Some documentation of an audio-visual installation on “crypto-minding” I contributed to:

A century of manic industrialization has left us with ample cheap energy, real estate, and infrastructure around the world. A growing wave of “crypto-entrepreneurs” have been converting decommissioned industrial spaces into “crypto mining” facilities, burning carbon-based fuels to solve endless algorithms and create dubious value. This showcase highlights various computational techniques to engage with and address community concerns surrounding the externalized impacts of the Greenidge Bitcoin Mining power plant on Seneca Lake in New York state. Through specific interventions into questions regarding public sentiment, counter-surveillance, and thermal water pollution. This is about exploring not only the production of public knowledge but also how to co-create computer-assisted repertoires of contention for radical social organizing and political communication.