Data Privacy ProjectsVisualizing Data Rights and Digital Surveillance
A pair of graphic projection works visualizing data rights, digital surveillance, and the uneasy presence of smart devices inside private space.
Where I started
The project began with the idea of Big Brother from George Orwell's 1984, then connected that image of surveillance to contemporary data monopolies and smart device ecosystems.
As daily life becomes digital information, it becomes difficult to know who can access personal data, when they access it, and for what purpose.
Designing the experience
Created Data Rights Projection as a graphic projection action inside a real smart device retail environment, using the store context to question how consumer technology frames data collection.
Built Digital Panopticon as a spatial projection work that makes smart device use feel watched, turning the private room into a visualization of invisible data surveillance.
Used projected graphics, spatial placement, and documentation video to translate abstract data systems into a bodily and environmental experience.
Learnings & reflection
Projection can make invisible digital systems easier to feel because light, scale, and space turn data surveillance into a physical atmosphere.
A familiar retail or bedroom environment can become critical when the graphics reveal the monitoring systems usually hidden behind smart-device convenience.