On August 29th, 2026, a programme of talks, workshops, artworks and food will take place at North Clondalkin Library, Rowlagh, in a one-day event 'Another Infrastructure (AI)'. The artist ensemble Drop Table have been exploring the environmental and social impact of data centres and data infrastructure in the area since 2025 as part of a community-engaged project. They are considering alternative forms of infrastructure, such as small-scale data servers, care infrastructures, small-scale money systems, LGBT+ built online tools, and local food systems as topics to counter large-scale data infrastructure. The day of events is free to attend and will include free food, along with different activities aimed at adults and teenagers interested in data, community and care.
For more information feel free to contact Shane Finan (lead artist) at this link.
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Artist |
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10:00-10:30 |
INTRO Cookies, tea & coffee |
Amy Bunce |
A warm welcome and a chance to meet the artists and groups (lecture room) |
Conference Room |
10:30-11:00 |
TALK What you seek... |
Paul O'Neill |
A talk on the intertwined histories of libraries, data centres, knowledge and information |
Conference Room |
11:00-11:30 |
TALK Fragments of a Queer Machine |
Alisha Doody |
A talk about making a game collaboratively with LGBT+ communities around North Clondalkin Library |
Conference Room |
11:30-12:30 |
JOINT SESSION Fragments of a Queer Machine
Stories of Infrastructure |
Alisha Doody with Stairlings Collective
Dasha Ilina |
Create your own game fragments that explore how queer lives, identities and experiences might interact with technologies and systems
A workshop recording stories through rhyme about work and technology |
Cruthú Maker Space
Conference Room |
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12:30-13:30 |
LUNCH Slop |
Amy Bunce |
A lunch with an artistic reflection on slop
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Conference Room |
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13:30-13:50 |
TALK Coins and Tokens |
Shane Finan |
An introduction to online money systems, and using art to subvert them |
Conference Room |
13:50-14:30 |
TALK & MAPPING Invisible Infrastructures |
Living Rhythms in collaboration with the Women's Collective |
Participatory mapping of invisible infrastructures present in and around Clondalkin such as infrastructures of care and relationality embedded in the Women's Collective |
Foyer & Conference Room |
14:30-15:00 |
TALK A Thneed's a Fine-Something-That- All-People-Need |
Dasha Ilina |
Presentation of recordings and talk about unneeded technologies |
Conference Room |
15:00-15:15 |
BREAK
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Tea & Coffee |
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15:15-15:50 |
PANEL Another Infrastructure |
Drop Table all artists |
An open conversation about how all of these projects are coming together in Ronanstown, Rowlagh and Collinstown |
Conference Room |
15:50 |
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