BEAUTIFUL INTERFACES: KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

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BEAUTIFUL INTERFACES: THE PRIVACY PARADOX
Opening Thursday, April 14th at REVERSE 7pm -9pm
CAMPAIGN/ http://kck.st/1LCAnLb

¨Beautiful Interfaces: The privacy paradox¨ is a group show curated by Helena Acosta & Miyö Van Stenis. Featuring work by Jennifer Lyn Morone, Heather Dewey Hagborg, La Turbo Avedon, Annie Rose Malamet and Carla Gannis. The exhibited work will live on a wireless network accessible through routers at REVERSE. The routers have been hacked and are not actually connected to the Internet. Each router has a private network, which visitors must login to through their own devices – cell phones or iPads – to view the artwork. The exhibiting artists explore the dichotomy between the private and the public, creating a platform for distribution of data on an independent and anonymous network.

In the era of algorithm prediction all our online actions have a digital trace, which are used by companies and governments to predict our behaviors. The Internet’s purpose is to collect and quantify each action – becoming a medium for surveillance.

Everyday online social practices could look like harmless actions through a naive eye, but contain the potential for unexpected consequences when they are traced and connected to algorithmic surveillance systems. In less than five years facial recognition algorithms will be ubiquitous. Facebook has recently added facial recognition technology to their platform, becoming more deeply integrated into our smartphones. These new applications will facilitate easy reconstruction of any random encounter we have on the street that has been captured by a camera.

Our increased communication practices on the Social Web result in an increase of personal information online. The ‘Privacy Paradox’* suggests that despite Internet users’ concerns about privacy, their behaviors do not reflect those concerns. Even though we keep insisting on how much we care about our data, the statement ‘privacy is important!’ has become a void belief in our contemporary society.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO USE YOUR KIND DONATIONS?

We´d like to use your kind donations to pay the participating artists’ fees which works out to $900, the rest of the money will go to purchase the routers that need to be hack, each router cost 65$, we need a 6 which a total cost of $390 for the exhibition. Our fund goal is to recollect $1,290 Any additional funds raised will help offset the cost of materials and installation.