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Marc Horgues's avatar

Nice piece, as always! It makes me think about a few things: Dries Van Depoorter who did the Flemish scroller project, where he used public webcams of the belgium government to track when they use their phones during the debates, or the old project of CV Dazzle, coming back to life nowadays with the recent development of surveillance systems, or this sweater with a pattern creative an adversarial attack on facial recognition algorithms. It looks like artists might be the only answer right now to this massive adoption..

Ryslaine Moulay's avatar

Thanks Marc! Yes, CV Dazzle <3 I tested that on myself back then as you know ;) The adversarial sweater too super example wearing the attack on your body as contamination vector. Flemish Scrollers I didn’t know, thanks for sharing, so on point with what I was trying to capture here.

You’re right, art show us the way because it works on imagination. The challenge (and the limitation of this article I reckon) is they are intentional gestures not yet a change architecture. That’s the distinction Klaus Spiedel that works at the intersection of art & tech makes in a talk I think you’d find super interesting ;) I share it with you here before I’ll write about it more in details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dcunCscEw

Marc Horgues's avatar

Oh thanks, I will check! I was reading a book yesterday mentionning hauntology (speaking of aesthetics and vaporware, more precisely), funny convergence. https://audimat-editions.fr/catalogue/valentina-tanni-vibes-lore-core I strongly recommend it :)

Ryslaine Moulay's avatar

Yes! I've read it and shared it in the ChaosClub feed! Excellent book indeed ;)

Charles-Antoine Poirier's avatar

Great piece full of insights. Tx Ryslaine