{"id":2943,"date":"2021-09-23T20:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/privacy-is-at-stake-what-would-you-do-if-you-controlled-your-own-data\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:54:34","slug":"privacy-is-at-stake-what-would-you-do-if-you-controlled-your-own-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/privacy-is-at-stake-what-would-you-do-if-you-controlled-your-own-data\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Privacy is at stake\u2019: what would you do if you controlled your own data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an ambitious new installation, artist Refik Anadol used a 17,000 square-foot gallery to mount an immersive exhibit asking questions about online privacy<\/p>\n<p>The trick of Refik Anadol\u2019s Machine Hallucinations, a three-day public art installation at The Shed in New York City, is to transform the processing of data into surreal hypnosis. The immersive audiovisual exhibit towers over a cavernous 17,000 sq ft gallery in Hudson Yards, an outer ring of screens features a shimmering and chameleonic display of what looks like pixelated sand. But each square is a narrative of data: a familiar image \u2013 tree, building, lamppost, over 130m publicly available images of New York City searched and collected by Anadol and his team\u2019s algorithms \u2013 morphed into a single-colored square and then silenced by a single question: what would you do if you owned your data?<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2021\/may\/18\/some-people-feel-threatened-face-to-face-with-ai-da-the-robot-artist\"> \u2018Some people feel threatened\u2019: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/sep\/23\/refik-anadol-machine-hallucinations-installation-new-york\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/01a5b6bf2224b0a60f8b9e6967d334d889408578\/0_139_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b885ea94e6e8e78f22955d495703a97f\" title=\"\u2018Privacy is at stake\u2019: what would you do if you controlled your own data?\" \/>In an ambitious new installation, artist Refik Anadol used a 17,000 square-foot gallery to mount an immersive exhibit asking questions about online privacy<br \/>\nThe trick of Refik Anadol\u2019s Machine Hallucinations, a three-day public art installation at The Shed in New York City, is to transform the processing of data into surreal hypnosis. The immersive audiovisual exhibit towers over a cavernous 17,000 sq ft gallery in Hudson Yards, an outer ring of screens features a shimmering and chameleonic display of what looks like pixelated sand. But each square is a narrative of data: a familiar image \u2013 tree, building, lamppost, over 130m publicly available images of New York City searched and collected by Anadol and his team\u2019s algorithms \u2013 morphed into a single-colored square and then silenced by a single question: what would you do if you owned your data?<br \/>\n Related:  \u2018Some people feel threatened\u2019: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ambitious new installation, artist Refik Anadol used a 17,000 square-foot gallery to mount an immersive exhibit asking questions about online privacy The trick of Refik Anadol\u2019s Machine Hallucinations, a three-day public art installation at The Shed in New York City, is to transform the processing of data into surreal hypnosis. The immersive audiovisual &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/privacy-is-at-stake-what-would-you-do-if-you-controlled-your-own-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Privacy is at stake\u2019: what would you do if you controlled your own data?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}