Field Trip #4: Mar 18 2016

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By , April 5, 2016

Location: TierPoint (previously Windstream) data center (Franklin, IL)

Organizers: Kera Mackenzie (MFA'13 in Moving Image, UIC) and Alejandro Acierto (MFA'14 in New Media Arts, UIC)

Attendees: Alejandro Acierto, Satya Basu, Nicole Bitler Kuehnle, Kera Mackenzie, Richard Williamson; Marissa Lee Benedict (Program Coordinator, Arts, Science & Culture, UChicago)

Schedule:

8:30 AM Metra to Franklin, IL

9:00 AM Picked up at Franklin station by Guy Martion (Sales Rep, TierPoint)

9:30 AM Tour of TierPoint / Windstream data center facilties

12 PM Group lunch

12:40 PM Metra returning to Chicago, IL

[Note: NO PHOTOGRAPHY was allowed in the data center itself for securtiy purposes]

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Kera MacKenzie (left) and Alejandro Acierto (right) confirming Metra ride to Franklin, IL.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows boarding Metra train to Franklin, IL.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Kera MacKenzie and Alejandro Acierto (left); Nicole Bitler and Satya Basu (right) on Metra to Franklin, IL.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Richard Williamson and Nicole Bitler Kuehnle on Metra ride to Franklin, IL.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Kera MacKenzie on Metra ride to Franklin, IL.

Franklin, IL Metra station

Digital Realty property under construction for increased data center capacity (Franklin, IL).

Exiting the TierPoint data center after tour and lunch.

Powerlines from two different stations, multiple generators, and dual water cooling systems provide redundancy, supporting the fragile data center in emergency situations.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Richard Williamson on Metra ride returning to Chicago, IL.

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Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide is a trans-disciplinary consortium of Fellows from The University of Chicago (UChicago), The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The consortium is a platform for communication across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and an initiative to move these conversations off-campus and into the urban environment. Field Notes will document field trips taken by the fellows, present the fellows and their bodies of research, and be an experimental platform for conversation amongst those involved in the program.