We are Watching You
Made by shangdal
Made by shangdal
Raise awareness and attention toward security and privacy of our information online. Art styles inspired by Ai Weiwei, 1984, and Duchamp's readymades.
Created: September 7th, 2016
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Raise awareness and attention toward security and privacy of our information online. Art styles inspired by Ai Weiwei, 1984, and Duchamp's readymades.
I really liked this project for multiple reasons. First, of course, is the content and the premise. It is a very thought provoking idea that you are exploring because it is true, this generation is different in that everyone is living a virtual life that is available openly. Second, your composition really drew my eye. The powerful imagery works well with your message, and I feel like this was overall a great project.
Hi! Your project is very impressive and thought-provoking. The feeling of being stared at really gives me a creepy sense of panic. I have been told how my private information becomes transparent online and how this could lead to security problems, but none of those warnings is as effective as your work. I really appreciate the way you appropriate familiar websites and social apps as they are without modifying them, since they closely relate the audience to their real life experience.
I also went to the Andy Warhol Museum, and saw Ai Weiwei’s work, Study of Perspective. So I strongly suggested that you increase the quantity of your screenshots, and if possible, create a VR version of your work and popularize it to more people.
Overall, amazing work! Thank you for effectively bringing up the security issue concerning the Internet again!
I think you express very well in this project what you want to say. The big, almost terrifying eyes made me really uncomfortable, so I felt like I'm experiencing the actual surveillance when I look at your artwork. I remember reading off some books saying that an artwork is successful when people are willing to spend three minutes just staring at it. I think you definitely did it! Well done! :D
Creativity: The idea to raise the public’s attention toward the internet privacy issue is excellent. And I think your work not only echoes with the title (eyes ---“watching”), but also expresses the message that you want to convey clearly by using the interfaces of those cloud storage platform, social networks and search engines.
Context &Execution: according to the documentation, you intended to create works that make viewers feel overpowered as those by Ai Weiwei. In my opinion, the “creepy and attentive” eyes from your friend do create a very provocative effect and the outcome is great!
Documentation: The documentation is overall very detailed and I appreciate your mentioning the Prisma App (I will probably give it a try for later projects).
This is an excellent work! Yet, the “eyes” currently used in your work seem to get scared by the viewers instead of watching them; so, maybe directly borrow the powerful eyes in the “Big Brother is Watching You” poster will lead to a better effect of serveillance.
I really liked the motivation behind this work, as it's definitely an important issue that we sometimes take for granted. Your choices for companies/websites were smart, but it's also important to note that our online activity is pretty much always being monitored. Our browsing history and shopping history dictate many of the advertisements we see, and it's alarming how much one can tell about a person by seeing their online activity.
I actually felt like the eyes you used were more playful than immediately threatening. I read it as more of a subtle warning - wide eyes curious and crazy, and definitely not completely trustworthy.
The final product turned out well, and I appreciate the documentation about which apps and programs you used to create it.
I also think it's understandable that the message of your work is very explicit, but there would be more opportunities to explore a more subtle approach to the same idea. Perhaps you could have an actual page from one of these screens open, with eyes lightly prying from the side or the back of the page.
I really like what you did for this work. I would be interested to hear why you choose the 4 sites that you choose, and why only 4. Perhaps you could make a large array of them like Ai Wei Wei did. There were two specific things I thought may be avenues for the work: making the eyes into Mark Zuckerberg's for the FaceBook one and other respective business owners for the other ones, and then judging how people react when using these logins in a real world setting. This would be an interesting act of hacktivism.
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