Date: 2021
Medium: 5-Unit Datacenter server rack, Valentia Slate, Copper, Cross section of 19th Century undersea cable.
Dimensions: 42cm (h) x 60.96cm (w) c 80.01cm (d)
These unique seats, designed for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021, embed histories of telecommunication infrastructure through their form and materiality. The purple-hued slate from Valentia quarry, the site of the first transatlantic undersea cable landing in the mid-19th Century, has been etched and filled with copper-resin to record the pathway and landing co-ordinates of various undersea data cables from the last 150 years. Each seat also contains a cross-section of the original undersea cable that brought the first electronic messages from Valentia island to Newfoundland in the 1850s. The seating surfaces are mounted into 4-unit steel data center server cabinets
(Produced with ANNEX collective for the Irish Pavilion at 17th Biennale Architettura 2021, Venice, Italy).
