2020/10/29

Do Interactive Video Mirrors and Face Filters Normalize Surveillance Capitalism?

“It feels so utopian to think about a face filter that doesn’t capture data, an interactive mirror that doesn’t use DARPA-funded body tracking, with no governmental or corporate uses. But I have to believe that we could have that.”
– Software artist Everest Pipkin, in conversation with Golan Levin, Alan Warburton, Marius Watz and others, on whether popular media art and entertainment tropes normalize the instruments of carceral surveillance capitalism
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