Cloudplexity

Cloudplexity is a series initiated in 2019 that compiles representations of the internet extracted from the United States patent database. Santamaría selects diagrams that represent the internet and presents them as a succession of images that question the way we imagine the network and the metaphor of the cloud.

Mario Santamaría

Mario Santamaría (Burgos, 1985) is a visual artist based in Barcelona who works with installations, photography, video, performance, websites and online interventions. His artistic practice explores the internet's physical and political infrastructures and the relationships between technology, territory and perception.

Since 2010, he has researched the physical manifestations of data and information and questioned the metaphors we use to represent networks and the digital. In 2018, he founded Internet Tour, an initiative conceived as a tour operator organising experiences centred on the network's material infrastructure.

His work has been shown in venues such as MACBA in Barcelona, ZKM in Karlsruhe, WKV in Stuttgart, C/O Berlin, Aksioma in Ljubljana and Arebyte in London. He has been resident artist at Hangar Barcelona, HISK Ghent and Sarai New Delhi and finalist for the Fotomuseum Winterthur Post-Photography Prototyping Prize.