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Although aloof from their rural surroundings, distribution centres and server farms are places where the internet becomes visible. Their vast, boxy architecture does not reveal much, if anything, of their interior activity. The underlying distribution chains remain ambiguous: our awareness of their processes, technologies, and working conditions are sparse and fractured. Nevertheless, these infrastructures oversee the supply of food, fashion, and entertainment. Rural areas鈥攐nce solely connected to nature, the harvest of crops, and the herding of cattle鈥攏ow share space and resources with vast distribution centres monopolized by companies like Amazon, Ebay, or Alibaba, which bypass long-established commercial networks altered at the dawn of the internet.

Terms & Expectations is an invitation to reconsider the in铿倁ence of distribution centres as agents within our natural environment. From a politico-ecological perspective, the exhibition delves into their affects and potentialities and stimulates a debate around the limits and repercussions of the infrastructure that supports the digital鈥攁 seemingly immaterial network of digital powers with a high carbon footprint. Terms & Expectations reveals the tangible presence of digital distribution chains that punctuate our physical surroundings and are transforming the topographies of human industry and interaction.