Mirage Centers

Mirage Centers is a low-tech static web page by William Jourdain, the Canadian artist working under the moniker of Automatisme. Each day, one generative audiovisual piece is selected from a limited set.

Built from archival recordings of data centers, this work turns the physical cloud into a frugal and sustainable environment.

Artwork compression used here reduces file size by around 90%, and minimizes the energy required to run this micro-ecosystem.

You decide what is loading. Pressing play is the activation, nothing before.

Shadow architecture: no streams until you choose. Most of the web fetches everything by default, without asking you.

A click, less data moved without consent. Imagine that, multiplied by everyone.

One configuration per day. No feed. No catalogue. Limited resources. Deliberate playback.

Mirage Centers enters sleep mode at night. Why should the internet be online 24/7?

Sleep mode.

Mirage Centers is currently offline.

This is a low-tech static web page by William Jourdain, the Canadian artist working under the moniker of Automatisme.

This work is not available at all times. During sleep hours, audio and video are not loaded. The site will return later with the day’s configuration.

A small pause for lighter infrastructure.

Come back later.
xoxo