DATAFIED

How has data and technology affected your perception of the reality in terms of identity, truth, ambition, dreams and working life?

If we didn’t have technology would we still want to be artists?
How has technology affected peoples sex lives? Destroyed the erotic, there’s no taboo or mystery anymore
Statistically, this generation that has the least sex, but we are the most connected gen
How we never dream about our phones, but we spend a lot of time on it
Technology affected our sleeping patterns too.
Overall, technology has had a balanced impact on my life. It’s not necessarily good or bad, it is. Like I was born black, I cannot compare the experience it is just how I see and exist the same with growing up with technology
Social isolation. I feel as if I am connected with everyone everywhere all the time, and it has become the Truman show. I am told it is a blessing, this inter-connectedness but
“when you’re on the phone, the reason you pace around is because you’re trying to find the person you’re talking to”
Web 1.0- the internet before it was colonised by corporations
It wasn’t regulated, and was mostly chatrooms and a few “geo-cities”
After the year 2000, it gradually became commercialised
The aesthetic became less lo-fi and glitzier to draw you in and take up more of your time
Documentary “Press, pause, play” about creativity in the digital age

How do you feel about the data you create being harvested and sold on to third party companies?

They know a lot about us, but we know nothing about them
Where does the information go? Who can see it? Is it even used? There’s a complete lack of knowledge
It could be used against us, politically and set for crimes we haven’t committed
Lack of privacy: how do they know about us?? Is it all even true?
There are protests in Iran, so the government completely shut off the internet for the entire country so that information could not be shared
There’s a paranoia- these people and large corporations know us intimately but to what extent and how can they use that information?
cookies
each individual generates data is worth approx. £100,000

Fundamentally, the Internet is public
There may be 'private' spaces on the internet, but like a house it isn't aren't completely secure or free from access.
but what is it to be private? does it mean for something to be private?
A space/ place in which you control the access to it
But if the internet has these spaces of 'controlled access', and alike a house it isn't completely secure from people who may find ways in, does this mean that the internet is public? or semi-public?
I believe ultimately, the internet is public

Do you have more privacy online or in real life?
We’re generating so much data, that there is no way we can process it all
Most of it is left untouched, but the downside is that scientists and corporations are developing even more powerful systems which can amass and analyse larger sets of data
BIG DATA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PREDICT WHAT YOU DO IN THE FUTURE
IT COMPARES YOU TO WHERE YOU LIVE, WHO WITH, THE AREA AND COMPARES IT TO PEOPLE IN A SIMILAR DATA FIELD AND WHAT THEY DO IN 10,5, 15 YEARS
LIKE FACEBOOK LIKES CAN DETERMIND IF PEOPLE WILL BE DIVORCED IN 6 MONTHS
AND TARGET WAS ABLE TO ACCURATELY PREDICT THE PREGNANCY FOR A WOMAN WHO WAS BUYING PRODUCTS THROUGH THEIR SITE
Does that mean that companies have more power than countries? They have all your data

Is my data actually mine? Comparable to walking in the park and leaving a footprint in the mud
“to live is to leave traces”
The digital world is public, and to live within these public spaces is to give up your rights to exist privately within those bounds

Humans are obsessed with ways in which we can cultivate an experience, and ways in which we remember it
That’s why we have museums, archives, galleries, etc

Contextual Practice