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Healthy Data Starts Here

Dana Elkis, Matthew Ross

we frequently take the time to use hand sanitzers to clean our hands, with our intervention we allow people to take the time to easily clean the data from their phones.

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Description

The aim of our project is to allow people to take control of their browser hygiene.

Our installation takes the form of a very common object: the free-standing Purell hand sanitizer.

We are augmenting a sanitizer so that the user is able to place a cellphone into a bay. Once the person places their hand under the sensor as they would normally do to clean their hands, a small robotic arm is activated and goes through the steps to phone browser history and session cookies.

Classes

Designing for Live Performance

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Pull The Plug

Matthew Ross

Pull the Plug is a outlet, that when the plug is pulled out of deletes all data the user has in Google Drive that hasn't been touched in over 18 months.

https://www.notion.so/Pulling-The-Plug-a91c8e0486aa4b99b2281b52966657e4

Description

Pull The Plug is an intervention to our collective habit of Data Hoarding. We are constantly generating and producing data about ourselves, and in a world where we increasingly out of control of what happens to that data, Pull the Plug allows a user to take back control. When users are introduced to the project, they are explained how it works, and if they accept the terms and are interested in “pulling the plug” on their data, they will sign a waiver consenting to the data deletion. After that point they will authenticate via Google and be able to personally pull the plug.

Classes

Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice