Explorations, Speculations, Processes, Bodies, Sounds
Our graduate symposium @parsons_dt is starting at 11:30am Eastern. Register here. (It’s online so I don’t know why @TheNewSchool has a waitlist set up for it.) event.newschool.edu/dt2022d#echoes22
Jiyoon Moon ’22 shows her web project that challenges the narrative of country music as a white art form parsons.edu/dt-2022/redefi…
Wesley Chau ’22 screens Eating My Data which deliciously explores DNA data storage technology, family history, food culture, and rice noodles. parsons.edu/dt-2022/eating…
Excited for Salil Parekh’s Planetary Bureau whom I taught in the fall “what if the earth isn’t ours to decenter the human” parsons.edu/dt-2022/the-pl…
Ardak Mukanova ’22 presents Glyphs of Another World a project aims to build a digital myth inspired by the history of nomadic shamanism and ancient petroglyphs parsons.edu/dt-2022/glyphs…
More Ardak Mukanova ’22 Glyphs of Another World highlights from @parsons_dt symposium today #echoes22
Trailer for Ardak Mukanova’s Glyphs of Another World pulls this incredible MFA Design & Technology world building project together vimeo.com/660510026
Marina Zurkow: These three projects have all decentered the human in favor of another agency
(Ardak Mukanova ’22, Glyph 03, Glyphs of Another World, @parsons_dt thesis)
In “Love Letter from Earth to Neptune” Salil Parekh ’22 imagines the earth supports life for its own purpose: to construct a magnetic signature with which to send a love letter to another planet.
A discreet wearable helps a victim tally the times they are feeling gaslit by their abuser, @iraqinancyajram considers the perils of stalkerware in the context of abusive relationships parsons.edu/dt-2022/memory…#echoes22
Taylor Paydos ’22 explores consent and online bodies in a series of experimental websites that consider gestures of tracing bodies parsons.edu/dt-2022/traces/
Livia Foldes describes choice to avoid nudity to make sure there was no excuse to avoid discussion of sex work in internet studies because these folks who built the internet risk being erased because we don’t know how to talk about it appropriately. parsons.edu/dt-2022/sex-wo…
Follow @liviatronic and the decodingstigma.tech project for more on how not to ignore the sexworkers who built the internet. Listen to @jomc moderate a discussion on these three works on the zoom live now.
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Summary of class today. Supreme Court’s privacy was violated so we know it is about to abort a women’s right of privacy as we know and our lack of privacy means huge risks from data brokers profiting in adversarial forced birth states.
There was also a scheduled discussion of web3 but it boiled down to the slurp juice is racist and interest in NFT has dropped 80% since the start of semester.
More class discussion notes:
web1
-decentralized protocols
-solo experience
-experimental web
web2
-centralized platforms
-social experience
-app for that
1. Striking the balance between expression and intimidation applies to Musk’s intentions #onhere
2. In my view, Cambridge Analytica was an historically abusive violation of human rights that did not result in any meaningful remedies, so there is significant work to do in this area
Leaked doc is quite a read. It will take *years* of massive investment to fundamentally re-architect Facebook to become compliant. Consider incredible visualization of data entanglement to deduce that a Facebook user has moved from their hometown (a valuable advertising audience)
what does opting out even mean anymore? #DataRights
Sure would be nice if the USA had a national #DataRights act and muscular enforcement arm to get a handle on all the unbridled mass data abuse of cross-purposing and combining datasets
i fear that we basically need a constitutional amendment to reconcile the first and fourteenth with explicit and enforceable data subject rights
meanwhile the statehouses are devising their own patchwork (eg, today in Hartford) of subtle differences and definitions which is bad for data subjects, controllers, and processors alike but proves there is real voter appetite for a clamp-down and rights enablement claw-back
Since UK’s Channel4 is in the news, it’s worth revisiting its important international coverage such as when it received leak of the entire Cambridge Analytica Trump database from 2016 in lead-up to our 2020 election revealing a racist deterrence campaign. channel4.com/news/deterring…
Too few US outlets partnered with UK’s commercial public outlet soon-to-be-privatized-to-an-oligarch but Miami-Herald concluded that strategy to demobilize Black voters in Florida battleground was likely effective. GOP defended (CA/SCL’s) strategy/tactics. miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
I attribute C4 leak to CA/SCL because the data is a forensic match to documented structures and strategy/nomenclature match internal company documents published by former employee. However, C4 didn’t make the attribution which I think was serious error given available evidence.
Just finished this important history book that narrates the period of political tumult (2015-2020) where we became aware of digital threats to democracy in UK and beyond. We sought accountability and came so close but it was obstructed by the power of the accused in a cover-up.
To order a copy go to digitalgangstersbook.com and it’s entirely unsurprising that none of the big publishers would touch this book. I myself have been unsuccessful in finding a major publisher willing to chronicle the true story of this significant period from my vantage point.