On 03/09/13 12:30 PM, shardcore wrote: > > The act of viewing an artwork is an incredibly personal experience, > and feels very private. The piece tries to show that even this kind > of experience is observable and recordable.
The fact of the experience, rather than its content. Whatever experience we have in the gallery in front of the painting (however long we tingle...) the data point is that we are the kind of person who looks at paintings in galleries. Hopefully looking at paintings isn't an indicator of terrorist intent. It's here that state surveillance and Big Data overlap. We become managed objects with no interiority. What we are is what we do, or that part of it that is captured and compared to statistical templates for life events. > Trying to have a 'private moment' in a state of constant surveillance > begins to feel much more like the world of Winston Smith...> > shardcore The Internet is a series of ducts...? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/quotes?item=qt0223928 I do like the painting as painting, particularly the handling of Hague's hands. The magpies could also capture phone or Bluetooth ID's. I've just registered for a city-wide WiFi service that required my phone's MAC number to use. I will be tracked as I move around doing vaguely arty things in return for slow access to Reddit. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
