As internet users, we spend a lot of time underwater. Contrary to popular belief, satellites play a negligible role in beaming our intimate messages, cat footage and work emails across the globe. 99 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic travels through one of over 550 fibre optic cables criss-crossing our oceans. Despite its scale, complexity and entanglement with global systems of power, this network of cables and landing points commonly remains hidden, unless one knows where to look for it.

Taking the shape of an accordion-folded Riso zine, “Under The Sea” provides a sneak peak into the political economy of global internet infrastructures, whose material reality has temporarily become visible during fibre optic network expansion works in The Hague and other Dutch cities.

Recognition:
Excellent Work by Tokyo Type Directors Club

As internet users, we spend a lot of time underwater. Contrary to popular belief, satellites play a negligible role in beaming our intimate messages, cat footage and work emails across the globe. 99 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic travels through one of over 550 fibre optic cables criss-crossing our oceans. Despite its scale, complexity and entanglement with global systems of power, this network of cables and landing points commonly remains hidden, unless one knows where to look for it.

Taking the shape of an accordion-folded Riso zine, “Under The Sea” provides a sneak peak into the political economy of global internet infrastructures, whose material reality has temporarily become visible during fibre optic network expansion works in The Hague and other Dutch cities.

Recognition:
Excellent Work by Tokyo Type Directors Club