Miami Art Basel is here (!!!), and we’re excited to invite you to a couple of openings which will be exhibiting our latest project, A Charge for Privacy. Showing at both Graffiti Gone Global and Miami Independent Thinkers the piece is a reminder that nothing online is really “free.” We often forget (or might not even realize) that the online services we depend on for our most intimate and private exchanges (Facebook, Gmail, etc) are not exactly “free” nor are they exactly “private.” Every word you email to your family and every link you share with your friends is being archived, indexed and monetized, either in the form of targeted ads and/or other data-mining ventures. Sometimes these institutions encroach a bit too much on our most private data and when those that notice make a stink about it they get accused of being miscreants or at best get an, “Ooops, we’re sorry we invaded your privacy like that.”
Like it or not, this is the normative economic exchange for services online today, privacy is the currency of our digital ecology. A Charge For Privacy attempts to recreate this relationship by offering a utility, essentially an iPhone charging station, at the cost of privacy. Basel goers are welcome to charge their cell phones at the station, but not without agreeing to the Terms of Use (written all along the sides of the station). When an iPhone is plugged in the station proceeds to download all the photos stored on the phone. These terms make clear the exchange, ” […] You (b) grant Branger_Briz an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any and all of the images retrieved.” The second the photos are downloaded, the station immediately projects them as a public digital-graffiti installation.
And cause we know you’re wondering, yes, the two charging stations are for $ale and yes, the software + source code will be available for free online soon.
Miami’s Independent Thinkers
December 1st-4th, 2011
Thursday 4pm-8pm (VIP/PRESS),
Friday 6pm-3am,
Saturday 6pm-3am,
Sunday, 12pm-5pmThe Awarehouse
550 NW 29th Street
Wynwood FL 33127Graffiti Gone Global
December 1-4, 2011
Thursday, Dec. 1: 6:00PM – 9:00PM, Private Preview
Friday, Dec. 2: 11:00AM – 8:00PM
Saturday, Dec. 3: 11:00AM – 8:00PM
Sunday, Dec. 4: 11:00AM – 4:00PMThe Rotunda Space
3252 NE 1St Avenue, Suite 101
Midtown Miami, FL, 33137
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Blog post about our art installation's Art Basel debut as well as a little information on the concept. Enjoy.
