Ingrid Burrington is an alumnus of Data & Society. She is an artist who writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both. She’s the author of Networks of New York, an illustrated field guide to urban internet infrastructure, and has previously written for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Verge, and other outlets. Her work has previously been supported by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Rhizome.
Ingrid Burrington

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MotherboardD&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington speculates whether or not possible threats to internet infrastructure are in fact threats. To take out some of the major chokepoints of the internet wouldn't be impossible, and it ... Read on MotherboardJuly 2016 -
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The AtlanticThe grand finale of D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington's gonzo series of essays on Internet infrastructures, this piece explores northern Virginia in search of Amazon Web Services data centers — and explores the ge... Read on The AtlanticJanuary 2016 -
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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington explores how the FCC's net neturality rules are applied differently to mobile carriers than to wired broadband carriers and the effects on how people experience and perceive the mob... Read on The AtlanticDecember 2015 -
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The AtlanticD&S Artist in Residence Ingrid Burrington contemplates network infrastructure, underlining the fact that today's infrastructure can’t last much longer under the strain of exponentially expanding connectivity demands. She su... Read on The AtlanticDecember 2015 -
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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington shares impressions from a tour of Facebook's massive Altoona data center, and wonders about the extent to which Facebook might be creating an infrastructure to rival the internet it... Read on The AtlanticDecember 2015 -
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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington on how the history of infrastructure in the U.S. contributes to Iowa's status a hub of the data-center industry. Google didn’t come to Council Bluffs because of historical resonanc... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The AtlanticIf we measure infrastructure in terms of ROI, of course it doesn't make sense to build out fiber to the home in Point Arena. By that measure, it also doesn't really make sense to build bridges. Or roads. Or aqueducts. Public go... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington answers three important questions about submarine internet cables: who owns them, who builds them and how do they end up where they end up? Today's submarine-cable networks are i... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The Atlantic"It turns out driving directly toward huge, looming storm clouds is a great rhetorical device to employ on a road trip to see cloud infrastructure—and also a great way to be faced with the cruel truth of your own mortality." D... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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The Atlantic"Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet." Former fellow and current artist in residence at D&S, Ingrid... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015