mirror)

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