_Video installation, Niels Schrader & Roel Backaert, 2020_
 
Listen to the discomforting hum of the Nieuwe Instituut’s data servers while you watch _Acid Clouds_, a photo essay and research project by graphic designer [Niels Schrader](https://www.minddesign.info/about.html) and photographer [Roel Backaert](http://www.roelbackaert.com). _Acid Clouds_ documents the extensive network of data centers in the Netherlands, exploring their physical infrastructures as well as their often-hidden environmental impacts. 

Listen to the discomforting hum of the Nieuwe Instituut’s data servers while you watch Acid Clouds, a photo essay and research project by graphic designer Niels Schrader and photographer Roel Backaert.

Part laboratory, part exhibition space, -1 responds to the urgent need to address critical issues in digital culture, from the rapid advancement of AI and the reemergence of do-it-yourself technology to the inclusion of more diverse and alternative voices in computing. 

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