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Giving up Your Data

Our reality is blurred + distributed. Our social relations are ephemeral + transitory. Our access to information is omnipresent + global. We are documentarians of our lives, we have all become autobiographers in our own personal database narrative… In the 21st century, we are all essentially authors of personal database narratives, expanding each and every moment, to be uploaded, broadcast, shared, distributed, and archived via the network… In the construction of personal narrative, it is far more interesting to give up our data, as a super-participant, then to let it fly through the ether… The systems of eavesdropping are so ubiquitous, so pervasive, so invasive in our everyday lives that we may as well just agree to give up our data and go quietly into that good night…

  • The Challenge to Scale Up for TRUMPological Times (4/15/2019)
  • The Dilemma of Art Making for Super-Participatory Phone Addiction (4/4/2019)
  • The Broadcast Never Stops (12/26/2018)
  • Selfie Buddha (5/28/2018)
  • The Existential Paradox of Giving up Control (1/21/2018)
  • We are Active Participants in the Videosphere (11/4/2017)
  • Meme Survival (5/25/2017)
  • President TRUMP: Only in the Post Reality (11/9/2016)
  • TRUMP Bunker Control (10/28/2016)
  • The Image of Terror (7/15/2016)
  • My Algorithmic Self (10/28/2015)
  • The Social Memoir (10/10/2015)
  • The Art of Self-Surveillance (9/30/2015)
  • Painting with Data (11/2/2014)
  • The Theater of Learning in the Third Space (9/13/2014)
  • By Everyone, for no one, Everyday (4/29/2014)
  • The Collective Body (4/5/2014)
  • Giving up your Data (3/13/2014)
  • Opening up the Great Firewall of China (4/24/2013)
  • Always Seeing, Always Watching (8/27/2012)
  • Truthiness (1/24/2006)

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