Looking Outward – 11

The article “6 Art Projects Prying thre Lid Off Online Privacy” discusses the blurring of private versus public on the internet. We don’t realize how much of our data and information is shared without us even knowing. We use digital applications and services that are “free”, when in reality, data is the currency of social media. Who actually reads the fine print and understands what they are agreeing to? Many artists have explored this space in connection to identity, privacy, and data collection. One of the art pieces shared in this article was “fbFaces” by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay. Roeder and Pirnay used a crawler to search and find public profiles and collect images, facebook IDs, and names. They then pixelated these images, reflecting that they are no longer people, but a whole data network of information that people no longer have control over. This work fosters awareness of how data can be used and what this mean for privacy and identity.

Link : https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x4p43/6-art-projects-prying-the-lid-off-online-privacy