Clutter and Peñarroyo’s “Internet Cafe” opens at Works + Words Biennale in Aarhus

Architecture faculty members McLain Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo’s “Internet Cafe” is now on display at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark, as part of the Works + Words Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture. The project is one of four moving through Europe with the INCA exhibition Data Materialities. It was previously on display in Bologna, Italy, and Lugano, Switzerland. 

“Internet Cafe” recreates the experimental nature of early internet cafes in the 1990s. The interactive installation is designed from different building component systems hacked to playfully unite while destabilizing digital and dining habits to create visual and spatial relationships across surfaces and guests. Visitors are invited to sit down and celebrate connection with friends, strangers, and technology.

Peñarroyo presented the project during a two-day symposium at the biennale earlier this month. “Internet Cafe” will be on display in Aarhus through April 10.

INCA, which stands for “Increase corporate political responsibility and accountability,” investigates the impact digital platforms have on European democracies and institutions. Its traveling exhibition, Data Materialities, is a multiyear project focused on the materiality of techno-capitalism on the micro and macro scale.

Read more about “Internet Cafe” in the Taubman College Newsroom.