For my Cornel Box project, I did something in connection with one of my thesis idea. However, because my final project wasn’t very clear in my head at that time (and to be honest, not sure it is really the case right now) it may be very far from what I will end up working on for the rest of the IMA Low Res program. I wanted to do a Cornell box about the flow of data as in the recent years the companies want to collect everything from us to study and control us. I use pieces of colored paper that I sliced and glue to the box, use pictures of people that I cut out from magazine and on top I used a transparent paper on which I wrote series of numbers. Those number are only on the top of human because they generate data all the time with their smartphones, credit cards, and all the items they interact with.. I didn’t put the number on top of the scooter as it doesn’t have a gps and is only track because of the human riding it. The colored paper symbolize the flow of data and all the different kind of data that can be find, small chunck or huge data collection depending on the interaction but the absence of space in between is a reminder that the flow of data has  no end and is continous. I hide the people under number also because some theorisit/professors/influencers think that big data will be the end of free will, but also the end of gender or race, and everything that make us different from each others.

 

About my project, 3 peoples who work in my thesis field are: Robin Hewlett,  Ben Kinsley and Christian Moeller who all worked on surveillance art.