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weapons of data destruction
QUARTER 14
paper
references
PICTURES
Collaborators
THARIM CORNELISSE
Major // illustration
PAGE THARIM
JEANINE VERLOOP
Major // illustration
PAGE JEANINE
Contents
Forward/Introduction
Tharim is the digital, Jeanine is the craft.
Where Jeanine is running in material stations, Tharim likes to stare at his screen for hours. We teamed up because we complement each others flaws and because of our shared view on art, aesthetics and technology. We don't consider ourselves classic illustrators and feel a strong urge to work with interesting techniques and materials.
Abstract
Social media is getting more and more accurate in showing you what it thinks you want and believe. It creeps us out because the algorithm used is under the surface, we see no physical explanation. Because of this people are feeling watched and not safe. And so we gather around the campfire, telling stories of the modern boogieman lurking in the shadows of our devices, spying and gathering information.
Within this conflict we fought a small battle. Our weapons of choice: tactile and understandable devices, which create dirty data.
Central Question
How does the individual cope with data farming?
Relevance of the Topic
We feel a connection with the subject because it is a part of our lives. We encounter the consequences of it everyday. We create an opinion about it and we react in a certain way to it. Data farming is a very present-day subject. We are on a critical point of learning how to deal with it. People are afraid of it just like every other time in the past when technology makes a jump [1].
Hypothesis
Our work (hopefully) is going to make people think, reflect and laugh. Half of the work will be a solution to problems people encounter within the echo chamber and the other half will critique this way of looking at things. We want people to think about their own way of dealing with the echo chamber.
We hope to make people more aware of the complexity of the whole thing. There is not one person to blame and not one solution to it all.
Research Approach
The subject is very actual. There are hundreds of news articles to read about it, and thousand times more individual opinions to find on the internet. All of these sources were valuable to us to form our own opinion and to make a sketch of the human reaction to the echo chamber.
Key References
Instagram is listening to you, Damián Le Nouaille [2]
Please Instagram, explain to me how you’re doing this. I’m a developer, I know how iOS and networks work, and I’m still very curious about the technology you’re using.
Thero Privacy control, Roman Torre and Angeles Angulo
'Privacy and security on the Internet is a hotly debated topic. On the one hand, there’s a possible need to be able to track and find people that would like to to others harm. On the other, there’s the idea that it’s no one else’s business what you search for, or what websites you visit. Still another faction would simply like to sell and use this data for profit in exchange for the use of their services. All of these issues come together to make security choices complicated for computer-savvy individuals, and likely nearly impossible for those that aren’t.'
'To address this issue, Roman Torre and Angeles Angulo have come up with a Raspberry Pi 3-based physical device called THERO that lets you manage security settings with the turn of a dial.' [3]
Literature
“I produce my voice, but my voice also produces me.”
RESONANT BODIES VOICES MEMORIES - Johanna Biľak
“And what is voice if it is not simply an instrument for self-expression and self-realisation we can
command?”
Steven Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. pp. 3 - 5 and pp. 342 - 346
Jean-Peul Satre - Being and Nothingness [4]
Experiments
(what are you going to test out and why) Different ways of lying to ourselves:
Waarom is dit nog relevant? Ons zelf voorliegen om een andere input te geven aan het web?
Lyrebird.ai Etiketten Autocorrect
Material experimentation with concrete, aduino and wood (lasercutter)
Insights from Experimentation
(what have you pulled from your hands on practice based research?)
Artistic/Design Principles
(what is your own criteria for designing?)
Artistic/Design Proposal
(what do you propose to make)
Realised work
(what did you actually make)
Final Conclusions
(what was the point? what do you take away?)
Bibliography
