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Intelligibly express your ideas, thoughts and reflections in written English.
Articulate in writing a clear direction of your graduate project by being able to identify complex and coherent questions, concepts and appropriate forms.
Clearly structure and analyse an argument.
Use relevant source material and references.
Research texts and practices and reflect upon them analytically.
Synthesize different forms of knowledge in a coherent, imaginative and distinctive way.
Position one's own views within a broader context.
Recognize and perform the appropriate mode of address within a given context.
Engage in active dialogue about your written work with others.

Thesis format

A report on your research and practice.

An analytical essay exploring related artistic, theoretical, historical and critical issues and practices that inform your practice, without necessarily referring to your work directly.

The presentation of a text as a body of creative written work.

Thesis Outline (guideline)

Don't make it more than 1500 words

What is your question?

Break the proposed text down into parts. Think of the separate sections as "containers" (this may change as you progress with the text but try to make a clear plan with a word count in place)

Thesis Outline (consider the following before writing the outline. Include all these points in the intro to the outline)

Conceptual Outline (what is your question? Try to be a specific as possible. More specific than identifying a subject or general interest. It helps to ask: "what questions does the work I make generate?")

Why do you want to write this text?

Outline of Methodology (for example: " I would like to structure my thesis in relation to the a series of interviews I will conduct for my proposed project" OR "I will make a 'close reading' of three of my past projects"

Time line (how will you plan your time between now and April)

Introduction- overview

[500 words]

Chapter 1

[2000 words]

Chapter 2

[2000 words]

Chapter 3

[2000 words]

Conclusion [500 words]

=7000

Bibliography

Annotated bibliography (five texts max). Make a synopsis of 5 texts that will be central to your thesis.

Example of annotated bibliography

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Mia/Thesis

Example of a thesis outline:

#) https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/f/f3/Thesis_outline_final_Yuching.pdf #1) https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Zpalomagar/THESIS_OUTLINE/FIFTH_DRAFT

Referencing System

Harvard Referencing system PDF

Graduate proposal guidelines

What do you want to make?

My project is a data collection installation that monitors people's behaviors in public physical spaces while explicitly encouraging them to help the algorithm collect more information. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.

The way the device is designed doesn’t pretend to give any beneficial outcomes for the subject, but only makes visible the benefits that the machine is getting from collecting their data. Yet, the way the device visually or verbally presents this collected data is done in a grateful way, which might be stimulating for the subject. In that sense, the subject, despite knowing that their actions are done solely to satisfy the device, could become intrigued, involved, or even addicted by a mechanism that deliberately uses it as a commodity. In that way, I intend to trigger conflictual feelings in the visitor’s mind, situated between a state of awareness regarding the operating monetization of their physical behaviors, and a state of engagement/entertainment /stimulation regarding the interactive value of the installation.

My first desire is to make the mechanisms by which data collection is carried out, marketized and legitimized both understandable and accessible. The array of sensors, the Arduinos and the screen are the mainly technological components of this installation. Rather than using an already existing and complex tracking algorithm, the program is built from scratch, kept open source and limits itself to the conversion of a restricted range of physical actions into interactions. These include the detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection. Optionally they may also include the detection of the subject smartphone device or the log on a local Wi-Fi hotspot made by the subject.

In terms of mechanic, the algorithm creates feedback loops starting from:
_the subject behaviors being converted into information;
_the translation of this information into written/visual feedback;
_and the effects of this feedbacks on subject’s behavior; and so on.
By doing so, it tries to shape the visitors as free data providers inside their own physical environment, and stimulate their engagement by converting each piece of collected information into points/money, feeding a user score among a global ranking.

On the screen, displayed events can be:

_ “subject [] currently located at [ ]”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] entered the space”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] left the space”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] moving/not moving”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] distance to screen: [ ] cm”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] stayed at [ ] since [ ] seconds”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] device detected
[x points earned/given] (optional)
_ “subject logged onto local Wi-Fi
[x points earned/given] (optional)

Added to that comes the instructions and comments from the devices in reaction to the subject’s behaviors:

_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 25 % of all possible data to collect!”
[when 25-50-75-90-95-96-97-98-99% of the total array of events has been detected at least once]
_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot!”
[if the subject stands still in a specific location]
_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”
[unlocked at x points earned/given]
_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers!”
[if the subject stand still in a specific location]
_ “Leaving all ready? The monitor has yet to collect 304759 crucial pieces of information from you!”
[if the subject is a the edge of the detection range]
_ “You are only 93860 pieces of information away from being the top one data-giver!”
[unlocked at x points earned/given]
_ “Statistics show that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will benefit me on average 10 times more!”
[randomly appears]
_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”
[if the subject stands still for a long time any location]

Responding positively to the monitors instructions unlocks special achievement and extra points

—Accidental data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has passed the facility without deliberately wishing to interact with it] + [x points earned/given]
—Lazy data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been standing still for at least one minute] + [x points earned/given]
—Novice data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 5 missions from the monitor] + [x points earned/given]
—Hyperactive data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has never been standing still for 10 seconds within 2 minutes lapse time] + [x points earned/given]
—Expert data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 10 missions from the monitor within 10 minutes] + [x points earned/given]
—Master data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully logging on the local Wi-Fi hotspot] + [x points earned/given] (optional)

On the top left side of the screen, a user score displays the number of points generated by the collected pieces of information, and the unlocking of special achievements instructed by the monitor.

—Given information: 298 pieces
[displays number of collected events]
—Points: 312000
[conversion of collected events and achievement into points]

On the top right of the screen, the user is ranked among x number of previous visitors and the prestigious badge recently earned is displayed bellow

—subject global ranking: 3/42
[compares subject’s score to all final scores from previous subjects]
—subject status: expert data-giver
[display the most valuable reward unlocked by the subject]

When leaving the detection range, the subject gets a warning message and a countdown starts, and encouraging it to take the quick decision to come back

—“Are you sure you want to leave? You have 5-4-3-2-1-0 seconds to come back within the detection range”
[displayed as long as the subject remains completely undetected]

If the subject definitely stands out of the detection range for more than 5 seconds, the monitor will also address a thankful message and the amount of money gathered, achievements, ranking, complete list of collected information and a qr code will be printed as a receipt with the help of a thermal printer. The QR will be a link to my thesis.

—* “Thank you for helping today, don’t forget to take your receipt in order to collect and resume your achievements”
[displayed after 5 seconds being undetected]

In order to collect, read or/and use that piece of information, the visitor will inevitably have to come back within the range of detection, and intentionally, or not, reactivate the data tracking game. It is therefore impossible to leave the area of detection without leaving at least one piece of your own information printed in the space. Because of this, the physical space should gradually be invaded by tickets scattered on the floor. As in archaeology, these tickets give a precise trace of the behavior and actions of previous subjects for future subjects.

Why do you want to make it?

When browsing online or/and using connected devices in the physical world, even the most innocent action/information can be invisibly recorded, valued and translated into informational units, subsequently generating profit for monopolistic companies. While social platforms, brands, public institutions and governments explicitly promote the use of monitoring practices in order to better serve or protect us, we could also consider these techniques as implicitly political, playing around some dynamics of visibility and invisibility in order to assert new forms of power over targeted audiences.

In the last decade, a strong mistrust of new technologies has formed in the public opinion, fueled by events such as the revelations of Edward Snowden, the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the proliferation of fake news on social networks. We have also seen many artists take up the subject, sometimes with activist purposes. But even if a small number of citizens have begun to consider the social and political issues related to mass surveillance, and some individuals/groups/governments/associations have taken legal actions, surveillance capitalism still remains generally accepted, often because ignored or/and misunderstood.

Thanks to the huge profits generated by the data that we freely provide every day, big tech companies have been earning billions of dollars over the sale of our personal information. With that money, they could also further develop deep machine learning programs, powerful recommendation systems, and to broadly expand their range of services in order to track us in all circumstances and secure their monopolistic status. Even if we might consider this realm specific to the online world, we have seen a gradual involvement from the same companies to monitor the physical world and our human existences in a wide array of contexts. For example, with satellite and street photography (Google Earth, Street View), geo localization systems, simulated three-dimensional environments (augmented reality, virtual reality or metaverse) or extensions of our brains and bodies (vocal assistance and wearable devices). Ultimately, this reality has seen the emergence of not only a culture of surveillance but also of self-surveillance, as evidenced by the popularity of self-tracking and data sharing apps, which legitimize and encourage the datafication of the body for capitalistic purposes.

For the last 15 years, self-tracking tools have made their way to consumers. I believe that this trend is showing how ambiguous our relationship can be with tools that allow such practices. Through my work, I do not wish to position myself as a whistleblower, a teacher or activist. Indeed, to adopt such positions would be hypocritical, given my daily use of tools and platforms that resort to mass surveillance. Instead, I wish to propose an experience that highlights the contradictions in which you and I, internet users and human beings, can find ourselves. This contradiction is characterized by a paradox between our state of concern about the intrusive surveillance practices operated by the Web giants (and their effects on societies and humans) and a state of entertainment or even active engagement with the tools/platforms through which this surveillance is operated/allowed. By doing so, I want to ask how do these companies still manage to get our consent and what human biases do they exploit in order to do so. That’s is how my graduation work and my thesis will investigate the effect of gamification, gambling or reward systems as well as a the esthetization of data/self-data as means to hook our attention, create always more interactions and orientate our behaviors.

How to you plan to make it and on what timetable?

I am developing this project with Arduino Uno/Mega boards, an array of ultrasonic sensor, P5.js and screens.

How does it work?

The ultrasonic sensors can detect obstacles in a physical space and know the distance between the sensor and obstacle(s) by sending and receiving back an ultrasound. The Arduino Uno/Mega boards are microcontrollers which can receive this information, run it in a program in order to convert these values into a mm/cm/m but also map the space into an invisible grid. Ultimately, values collected on the Arduino’s serial monitor can be sent to P5.js through P5.serialcontrol. P5.js will then allow a greater freedom in way the information can be displayed on the screens.

Process:

1st semester: Building a monitoring device, converting human actions into events, and events into visual feedbacks

During the first semester, I am focused on exploring monitoring tools that can be used in the physical world, with a specific attention to ultrasonic sensors. Being new to Arduino programming, my way of working is to start from the smallest and most simple prototype and gradually increase its scale/technicality until reaching human/architectural scale. Prototypes are subject to testing, documentation and comments helping to define which direction to follow. The first semester also allows to experiment with different kind of screen (LCD screens, Touch screens, computer screens, TV screens) until finding the most adequate screen monitor(s) for the final installation. Before building the installation, the project is subject to several sketching and animated simulations in 3 dimensions, exploring different scenarios and narrations. At the end of the semester, the goal is to be able to convert a specific range of human actions into events and visual feedback creating a feedback loop from the human behaviors being converted into information; the translation of this information into written/visual feedbacks; and the effects of this feedbacks on human behavior; and so on.

2nd semester: Implementing gamification with the help of collaborative filtering, point system and ranking.

During the second semester, it is all about building and implementing a narration with the help of gaming mechanics that will encourage humans to feed the data gathering device with their own help. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.

To summarize the storyline, the subject being positioned in the detection zone finds herself/himself unwillingly embodied as the main actor of a data collection game. Her/His mere presence generates a number of points/dollars displayed on a screen, growing as she/he stays within the area. The goal is simple: to get a higher score/rank and unlock achievements by acting as recommended by a data-collector. This can be done by setting clear goals/rewards to the subject, and putting its own performance in comparison to all the previous visitors, giving unexpected messages/rewards, and give an aesthetic value to the displayed informations.

The mechanism is based on a sample of physical events that have been already explored in the first semester of prototyping (detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection). Every single detected event in this installation is stored in a data bank, and with the help of collaborative filtering, will allow to the display of custom recommendations such as:

_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 12 % of all possible data to collect”
_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot”
_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”
_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers”
_ “Leaving all-ready? The monitor has yet 304759 crucial pieces of information to collect from you”
_ “You are only 93860 actions away from being the top one data-giver”
_ “Statistics are showing that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will be 10 times more benefitting for me”
_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”

The guideline is set out here, but will be constantly updated with the help of experiments and the results observed during the various moments of interaction between the students and the algorithm. For this purpose, the installation under construction will be left active and autonomous in its place of conception (studio) and will allow anyone who deliberately wishes to interact with it to do so. Beyond the voluntary interactions, my interest is also to see what can be extracted from people simply passing in front of this installation. In addition to this, some of the mechanics of the installation will be further explored by collaborating with other students, and setting up more ephemeral and organized experiences with the participants. (ex: 15 February 2022 with Louisa)

This semester will also include the creation of a definite set of illustrations participating to engage the participants of the installation in a more emotional way, the illustrations will be made by an illustrator/designer, with whom I usually collaborate.

3rd semester: Build the final installation of final assessment and graduation show. Test runs, debug and final touchs.

During the third semester, the installation should be settled in the school, in the alumni area, next to XPUB studio for the final assessment, and ultimately settled again at WORM for the graduation show. I am interested in putting this installation into privileged spaces of human circulation, (such as hallways) that would more easily involve the detection of people, and highlight the intrusive aspect of such technologies. The narration, the mechanics, illustrations and graphic aspect should be finalized at the beginning of the 3rd semester, and subject to intense test runs during all that period until meeting the deadline.

Relation to larger context

As GAFAM companies are facing more and more legal issues, and held accountable in growing numbers of social and political issues around the world, the pandemic context has greatly contributed to make all of us more dependent than ever on the online services provided by these companies and to somehow force our consent. While two decades of counter-terrorism measures legitimized domestic and public surveillance techniques such as online and video monitoring, the current public health crisis made even more necessary the use of new technologies for regulating the access to public spaces and services, but also for socializing, working together, accessing to culture, etc. In a lot of countries, from a day to another, and for an undetermined time, it has become necessary to carry a smartphone (or a printed QR code) in order to get access transport, entertainment, cultural and catering services, but also in order to do simple things such as to have a look at the menu in a bar/restaurant or to make an order.. Thus, this project takes place in a context where techno-surveillance has definitely taken a determining place in the way we can access spaces and services related to the physical world.

Data Marketisation / Self Data: Quantified Self / Attention Economy / Public Health Surveillance / Cybernetics

Who can help you?

Prototyping
Manetta Berends
Michael Murtaugh

Writing
Luke Williams

Arduino
XPUB Arduino knowledge sharing group
Dennis de Bel
Aymeric Mansoux

Installation building
Wood station
Interaction station

Illustrations
Adrien Jacquemet (illustrator/graphic designer)

Installation location
Leslie Robbins

Extra help for game narratives
Rosa Zangenberg (writer/artist)

Relation to previous practice?

During my previous studies in graphic design, I started being engaged with the new media by making a small online reissue of Raymond Queneau’s book called Exercices de Style. In this issue called Incidences Médiatiques (2017), the user/reader was encouraged to explore the 99 different versions of a same story written by the author in a less-linear way. The idea was to consider each user graphic user interface as a unique reading context. It would determine which story could be read, depending on the device used by the reader, and the user could navigate through these stories by resizing the Web window, by changing browser or by using on a different device.

As part of my graduation project called Media Spaces (2019), I wanted to reflect on the status of networked writing and reading, by programming my thesis in the form of Web to Print website. Subsequently, this website became translated in the physical space as a printed book, and a series of installations displayed in an exhibition space that was following the online structure of my thesis (home page, index, part 1-2-3-4). In that way, I was interested to inviting to visitors to make a physical experience some aspects of the Web

As a first-year student of Experimental Publishing, I continued to work in that direction by eventually creating a meta-website called Tense (2020) willing to display the invisible html <meta> tags inside of an essay in order to affect our interpretation of the text. In 2021, I worked on a geocaching pinball game highlighting invisible Web event, and a Web oscillator, which amplitude and frequency range were directly related to the user’s cursor position and browser screen-size.

While it has always been clear to me that these works were motivated by the desire to define media as context, subject or/and content, the projects presented here have often made use of surveillance tools to detect and translate user information into feedbacks, participating in the construction of an individualized narrative or/and a unique viewing/listening context (interaction, screen size, browser, mouse position). The current work aims to take a critical look at the effect of these practices in the context of techno surveillance.

Similarly, projects such as Media Spaces have sought to explore the growing confusion between human and web user, physical and virtual space or online and offline spaces. This project will demonstrate that these growing confusions will eventually lead us to be tracked in all circumstances, even in our most innocuous daily human activities/actions.

Selected References

Works:

M. DARKE, fairlyintelligent.tech (2021) https://fairlyintelligent.tech/

« invites us to take on the role of an auditor, tasked with addressing the biases in a speculative AI »Alternatives to techno-surveillance

MANUEL BELTRAN, Data Production Labor (2018) https://v2.nl/archive/works/data-production-labour/

Expose humans as producers of useful intellectual labor that is benefiting to the tech giants and the use than can be made out of that labor.

TEGA BRAIN and SURYA MATTU, Unfit-bits (2016) http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits

Claims that that technological devices can be manipulated easily and hence, that they are fallible and subjective. They do this by simply placing a self-tracker (connected bracelet) in another context, such as on some other objects, in order to confuse these devices.

JACOB APPELBAUM, Autonomy Cube (2014), https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2916/trevor-paglen-and-jacob-appelbaumautonomy-cube/

Allows galleries to enjoy encrypted internet access and communications, through a Tor Network

STUDIO MONIKER, Clickclickclick.click (2016) https://clickclickclick.click/

You are rewarded for exploring all the interactive possibilities of your mouse, revealing how our online behaviors can be monitored and interpretated by machines.

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, Third Person (2006) https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php

Portrait of the viewer is drawn in real time by active words, which appear automatically to fill his or her silhouette https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php

JONAL LUND, What you see is what you get (2012) http://whatyouseeiswhatyouget.net/

«Every visitor to the website’s browser size, collected, and played back sequentially, ending with your own.»

USMAN HAQUE, Mischievous Museum (1997) https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/

Readings of the building and its contents are therefore always unique -- no two visitors share the same experience. https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/

Books & Articles:

SHOSHANA ZUBOFF, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2020)

Warns against this shift towards a «surveillance capitalism». Her thesis argues that, by appropriating our personal data, the digital giants are manipulating us and modifying our behavior, attacking our free will and threatening our freedoms and personal sovereignty.

EVGENY MOROZOV, Capitalism’s New Clothes (2019)

Extensive analysis and critic of Shoshana Zuboff research and publications.

BYRON REEVES AND CLIFFORD NASS, The Media Equation, How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (1996)

Precursor study of the relation between humans and machine, and how do you human relate to them.

OMAR KHOLEIF, Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the digital Age (2018)

Authors shares it’s own data as a journal in a part of the book, while on another part, question how the Internet has changed the way we perceive and relate, and interact with/to images.

KATRIN FRITSCH, Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication (2018)

Suggests that in response to our society of surveillance, artists can suggest activist response that doesn’t necessarily involve technological literacy, but instead can promote strong counter metaphors or/and counter use of these intrusive technologies.

Reading Sources

[ Bootleg]
Aaaarg
JSTOR

Themes (keywords)

Interfaced Reality
Museum Display vs Screen display
Exhibition space vs User interface
Web Elasticy vs Physical Rigidity
Museology / Curation / Gallery and Museum display
Technological context
Mediatization of Media / Meta Art

Draft Thesis

What do you want to make?

My project is a data collection installation that monitors people's behaviors in public physical spaces while explicitly encouraging them to help the algorithm collect more information. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.

The way the device is designed doesn’t pretend to give any beneficial outcomes for the subject, but only makes visible the benefits that the machine is getting from collecting their data. Yet, the way the device visually or verbally presents this collected data is done in a grateful way, which might be stimulating for the subject. In that sense, the subject, despite knowing that their actions are done solely to satisfy the device, could become intrigued, involved, or even addicted by a mechanism that deliberately uses it as a commodity. In that way, I intend to trigger conflictual feelings in the visitor’s mind, situated between a state of awareness regarding the operating monetization of their physical behaviors, and a state of engagement/entertainment /stimulation regarding the interactive value of the installation.

My first desire is to make the mechanisms by which data collection is carried out, marketized and legitimized both understandable and accessible. The array of sensors, the Arduinos and the screen are the mainly technological components of this installation. Rather than using an already existing and complex tracking algorithm, the program is built from scratch, kept open source and limits itself to the conversion of a restricted range of physical actions into interactions. These include the detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection. Optionally they may also include the detection of the subject smartphone device or the log on a local Wi-Fi hotspot made by the subject.

In terms of mechanic, the algorithm creates feedback loops starting from:
_the subject behaviors being converted into information;
_the translation of this information into written/visual feedback;
_and the effects of this feedbacks on subject’s behavior; and so on.
By doing so, it tries to shape the visitors as free data providers inside their own physical environment, and stimulate their engagement by converting each piece of collected information into points/money, feeding a user score among a global ranking.

On the screen, displayed events can be:

_ “subject [] currently located at [ ]”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] entered the space”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] left the space”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] moving/not moving”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] distance to screen: [ ] cm”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] stayed at [ ] since [ ] seconds”
[x points earned/given]
_ “subject [] device detected
[x points earned/given] (optional)
_ “subject logged onto local Wi-Fi
[x points earned/given] (optional)

Added to that comes the instructions and comments from the devices in reaction to the subject’s behaviors:

_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 25 % of all possible data to collect!”
[when 25-50-75-90-95-96-97-98-99% of the total array of events has been detected at least once]
_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot!”
[if the subject stands still in a specific location]
_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”
[unlocked at x points earned/given]
_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers!”
[if the subject stand still in a specific location]
_ “Leaving all ready? The monitor has yet to collect 304759 crucial pieces of information from you!”
[if the subject is a the edge of the detection range]
_ “You are only 93860 pieces of information away from being the top one data-giver!”
[unlocked at x points earned/given]
_ “Statistics show that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will benefit me on average 10 times more!”
[randomly appears]
_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”
[if the subject stands still for a long time any location]

Responding positively to the monitors instructions unlocks special achievement and extra points

—Accidental data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has passed the facility without deliberately wishing to interact with it] + [x points earned/given]
—Lazy data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been standing still for at least one minute] + [x points earned/given]
—Novice data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 5 missions from the monitor] + [x points earned/given]
—Hyperactive data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has never been standing still for 10 seconds within 2 minutes lapse time] + [x points earned/given]
—Expert data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 10 missions from the monitor within 10 minutes] + [x points earned/given]
—Master data-giver badge
[unlocked if the subject has been successfully logging on the local Wi-Fi hotspot] + [x points earned/given] (optional)

On the top left side of the screen, a user score displays the number of points generated by the collected pieces of information, and the unlocking of special achievements instructed by the monitor.

—Given information: 298 pieces
[displays number of collected events]
—Points: 312000
[conversion of collected events and achievement into points]

On the top right of the screen, the user is ranked among x number of previous visitors and the prestigious badge recently earned is displayed bellow

—subject global ranking: 3/42
[compares subject’s score to all final scores from previous subjects]
—subject status: expert data-giver
[display the most valuable reward unlocked by the subject]

When leaving the detection range, the subject gets a warning message and a countdown starts, and encouraging it to take the quick decision to come back

—“Are you sure you want to leave? You have 5-4-3-2-1-0 seconds to come back within the detection range”
[displayed as long as the subject remains completely undetected]

If the subject definitely stands out of the detection range for more than 5 seconds, the monitor will also address a thankful message and the amount of money gathered, achievements, ranking, complete list of collected information and a qr code will be printed as a receipt with the help of a thermal printer. The QR will be a link to my thesis.

—* “Thank you for helping today, don’t forget to take your receipt in order to collect and resume your achievements”
[displayed after 5 seconds being undetected]

In order to collect, read or/and use that piece of information, the visitor will inevitably have to come back within the range of detection, and intentionally, or not, reactivate the data tracking game. It is therefore impossible to leave the area of detection without leaving at least one piece of your own information printed in the space. Because of this, the physical space should gradually be invaded by tickets scattered on the floor. As in archaeology, these tickets give a precise trace of the behavior and actions of previous subjects for future subjects.

Why do you want to make it?

When browsing online or/and using connected devices in the physical world, even the most innocent action/information can be invisibly recorded, valued and translated into informational units, subsequently generating profit for monopolistic companies. While social platforms, brands, public institutions and governments explicitly promote the use of monitoring practices in order to better serve or protect us, we could also consider these techniques as implicitly political, playing around some dynamics of visibility and invisibility in order to assert new forms of power over targeted audiences.

In the last decade, a strong mistrust of new technologies has formed in the public opinion, fueled by events such as the revelations of Edward Snowden, the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the proliferation of fake news on social networks. We have also seen many artists take up the subject, sometimes with activist purposes. But even if a small number of citizens have begun to consider the social and political issues related to mass surveillance, and some individuals/groups/governments/associations have taken legal actions, surveillance capitalism still remains generally accepted, often because ignored or/and misunderstood.

Thanks to the huge profits generated by the data that we freely provide every day, big tech companies have been earning billions of dollars over the sale of our personal information. With that money, they could also further develop deep machine learning programs, powerful recommendation systems, and to broadly expand their range of services in order to track us in all circumstances and secure their monopolistic status. Even if we might consider this realm specific to the online world, we have seen a gradual involvement from the same companies to monitor the physical world and our human existences in a wide array of contexts. For example, with satellite and street photography (Google Earth, Street View), geo localization systems, simulated three-dimensional environments (augmented reality, virtual reality or metaverse) or extensions of our brains and bodies (vocal assistance and wearable devices). Ultimately, this reality has seen the emergence of not only a culture of surveillance but also of self-surveillance, as evidenced by the popularity of self-tracking and data sharing apps, which legitimize and encourage the datafication of the body for capitalistic purposes.

For the last 15 years, self-tracking tools have made their way to consumers. I believe that this trend is showing how ambiguous our relationship can be with tools that allow such practices. Through my work, I do not wish to position myself as a whistleblower, a teacher or activist. Indeed, to adopt such positions would be hypocritical, given my daily use of tools and platforms that resort to mass surveillance. Instead, I wish to propose an experience that highlights the contradictions in which you and I, internet users and human beings, can find ourselves. This contradiction is characterized by a paradox between our state of concern about the intrusive surveillance practices operated by the Web giants (and their effects on societies and humans) and a state of entertainment or even active engagement with the tools/platforms through which this surveillance is operated/allowed. By doing so, I want to ask how do these companies still manage to get our consent and what human biases do they exploit in order to do so. That’s is how my graduation work and my thesis will investigate the effect of gamification, gambling or reward systems as well as a the esthetization of data/self-data as means to hook our attention, create always more interactions and orientate our behaviors.

How to you plan to make it and on what timetable?

I am developing this project with Arduino Uno/Mega boards, an array of ultrasonic sensor, P5.js and screens.

How does it work?

The ultrasonic sensors can detect obstacles in a physical space and know the distance between the sensor and obstacle(s) by sending and receiving back an ultrasound. The Arduino Uno/Mega boards are microcontrollers which can receive this information, run it in a program in order to convert these values into a mm/cm/m but also map the space into an invisible grid. Ultimately, values collected on the Arduino’s serial monitor can be sent to P5.js through P5.serialcontrol. P5.js will then allow a greater freedom in way the information can be displayed on the screens.

Process:

1st semester: Building a monitoring device, converting human actions into events, and events into visual feedbacks

During the first semester, I am focused on exploring monitoring tools that can be used in the physical world, with a specific attention to ultrasonic sensors. Being new to Arduino programming, my way of working is to start from the smallest and most simple prototype and gradually increase its scale/technicality until reaching human/architectural scale. Prototypes are subject to testing, documentation and comments helping to define which direction to follow. The first semester also allows to experiment with different kind of screen (LCD screens, Touch screens, computer screens, TV screens) until finding the most adequate screen monitor(s) for the final installation. Before building the installation, the project is subject to several sketching and animated simulations in 3 dimensions, exploring different scenarios and narrations. At the end of the semester, the goal is to be able to convert a specific range of human actions into events and visual feedback creating a feedback loop from the human behaviors being converted into information; the translation of this information into written/visual feedbacks; and the effects of this feedbacks on human behavior; and so on.

2nd semester: Implementing gamification with the help of collaborative filtering, point system and ranking.

During the second semester, it is all about building and implementing a narration with the help of gaming mechanics that will encourage humans to feed the data gathering device with their own help. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.

To summarize the storyline, the subject being positioned in the detection zone finds herself/himself unwillingly embodied as the main actor of a data collection game. Her/His mere presence generates a number of points/dollars displayed on a screen, growing as she/he stays within the area. The goal is simple: to get a higher score/rank and unlock achievements by acting as recommended by a data-collector. This can be done by setting clear goals/rewards to the subject, and putting its own performance in comparison to all the previous visitors, giving unexpected messages/rewards, and give an aesthetic value to the displayed informations.

The mechanism is based on a sample of physical events that have been already explored in the first semester of prototyping (detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection). Every single detected event in this installation is stored in a data bank, and with the help of collaborative filtering, will allow to the display of custom recommendations such as:

_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 12 % of all possible data to collect”
_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot”
_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”
_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers”
_ “Leaving all-ready? The monitor has yet 304759 crucial pieces of information to collect from you”
_ “You are only 93860 actions away from being the top one data-giver”
_ “Statistics are showing that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will be 10 times more benefitting for me”
_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”

The guideline is set out here, but will be constantly updated with the help of experiments and the results observed during the various moments of interaction between the students and the algorithm. For this purpose, the installation under construction will be left active and autonomous in its place of conception (studio) and will allow anyone who deliberately wishes to interact with it to do so. Beyond the voluntary interactions, my interest is also to see what can be extracted from people simply passing in front of this installation. In addition to this, some of the mechanics of the installation will be further explored by collaborating with other students, and setting up more ephemeral and organized experiences with the participants. (ex: 15 February 2022 with Louisa)

This semester will also include the creation of a definite set of illustrations participating to engage the participants of the installation in a more emotional way, the illustrations will be made by an illustrator/designer, with whom I usually collaborate.

3rd semester: Build the final installation of final assessment and graduation show. Test runs, debug and final touchs.

During the third semester, the installation should be settled in the school, in the alumni area, next to XPUB studio for the final assessment, and ultimately settled again at WORM for the graduation show. I am interested in putting this installation into privileged spaces of human circulation, (such as hallways) that would more easily involve the detection of people, and highlight the intrusive aspect of such technologies. The narration, the mechanics, illustrations and graphic aspect should be finalized at the beginning of the 3rd semester, and subject to intense test runs during all that period until meeting the deadline.

Relation to larger context

As GAFAM companies are facing more and more legal issues, and held accountable in growing numbers of social and political issues around the world, the pandemic context has greatly contributed to make all of us more dependent than ever on the online services provided by these companies and to somehow force our consent. While two decades of counter-terrorism measures legitimized domestic and public surveillance techniques such as online and video monitoring, the current public health crisis made even more necessary the use of new technologies for regulating the access to public spaces and services, but also for socializing, working together, accessing to culture, etc. In a lot of countries, from a day to another, and for an undetermined time, it has become necessary to carry a smartphone (or a printed QR code) in order to get access transport, entertainment, cultural and catering services, but also in order to do simple things such as to have a look at the menu in a bar/restaurant or to make an order.. Thus, this project takes place in a context where techno-surveillance has definitely taken a determining place in the way we can access spaces and services related to the physical world.

Data Marketisation / Self Data: Quantified Self / Attention Economy / Public Health Surveillance / Cybernetics

Who can help you?

Prototyping
Manetta Berends
Michael Murtaugh

Writing
Luke Williams

Arduino
XPUB Arduino knowledge sharing group
Dennis de Bel
Aymeric Mansoux

Installation building
Wood station
Interaction station

Illustrations
Adrien Jacquemet (illustrator/graphic designer)

Installation location
Leslie Robbins

Extra help for game narratives
Rosa Zangenberg (writer/artist)

Relation to previous practice?

During my previous studies in graphic design, I started being engaged with the new media by making a small online reissue of Raymond Queneau’s book called Exercices de Style. In this issue called Incidences Médiatiques (2017), the user/reader was encouraged to explore the 99 different versions of a same story written by the author in a less-linear way. The idea was to consider each user graphic user interface as a unique reading context. It would determine which story could be read, depending on the device used by the reader, and the user could navigate through these stories by resizing the Web window, by changing browser or by using on a different device.

As part of my graduation project called Media Spaces (2019), I wanted to reflect on the status of networked writing and reading, by programming my thesis in the form of Web to Print website. Subsequently, this website became translated in the physical space as a printed book, and a series of installations displayed in an exhibition space that was following the online structure of my thesis (home page, index, part 1-2-3-4). In that way, I was interested to inviting to visitors to make a physical experience some aspects of the Web

As a first-year student of Experimental Publishing, I continued to work in that direction by eventually creating a meta-website called Tense (2020) willing to display the invisible html <meta> tags inside of an essay in order to affect our interpretation of the text. In 2021, I worked on a geocaching pinball game highlighting invisible Web event, and a Web oscillator, which amplitude and frequency range were directly related to the user’s cursor position and browser screen-size.

While it has always been clear to me that these works were motivated by the desire to define media as context, subject or/and content, the projects presented here have often made use of surveillance tools to detect and translate user information into feedbacks, participating in the construction of an individualized narrative or/and a unique viewing/listening context (interaction, screen size, browser, mouse position). The current work aims to take a critical look at the effect of these practices in the context of techno surveillance.

Similarly, projects such as Media Spaces have sought to explore the growing confusion between human and web user, physical and virtual space or online and offline spaces. This project will demonstrate that these growing confusions will eventually lead us to be tracked in all circumstances, even in our most innocuous daily human activities/actions.

Selected References

Works:

M. DARKE, fairlyintelligent.tech (2021) https://fairlyintelligent.tech/

« invites us to take on the role of an auditor, tasked with addressing the biases in a speculative AI »Alternatives to techno-surveillance

MANUEL BELTRAN, Data Production Labor (2018) https://v2.nl/archive/works/data-production-labour/

Expose humans as producers of useful intellectual labor that is benefiting to the tech giants and the use than can be made out of that labor.

TEGA BRAIN and SURYA MATTU, Unfit-bits (2016) http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits

Claims that that technological devices can be manipulated easily and hence, that they are fallible and subjective. They do this by simply placing a self-tracker (connected bracelet) in another context, such as on some other objects, in order to confuse these devices.

JACOB APPELBAUM, Autonomy Cube (2014), https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2916/trevor-paglen-and-jacob-appelbaumautonomy-cube/

Allows galleries to enjoy encrypted internet access and communications, through a Tor Network

STUDIO MONIKER, Clickclickclick.click (2016) https://clickclickclick.click/

You are rewarded for exploring all the interactive possibilities of your mouse, revealing how our online behaviors can be monitored and interpretated by machines.

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, Third Person (2006) https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php

Portrait of the viewer is drawn in real time by active words, which appear automatically to fill his or her silhouette https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php

JONAL LUND, What you see is what you get (2012) http://whatyouseeiswhatyouget.net/

«Every visitor to the website’s browser size, collected, and played back sequentially, ending with your own.»

USMAN HAQUE, Mischievous Museum (1997) https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/

Readings of the building and its contents are therefore always unique -- no two visitors share the same experience. https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/

Books & Articles:

SHOSHANA ZUBOFF, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2020)

Warns against this shift towards a «surveillance capitalism». Her thesis argues that, by appropriating our personal data, the digital giants are manipulating us and modifying our behavior, attacking our free will and threatening our freedoms and personal sovereignty.

EVGENY MOROZOV, Capitalism’s New Clothes (2019)

Extensive analysis and critic of Shoshana Zuboff research and publications.

BYRON REEVES AND CLIFFORD NASS, The Media Equation, How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (1996)

Precursor study of the relation between humans and machine, and how do you human relate to them.

OMAR KHOLEIF, Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the digital Age (2018)

Authors shares it’s own data as a journal in a part of the book, while on another part, question how the Internet has changed the way we perceive and relate, and interact with/to images.

KATRIN FRITSCH, Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication (2018)

Suggests that in response to our society of surveillance, artists can suggest activist response that doesn’t necessarily involve technological literacy, but instead can promote strong counter metaphors or/and counter use of these intrusive technologies.

What is my work, What do I want to tell, What is my position

Translated from discussion with Michael

People have now more concrete experiences of the digital/Web interface than the physical space. Museums, hotels, houses, cars interiors, restaurants are themselves becoming more and more comparable to digital interface where everything is optimized, and where our behaviours, actions and even inactions are being detected and converted into commands in order to offer a more customized (and profitable) experience to each of us. In that sense, we are getting closer from becoming users of our own interfaced physical reality. By creating a exhibition spaces explicitly inspired from a desktop Web interface, I wish to question what could be the future of exhibition space, what are the limits of this interfaced and individualized reality and how could it affect our own experience and understanding of art.

What could we learn from interface design? What could be the future of exhibition space?

"Bring attention to the systems underlying artistic productions" both on the Web and the physical world
"reversal of the desktop metaphor" (using the virtual as "concrete" to metaphorically understand a physical exhibition space), what will be the future of an exhibition space... (is already working exhibition spaces working with sensors) scary and fascinating at the same time...
"my embracing/use of sensors isn't about proposing these techniques as a solution / ideal / about control... interfaces requiring less and less from us but paradoxically extracting more and more from us"
every small unconsidered behaviour is being used (trying to used)...
there is unpredictable.... because of all the factors, want unexpected things to happen...
the reality of digital isn't all about precision and control, this notion of surprise is key for an experience.
Exploring the fullness of digital / programmed / computational media, including those "edge" cases / the "glitch" ... the surprise...
Examples from museums: (for instance Brussels has the MIM Museum Instrument Museum, sadly the old now retired interface was a system with headphones that were activated in the space, so as you approached vitrines with a violin you would here a performance of that instrument)...
How a mistake can create something else. / Bugs / Glitch Letting an accident/surprise/unexpect exist, exploring the fullness of digital programming
My position seems to fit with Researcher/Designer
Digital is not precise and omnipotent, it has so faults, flows and vulnerabilities.

To check:

Mindstorms Seymour Papert
Serendipity

Software Art

Software creation or use of software concepts for artworks representation. Commonly put the spectator in the role of a user.

Internet Art

Elements from the Internet bringed outside of the Internet and promoting the Internet as part of both virtual and physical realities.

John Ippolito

Post-Internet Art vs Internet 2.0

Post-Internet Art: Litteraly Art after the internet. Can consists of using online material for later use in offline works or can relate on the effect of the Internet in various aspects of the culture, aesthetic and society.

Olia Lialina

VS
Internet 2.0: Assuming that a world Internet doesn't exist anymore

Zach Blas

Net Art

Started in late 70's and nowadays associated with a outdated era of the Internet (1.0?)
Closely related to Network Art

Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, 1996

New Aesthetics

Confronting/merging virtual and physical, or humans and machine, etc

James Bridle

Funware

Gamification of non-game platforms in order to encourage some actions, behaviors, transactions with the help of various rewarding systems.

Connections to XPUB1

User viewing contexts (on the Web) from special issue 13

Description

Create motion from the diffraction of the user interface which offers flexible and almost infinite possible renders of a same Web page. The sensible variety of user viewing contexts tells about the placiticy of the user interface. This is the result from the wide range user devices, window or screen sizes, Web browsers, (as part of many other parameters). A first of movement capture and montage of the user interface placticity can be as part of the post-production of my interpretation of the esssay "Tense", part of the Special Issue 13.

Capturing and puting into motion the User interface placticity

Trying to play around with the Browser window resizing in order to create a playful animation decidaced be a thumbnail of the project. The two first screen capture will be the basis of the upcoming motion. I will first try to smooth the window movement and make the two screen capture fit togehter before synchronizing them and looping them.

TENSE Motion Rectangle Format Loop in the loop

TENSE MOTION Initial Screen Capture 1

Notes: Add Web Oscillator

Prototyping

Arduino

Early sketch that is about comparing and questioning our Spectator experience of a physical exhibition space (where everything is often fixed and institutionalized), with our User experience of a Web space (where everything is way more elastic, unpredictable and obsolete). I’m interested about how slighly different can be rendered a same Web page to all different users depending on technological contexts (device nature, browser, IP address, screen size, zoom level, default settings, updates, luminosity, add-ons, restrictions, etc). I would like to try to create a physical exhibition space/installation that would be inspired from the technology of a Web user window interface in order then to play with exhbitions parameters such as the distance between the spectator and the artwork, the circulation in space, the luminosity/lighting of the artwork(s), the sound/acoustics, etc etc etc.

Distance between wall behind the spectator and the artwork has to be translated into a variable that can affect sound or light in the room. Wall position could be connected to the dimensions of a user interface in real time with arduino and a motor.

Create a connected telemeter with an Arduino, a ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04) and a ESP8266 module connected to Internet

It seems possible to create your own telemeter with a arduino by implementing an ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04
By doing so, the values capted by the sensor could potentaialy be directly translated as a variable.
Then with the ESP8266 module, the values could be translated on a database on the internet. Then I could enter that website and see the values from anywhere and use them to control light, sound or anything else I wish.

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Arduino101#Anatomy_of_a_sketch

Tool/Material list:

Telemeter (user to get the distance between the device and an obstacle)
Rails
Handles
Wheels
Movable light wall
Fixed walls
USB Cable
Connexion cables
Arduino
ESP8266

Connexion cables (Arduino)

USB Cable

Arduino

HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor

Plywood x 3

Handle

ESP8266

Rail

About the ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04)

Characteristics

Here are a few of it's technical characteristic of the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor :

Power supply: 5v.
Consumption in use: 15 mA.
Distance range: 2 cm to 5 m.
Resolution or accuracy: 3 mm.
Measuring angle: < 15°.

Ref More infos about the sensor here and here

Where to buy the ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04)

Prototype 1 : Arduino + Resistor

During a workshop, we started with a very basic fake arduino kit, a led, a motor, and a sensor. After making a few connections, we got to understand a bit how it works.

   #include <Servo.h>
   Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
   int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position
   int ldr = 0;    // vairable to store light intensity

   void setup() {
   Serial.begin(9600); // begin serial communication, NOTE:set the same baudrate in the serial monitor/plotter
   myservo.attach(D7);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
   }

   void loop() {
   //lets put the LDR value in a variable we can reuse
   ldr = analogRead(A0);
   
   //the value of the LDR is between 400-900 at the moment 
   //the servo can only go from 0-180
   //so we need to translate 400-900 to 0-180
   //also the LDR value might change depending on the light of day
   //so we need to 'contrain' the value to a certain range
   ldr = constrain(ldr, 400, 900);

   //now we can translate
   ldr = map(ldr, 400, 900, 0, 180);

   //lets print the LDR value to serial monitor to see if we did a good job
   Serial.println(ldr); // read voltage on analog pin 0, print the value to serial monitor

   //now we can move the sensor accoring to the light/our hand!
   myservo.write(ldr);      // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
   delay(15);    
   }

How to make a engine work
credits: Dennis de Bel

How to make a sensor work
Credits: Dennis de Bel

How to make both sensor and engine works together
Credits: Dennis de Bel

Sensortest during workshop

Split Screen Arduino + Sensor + Serial Plotter + Responsive Space

Trying here to show the simutaneous responses between the sensor, the values, and the simualtion.

Splitscreen Arduino + Sensor + Serial Plotter + Responsive Space

Prototype 2: Arduino + Ultrasonic sensor

For this very simple first sketch and for later, I will include newPing library that improves a lot the ultrasonic sensor capacities.

Sketch 1: Arduino Uno + Sensor

 #include <NewPing.h> 
 int echoPin = 10;
 int trigPin = 9;
 
 NewPing MySensor(trigPin, echoPin); //This defines a new variable
 
 void setup() {
   // put your setup code here, to run once:
   Serial.begin(9600);
 }
 
 void loop() {
   // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  int duration = MySensor.ping_median(); 
  int distance = MySensor.convert_in(duration);
 
  Serial.print(distance);
  Serial.println("cm");
  delay(250);
 }

Prototype 3: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD (+ LED)

All together from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwB57UilhQ

Sketch 2: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD

Sketch 3: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD + LED

  #include <LiquidCrystal.h>
  
  LiquidCrystal lcd(10,9,5,4,3,2);
 
 const int trigPin = 11;
 const int echoPin = 12;
 
 long duration;
 int distance;
 
 void setup() {
   // put your setup code here, to run once:
     analogWrite(6,100);
     lcd.begin(16,2);
     pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); // Sets the trigPin as an Output
 pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); // Sets the echoPin as an Input
 Serial.begin(9600); // Starts the serial communication
 
     
 }
 
 void loop() {
 long duration, distance;
   digitalWrite(trigPin,HIGH);
   delayMicroseconds(1000);
   digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
   duration=pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
   distance =(duration/2)/29.1;
   Serial.print(distance);
   Serial.println("CM");
   delay(10);
 // Prints the distance on the Serial Monitor
 Serial.print("Distance: ");
 Serial.println(distance);
 
     lcd.clear();
     lcd.setCursor(0,0);
     lcd.print("Distance = ");
     lcd.setCursor(11,0);
     lcd.print(distance);
     lcd.setCursor(14,0);
     lcd.print("CM");
     
     delay(500);
     
 }

From this sketch, I start considering that the distance value could be directly sent to a computer and render a Web page depending on its value.
Note: It looks like this sensor max range is 119cm, which is almost 4 times less than the 4 meters max range stated in component description.

Prototype 4: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD + 2 LED = Physical vs Digital Range detector

Using in-between values to activate the green LED
Once again, puting together the simulation and the device in use.

Sensor Test VS Elastic Space

 #include <LiquidCrystal.h>
 #include <LcdBarGraph.h> 
 #include <NewPing.h> 
 
   LiquidCrystal lcd(10,9,5,4,3,2);
 
 const int LED1 = 13; 
 const int LED2 = 8;   
 const int trigPin = 11;
 const int echoPin = 12;
 
 long duration; //travel time
 int distance;
 int screensize;
 
 void setup() {
   // put your setup code here, to run once:
     analogWrite(6,100);
     lcd.begin(16,2);
     pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); // Sets the trigPin as an Output
     pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); // Sets the echoPin as an Input
     Serial.begin(9600); // Starts the serial communication
 
     pinMode(LED1, OUTPUT);
     pinMode(LED2, OUTPUT);
 }
 
 void loop() {
 long duration, distance;
   digitalWrite(trigPin,HIGH);
   delayMicroseconds(1000);
   digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
   duration=pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
   distance =(duration/2)/29.1; //convert to centimers
   screensize = distance*85;
   Serial.print(distance);
   Serial.println("CM");
   Serial.print(screensize);
   delay(10);
 
   if ((distance >= 15) && (distance<=20))
   {
      digitalWrite(LED2, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(LED1, LOW);
   }
   else
   {
      digitalWrite(LED1, HIGH);
      digitalWrite(LED2, LOW);    
   }
 
 // Prints the distance on the Serial Monitor
 Serial.print("Distance: ");
 Serial.println(distance);
 
     lcd.clear();
     lcd.setCursor(0,0);
     lcd.print("ROOM");
     lcd.setCursor(6,0);
     lcd.print(distance);
     lcd.setCursor(9,0);
     lcd.print("cm");    
     lcd.setCursor(0,2);
     lcd.print("SCR");
     lcd.setCursor(6,2);
     lcd.print(screensize);
     lcd.setCursor(9,2);
     lcd.print("x1080px");
         
     delay(500);
     
 }

I brought a second arduino, 2 long breadboards, black cables, another LCD screen, and remade the setup on this format. For some reasons the new LCD screen is not going in the breadboard, and I need more male to female cables in order to connect it correctly. With this longer breadboard, I want to extend the range value system, and make it visible with leds and sounds.

Upgrade

How to get more digital pins [not working]

How to use analog pins as digital pins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAbGLBWk5s
Up to 60 more pins with Arduino Mega https://www.tinytronics.nl/shop/en/development-boards/microcontroller-boards/arduino-compatible/mega-2560-r3-with-usb-cable

I tried 4 different tutorials but still didn't find a way to make the thing work, that's very weird, so I will just give up and take a arduino mega =*(

ArduinoExtraDigitalPins

Prototype 5: Arduino Uno + 3 Sensor + 3 LEDS

With a larger breadboard, connecting 3 sensors all together. Next step will be to define different ranges of inbetween values for each sensor in order to make a grid. To accomplish this grid I will make a second row of sensors such as this, in order to get x and y values in space

Prototype 6: Arduino Uno + 3 Sensor + 12 LEDS

With 3 sensors, added on 2 long breadboads, and with a different set of range values, we can start mapping a space.

SensorMediaQueries

Physical Space Mapping

Prototype 7: Arduino Uno + 12 LEDS + 3 Sensor + Buzzer + Potentiometer + LCD

For this prototype, I implement a buzzer that will emit a specific sound depending on the distance of the obstacle detected by the sensor. I also puted back a LCD displaying the 3 sensors values. The screen luminosity can be changed via a potentiometer.
Ressources:

ArduinoMegaSensorBuzzerLCD

Prototype 8: Arduino Uno + 12 LEDS + 3 Sensor on mini breadboards + Buzzer + Potentiometer + LCD

Same code, but new setup detaching each sensor from each others and allowing to place them anywhere.

Prototype 9: Arduino Uno + 21 LEDS + 7 Sensor + Buzzer + Potentiometer + LCD

Sensor Wall 01

PhysicalMapping2

Sketch 10: Arduino Mega + 7 Sensors + LCD + 3 buzzers + P5.js

P5.js and ultrasonic sensor

The goal here was to create a first communication between the physical setup and a P5.js web page

Sketch 11: Arduino Mega + UltraSonicSensor + LCD TouchScreen

LCD Arduino Variable poster

 #include <TFT_HX8357.h>
 
 TFT_HX8357 tft = TFT_HX8357(); 
 
 
 unsigned long targetTime = 0;
 byte red = 0;
 byte green = 0;
 byte blue = 255;
 byte state = 0;
 unsigned int colour = blue << 255;
 
 #define TFT_GREY 0x5AEB // New colour
 
 //Ultrasonic Sensor
  int VCC = 13;
  int trigPin = 11;
  int echoPin = 12;
 
 long duration, distance, UltraSensor; 
 char data;
 String SerialData="";
 
 void setup(void) {
   tft.init();
   tft.setRotation(2);
   tft.fillScreen(TFT_BLACK);
   targetTime = millis() + 100;
 
   Serial.begin (9600); 
   //define pin modes
   pinMode(VCC, OUTPUT);   
   pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT); //sets the trigPin as an Output
   pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);  //sets the echoPin as an Input
   
   digitalWrite(VCC, HIGH);  // +5V - Pin 13 as VCC
 }
 void rainbow_fill()
 {
   
   for (int i = 45; i < 421; i++) {
     tft.drawFastHLine(1, i, tft.width(), colour); // in this example tft.width() returns the pixel width of the display
     switch (state) {
       case 0:
         blue ++;
         if (blue == 0) {
           blue = 1;
           state = 1;
         }
         break;
       case 1:
         green--;
         if (green == 255) {
           green = 254;
           state = 2;
         }
         break;
       case 2:
         blue ++;
         if (blue == 0) {
           blue = 1;
           state = 3;
         }
       case 5:
         green --;
         if (blue == 255) {
           blue = 254;
           state = 0;
         }
         break;
     }
     colour = red << 0 | green << 255 | blue << 0;
   }
 }
 
 void loop() {
   SonarSensor(trigPin,echoPin);              
   UltraSensor = distance; 
 
    Serial.print("A: ");
    Serial.print(UltraSensor);
    Serial.println(" cm");
    tft.setCursor(0, 0, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("AQUARIUM 2.0");
    tft.println("29.11.2021"); 
 
    tft.setCursor(215, 0, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println(" by XPUB");
 
    tft.setCursor(215, 24, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);   
    tft.println(" students");
 
    tft.setCursor(0, 426, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("We are");
 
    tft.setCursor(0, 454, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("Open!");
    
    tft.setCursor(135, 426, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("you are");
    
    tft.setCursor(222, 426, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE, TFT_BLACK);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println(UltraSensor); 
 
    tft.setCursor(284, 426, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("cm");
    
    tft.setCursor(135, 454, 2);
    tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1.8);
    tft.setTextFont(4);
    tft.println("away from event"); 
 
    if (targetTime < millis()) {
     targetTime = millis() + 10;
     rainbow_fill(); // Fill the screen with rainbow colours
    }
   
     
   // Fill screen with random colour so we can see the effect of printing with and without 
   // a background colour defined
   //tft.fillScreen(255,255,255);
   
   // Set "cursor" at top left corner of display (0,0) and select font 2
   // (cursor will move to next line automatically during printing with 'tft.println'
   //  or stay on the line is there is room for the text with tft.print)
 
 
   // A SENSOR ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
     // A1———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
       if(UltraSensor <=30)// if distance is lGss than 10 Cm turn thG LED ON
       {
       tft.setCursor(0, 200, 2);
       tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1);
       tft.setTextFont(4);
       //tft.println("Message1");
       delay(10);  
       }
       else                // else turn thG LED OFF
       {
       }
       // A2———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
       if((UltraSensor >=31) && (UltraSensor <=60))
       {
       tft.setCursor(0, 200, 2);
       tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1);
       tft.setTextFont(4);
       //tft.println("Message2");
       delay(10); 
       }
       else                // else turn thG LED OFF
       {
       }
       // A3———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
       if((UltraSensor >=61) && (UltraSensor <=300))
       {
       tft.setCursor(0, 200, 2);
       tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1);
       tft.setTextFont(4);
       //tft.println("Message3");
       delay(10); 
       }
       else               
       {
       }
        if(UltraSensor >=301)
       {
       tft.setCursor(0, 200, 2);
       tft.setTextColor(TFT_WHITE);  tft.setTextSize(1);
       tft.setTextFont(4);
       //tft.println("Message4");
       delay(10);
       }
       else               
       {
       }
 }
 
  void SonarSensor(int trigPinSensor,int echoPinSensor)//it takes the trigPIN and the echoPIN 
     {
       //generate the ultrasonic wave
     digitalWrite(trigPinSensor, LOW);// put trigpin LOW 
     delayMicroseconds(2);// wait 2 microseconds
     digitalWrite(trigPinSensor, HIGH);// switch trigpin HIGH
     delayMicroseconds(10); // wait 10 microseconds
     digitalWrite(trigPinSensor, LOW);// turn it LOW again
     
     //read the distance
     duration = pulseIn(echoPinSensor, HIGH);//pulseIn funtion will return the time on how much the configured pin remain the level HIGH or LOW; in this case it will return how much time echoPinSensor stay HIGH
     distance= (duration/2) / 29.1; // A1 we have to divide the duration by two  
     }

About the ESP8266 module

The ESP8266 is a microcontroller IC with Wi-Fi connection, it will allow us to connect the arduino to the internet so we can get the values obtained from sensors received directly on a self-hosted webpage. From this same web page, it would also be possible to control LESs, motors, LCD screens, etc.

Ressources about ESP8266 module

Kindly fowarded by Lousia:

Which ESP8266 to buy

Things to try

Connect multiple arduinos (if necessary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU6jIoQ6M_E
Connect lamp to arduino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yk4Tyc44g

Prototyping Ressources

Do it Yourself Ressources (from Dennis de Bel)

Instructables is a huge source of (written) tutorials on all kinds of topics. Keep in mind it's more quantity than quality. Interesting for you might be 'diy sensors'
Hand Made Electronic (Music): Great resource for cheap, diy electronics project focussing on

sound/music (pdf findable online)

Make: Electronics: Amazing, complete guide to everything 'electronics' (Warning, HUGE pdf)
Thingiverse: The place to find 3d printable mechanics, enclosures, parts etc.

Electronic Shops (physical)

Radio Twenthe (Den Haag)
Radio Piet (Arnhem)

LIST OF SHOPS (also more physical NL ones)

https://www.circuitsonline.net/shops

Electronic Webshops (NL)

https://www.tinytronics.nl/ (semi physical, pickup only in Eindhoven)
http://www.newtone-online.nl/catalog/
https://www.brigatti.nl/

Electronic Webshops (Rest)

Conrad (Germany, expensive)
TME (Poland, cheap, ridiculously difficult website)
Segor (Germany)
Mouser (Germany)
Reichelt (Germany)
Farnell (Germany/UK)
Digi-key (USA, fast but expensive shipping + tax)
Tayda (Thailand/USA, 2-3 weeks shipping)
A liexpress (China, 2-3 weeks shipping)

PCB making EU (Expensive)

Eurocircuits (Germany)
Aisler (Germany, 1 week from design upload to in your hands, very high quality)
Leiton (Germany)

PCB making China (Cheap but import tax)

JLCPCB (1 week from design upload to in your hands, low quality solder mask)
PCBWAY (1 week from design upload to in your hands)
ALLPCB (1 week from design upload to in your hands)

Arduino and Sensors

Sensor only Kit

45-in-1 (aliexpress) Example sensor you will find in such a kit documented here

Arduino Starter Projects

https://www.makerspaces.com/simple-arduino-projects-beginners/

or slightly more complex:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-great-arduino-projects-for-beginners/

or in videos:

youtube playlist

or just many different ideas:

http://playground.arduino.cc/Projects/Ideas

or - of course - on Instructables if you want to have a complete course:

https://www.instructables.com/class/Arduino-Class/

or this course:

https://arduino.tkkrlab.space/

ARDUINO + PROCESSING (visualizing sensors)

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/projects/tags/processing

MISCELANIOUS KEYWORDS and LINKS

citizen science, for example: https://www.meetjestad.net/
https://forensic-architecture.org/

Installation

Creating an elastic exhibition space

Responsive Space Installation Simulation

Responsive Space (detail)

Moving Wall Structure Shema 1

Ressources

Movable walls build out for Art Museum of West Virginia University link
Gallery Wall System (GWS) link
CASE-REAL installs movable walls inside a basement art gallery in tokyo link

Venues

Venue 1: Aquarium

Description

AQUARIUM 1.0

A Small Ecosystem for Living Thoughts

Monday, 11th October
19:30 – 21:30
Leeszaal Rotterdam West
Rijnhoutplein 3, 3014 TZ Rotterdam

with Clara Gradel, Floor van Meeuwen, Martin Foucaut, Camilo Garcia, Federico Poni, Nami Kim, Euna Lee, Kendal Beynon, Jacopo Lega and Louisa Teichmann

It’s oh-fish-ial! Students of the Experimental Publishing Master invite you to dive into their small ecosystem of living thoughts. Join us for an evening of conversation, discussion and new view points. If you look closely, you might even see some early thesis ideas hatching. Let's leave no rock unturned.

Observation questionnaire

This exercice is a very small, humble and almost 100% analog exercice questioning representation in two small steps.

1st step

photo of a brick

1st step: I give a sheet of paper to people during the venue and ask them to answer a series of questions concerning the object (brick) that is being displayed in the middle of the room on a podium. It is specified to them that they can be anywhere while observing this brick and in any position. Here are the quesitons:

Please write down your first name:

Describe your position (sitting/standing/other):

Describe your location in the room:

Describe what you are seeing while looking at the screen:

Describe how you feel mentaly/emotionaly:

2nd step

photo of brick displayed inside a computer screen

2nd step: I take the answers, wait a round, and then give back a new sheet of paper to the same people with the exact same questions concerning the respresentation of the object (brick) that is being displayed in the middle of the room on a computer screen on the same podium.

Answer Samples

1.0 Object on a podium

1.1 Sitting on corner stairs —> Want to see it from different angles —> Feeling trapped, frustrated
1.2 Sitting on stairs —> a rock looking dead —> Feeling sad
1.3 Sitting on the left close from columns —> rational observation —> Nostalgic memories because participated to the creation of the object as it looks right now
1.4 Sitting in front of object —> Calm and slighly confused
1.5 Sitting on the floor next to stairs in between the side and the middle —> Looking at the object from the bottom —> Feeling a bit confused and inspired

2.0 Photo of the object displayed on a computer screen placed on a podium

2.1 Sitting on a chair seeing the brick from a bird perspective -> Feeling more control of the situation
2.2 Sitting very close from the brick —> Seeing a flat and almost abstract picture —> Feeling drawn to the picture, aesthetically pleasing, feeling less sad about the object
2.3 Sitting under a table very far way —> Looking abstract but identifiable —> Exited about the unusual and childish observation position
2.4 Sitting on stairs —> and seeing the brick in 2D —> Feeling fine
2.5 Sittiing on the stairs —> Seeing a side of the screen with a top view photo of the object —> Feeling confortable

Answers1_RepresentationQuestionnaire

Answers2_RepresentationQuestionnaire

Answers3_RepresentationQuestionnaire

Answers4_RepresentationQuestionnaire

Answers5_RepresentationQuestionnaire

Venues

Venue 2: Aquarium 2.0

Description

Date 29th Nov — 4th Dec 2021
Time 15h — 18h
29th Nov — 4th Dec 2021 (all day)
Location: De Buitenboel, Rosier Faassenstraat 22 3025 GN Rotterdam, NL

AQUARIUM 2.0

An ongoing window exhibition with Clara Gradel, Floor van Meeuwen, Martin Foucaut, Camilo Garcia, Federico Poni, Nami Kim, Euna Lee, Kendal Beynon, Jacopo Lega and Louisa Teichmann

Tap upon the glass and peer into the research projects we are currently working on. From Monday 29th of November until Saturday 4th of December we put ourselves on display in the window of De Buitenboel as an entry point into our think tank. Navigating between a range of technologies, such as wireless radio waves, virtual realities, sensors, ecological and diffractive forms of publishing, web design frameworks, language games, and an ultra-territorial residency; we invite you to gaze inside the tank and float with us. Welcome back to the ecosystem of living thoughts.

Aquarium LCD Portal (29 Nov – 4th Dec)

This interactive micro-installation composed of a LCD screen and sensor(s) invites users/visitors to change the color of the screen and displayed messages by getting more or less close from the window. Link

ScreenPortalFront

ScreenPortalback

LCDScreenTest

Readings (new)(english)(with notes in english)

About Institutional Critique

To read

→ 1. Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique Doc
→ 2. From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique - Andrea Fraser Doc
→ 3. Institutional critique, an anthology of artists writings - Alexander Alberro Doc

About Techno-Solutionism

To read

→ 1. The Folly of Technological Solutionism: An Interview with Evgeny Morozov - Natasha Dow Schüll

About Meta

To read

→ 1. The meta as an aesthetic category Bruno Trentini (2014)
→ 2. File:RMZ ARTIST WRITING(2).pdf The eye tells the story by Rosa Maria Zangenberg (2017)
→ 3. Leonardo Da Vinci - Paragone by Louise Farago

About exhibition space

To read

→ 2. Kluitenberg, Eric, ed. Book of imaginary media. Excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2006.
→ 3. The wall and the canvas: Lissitzky’s spatial experiments and the White Cube
→ 6. Decorative Arts: Billy Al Bengston and Frank Gehry discuss their 1968 collaboration at LACMA by Aram Moshayedi
→ 8. File:Resonance and Wonder STEPHEN GREENBLATT.pdf Resonance and Wonder - STEPHEN GREENBLATT
→ 9. A Canon of Exhibitions - Bruce Altshuler File:A Canon of Exhibitions - Bruce Altshuler.pdf
→ 10. Documenta - File:A BRIEF HISTORY OF AN EXHIBITION AND ITS CONTEXTS - Klaus Siebenhaar.pdf A BRIEF HISTORY OF AN EXHIBITION AND ITS CONTEXTS - Klaus Siebenhaar
→ 11. Pallasmaa - The Eyes of the Skin File:Pallasmaa - The Eyes of the Skin.pdf
→ 12. Venturi - Learning from Las Vegas File:Venturi - Learning from Las Vegas.pdf
→ 13. Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives - JULIA NOORDEGRAAF, COSETTA G. SABA; BARBARA LE MAÎTRE; VINZENZ HEDIGER Copyright: 2013 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Series: Framing Film

Reading/Notes

→ 1. After the White Cube. ref 2015 NOTES INSIDE

How and why White Cube rised and became democratized
White Cube // Consumerism = Art Consumerism?
Exhibition Space > Artworks
Experience of interpretation = Entertainment of Art?
Museum vs Mausoleum

→ 2. Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 – 2000 ref NOTES INSIDE

Art vs 50's consumerism / Choregraphy of desire?
Check theorists Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt

→ 3. Colour Critique A Symposium on Colour as an Agent for Taste, Experience and Value in the Exhibition Space NOTES INSIDE
May 24, 2019 - Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum
→ 4. Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise NOTES INSIDE

Role of colours in the viewer's experience of an exhibition
Institutional Critique
Institutionalised Space / White cube

→ 5. Mental Spaces - Joost Rekveld/Michael van Hoogenhuyze NOTES INSIDE
(course for Artscience 2007/8) doc

About perspective
About Space time
About Cyber Space

→ 6. THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: MUSEUM - Displays and the Creation of Knowledge Doc NOTES INSIDE
Stephanie Moser SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY (MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY) 2010

Architecture (Neoclassical buildings)
Big vs Small exhibition Space
Lined up objects vs non systematic display
Architecture/Design
Gallery interiors (Ceiling/Interior Design elements/Furniture
Colors
Individual lighting of objects vs global lighting
Dark vs Bright lighting
Chronological vs Thematic arrangement
Academic vs Journalistic writting
Busy layout vs Minimal Layout
Exibition seen vs other exhibitions
Themed/idea-oriented vs objectled exhibitions
Didactic vs discovery exhibition
Contextual, immersive, or atmospheric exhibitions
Audience vs Reception

→ 7. Fantasies of the Library - Etienne Turpin (ed.), Anne-Sophie Springer (ed.) Ref; Editeur: The MIT Press; Date de publication: 1 sept. 2018

How the a physical organization influence of a bookshelf can influence it's digital version
The book as a minitaure gallery/exhibition space
The library as a public place of reading
Library vs Exhibition Space = Use vs Display
Book-theme exhibitions

About User vs Visitor, or user in exhibition space

Designing the user experience in exhibition spaces - Elisa Rubegni, Caporali Maurizio, Antonio Rizzo, Erik Grönvall

What are the GUI intentions
What is the WIMP interaction model
What are the post-Wimp models
About Memex

About User Interface

Readings/Notes

→ 1. bootleg Alexander R. Galloway - The Interface Effect 1st ed. Malden, USA: Polity Press.

The interface paradox
The less they do, the more they achieve and the more they become invisible & unconsidered
The interface as a "significant surface"
The interface as a gateway
The interface as "the place where information moves from one entity to another"
The interface as the media itself
The interface as "agitation or generative friction between different formats"
The interface as "an area" that "separates and mixes the two worlds that meet together there"

→ 2. bootleg Nick Srnicek - Navigating Neoliberalism: Political Aesthetics in an Age of Crisis NOTES INSIDE
Editeur: medium.com, Date de publication: 20 oct. 2016

From an aesthetic of sublime into an aesthetics of the interface
Cognitive mapping

→ 3. bootleg Program Or Be Programmed - Ten Commands For A Digital Age Douglas Rushkoff NOTES INSIDE
Douglas Rushkoff, A., 2010. Program Or Be Programmed - Ten Commands For A Digital Age Douglas Rushkoff. 1st ed. Minneapolis, USA: OR Books.

"Instead of learning about our technology, we opt for a world in which our technology learns about us."
Programmed by the interfaces
From a transparent to an opaque medium

→ 4. bootleg The Best Interface Is No Interface - Golden Krishna NOTES INSIDE
Krishna, G., 2015. The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology (Voices That Matter). 1st ed. unknown: New Riders Publishing.

"Screen Obsessed Approach to Design"
UI vs UX

→ 5. Plasticity of User Interfaces:A Revised Reference Framework NOTES INSIDE
Gaëlle Calvary, Joëlle Coutaz, David Thevenin Quentin Limbourg, Nathalie Souchon, Laurent Bouillon, Murielle Florins, Jean Vanderdonckt

About the term 'Placticity'

→ 6. Interface Critique- Beyond UX - FLORIAN HADLER, ALICE SOINÉ; DANIEL IRRGANG DOC Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné, Daniel Irrgang

The interface as an "historical artifact", a "space of power"
The interface as human -machine boudary
What is interface critique
Interface in computer science
The screen for Lev Manovitch

About User Condition

Readings

→ 1. The User Condition 04: A Mobile First World - Silvio Lorusso Doc

Most web user are smarphone users
How "mobile's first" affect global web design
How "mobile's first" affect the way we use computers

Readings (old)(mostly french)(with notes in french)

Books (old)

→ 1. L'art comme expérience — John Dewey (french) ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
         publisher: Gallimard (1934)
→ 2. L'œuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique — Walter Benjamin (french
         publisher: Alia (1939)
→ 3. La Galaxie Gutemberg — Marshall McLuhan (french)
         publisher: University of Toronto Press (1962)
→ 3. Pour comprendre les médias — Marshall McLuhan (french)
         publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (1964)
→ 4. Dispositif — Jean-Louis Baudry (french)
         publisher: Raymond Bellour, Thierry Kuntzel et Christian Metz (1975)
→ 5. L’Originalité de l’avant-garde et autres mythes modernistes — Rosalind Krauss (french) ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
         publisher: Macula (1993)
→ 6. L'art de l'observateur: vision et modernité au XIXe siècle — Jonathan Crary (french)
         publisher: Jacqueline Chambon (Editions) (1994)
→ 7. Inside the White Cube, the Ideology of Gallery Space — Brian O'Doherty (english) ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
         publisher: Les presses du réel (2008)
→ 8. Préçis de sémiotique générale — Jean-Marie Klinkenbeg (french) ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
         publisher: Point (2000)
→ 9. Langage des nouveaux médias — Lev Manovitch (french) ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
         publisher: Presses du Réel (2001)
→ 10. L'empire cybernétique — Cécile Lafontaine (french)
         publisher: Seuil (2004)
→ 11. La relation comme forme — Jean Louis Boissier (french)
         publisher: Genève, MAMCO(2004)
→ 12. Le Net Art au musée — Anne Laforêt (french)
         publisher: Questions Théoriques(2011)
→ 13. Narrative comprehension and Film communication — Edward Branigan (english)
         publisher: Routledge (2013)
→ 14. Statement and counter statement / Notes on experimental Jetset — Experimental Jetset (english)
          publisher: Roma (2015)
→ 15. Post Digital Print — Alessandro Ludovico (french) ≈
          publisher: B42 (2016)
→ 16. L'écran comme mobile — Jean Louis Boissier (french)
          publisher: Presses du réel (2016)
→ 17. Design tactile — Josh Clark (french)
          publisher: Eyrolles (2016)
→ 18. Espaces de l'œuvre, espaces de l'exposition — Pamela Bianchi (french)
          publisher: Eyrolles (2016)
→ 19. Imprimer le monde (french)
          publisher: Éditions HYX et les Éditions du Centre Pompidou (2017)
→ 20. Version 0 - Notes sur le livre numérique (french)
          publisher: ECRIDIL (2018)

Articles (old)

→ 1. Frederick Kiesler — artiste- architecte ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
        (communiqué de presse) Centre pompidou; source : centrepompidou.fr (1996)
→ 2. Oublier l'exposition ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
        Artpress special numéro 21 (2000)
→ 3. Composer avec l’imprévisible: Le questionnaire sur les médias variables ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
        Jon Ippolito; source : variablemedia.net/pdf/Permanence (2003)
→ 4. Esthétique du numérique : rupture et continuité
        Fred Forest; source : archives.icom.museum (2010)
→ 5. La narration interactive ⚠️(yet to be filled)⚠️
        Dragana Trgovčević source : ensci.com/file_intranet/mastere_ctc/etude_Dragana_Trgovcevic.pdf (2011)
→ 6. Des dispositifs aux appareils - L'Espacement d'un calcul
        Anthony Masure source : anthonymasure.com (2013)
→ 7. Le musée n'est pas un dispositif - Jean-Louis Déotte p.9 - 22 (2011)
→ 8. Apogée et périgée du White Cube Loosli, Alban

References

More references to check (from THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: MUSEUM - Displays and the Creation of Knowledge)

Alexander, Edward P.

1997 The Museum in America. Walnut Creek,
CA: AltaMira Press.

Ambrose, Timoth¡ and Crispin Paine

2006 Museum Basics. 2nd edition. London:
Routledge.

Ames, Kenneth L., Barbard Franco, and L. Thomas Frye

1997 Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits. Walnut Creek,
CA: AltaMira Press.

Ames, Michael

1992 Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums. 2nd edition.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Barringer, Tim, and Tom Fþn, eds.

1997 Colonialism and the Object: Empire,
Material Culture and the Museum. London:
Routledge.

Belcher, Michael

199I Exhibitions in Museums.
Leicester: Leicester Museum Studies.

Bennett, Tony

1995 The Birth of the Museum.
London: Routledge.

Black, Graham

2005 The Engaging Museum. London: Routledge.

Bouquet, Mar¡ed.

2001 Academic Anthropology and the Museum.
New York Berghahn Books.

Caulton, Tim

1998 Hands on Exhibitions: Managing Interactive Museums and Science Centres.
London: Routledge.

Coombes, Annie

1994 Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England.
New Haven: Yale University Press.

Dean, David

1997 Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice.
London: Routledge.

Dubin, Steven

1999 Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. New York New York University Press.

2006 Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa.

New York Palgrave Macmillan.

Falk, John H., and Lynn Dierking

2000 Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning.
Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Fienup-Riordan, Anne

2005 Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum
Berlin: Fieldwork Tumed on Its Head. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Hein, George

1998 Learning in the Museum. London: Routledge.

Henderson, Am¡ and Adrienne Kaeppler

1997 Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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 =<p style="font-family:helvetica">Draft Thesis</p>=
+===What do you want to make?===
-==<p style="font-family:helvetica">Introduction</p>==
+My project is a data collection installation that monitors people's behaviors in public physical spaces while explicitly encouraging them to help the algorithm collect more information. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.
+<br><br>
+The way the device is designed doesn’t pretend to give any beneficial outcomes for the subject, but only makes visible the benefits that the machine is getting from collecting their data. Yet, the way the device visually or verbally presents this collected data is done in a grateful way, which might be stimulating for the subject. In that sense, the subject, despite knowing that their actions are done solely to satisfy the device, could become intrigued, involved, or even addicted by a mechanism that deliberately uses it as a commodity. In that way, I intend to trigger conflictual feelings in the visitor’s mind, situated between a state of awareness regarding the operating monetization of their physical behaviors, and a state of engagement/entertainment /stimulation regarding the interactive value of the installation.
+<br><br>
+My first desire is to make the mechanisms by which data collection is carried out, marketized and legitimized both understandable and accessible. The array of sensors, the Arduinos and the screen are the mainly technological components of this installation. Rather than using an already existing and complex tracking algorithm, the program is built from scratch, kept open source and limits itself to the conversion of a restricted range of physical actions into interactions. These include the detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection. Optionally they may also include the detection of the subject smartphone device or the log on a local Wi-Fi hotspot made by the subject.
+<br><br>
+In terms of mechanic, the algorithm creates feedback loops starting from: <br>
+_the subject behaviors being converted into information; <br>
+_the translation of this information into written/visual feedback; <br>
+_and the effects of this feedbacks on subject’s behavior; and so on. <br>
+By doing so, it tries to shape the visitors as free data providers inside their own physical environment, and stimulate their engagement by converting each piece of collected information into points/money, feeding a user score among a global ranking.
+<br><br>
+On the screen, displayed events can be:
-With the growing presence of digital tools in all aspects of our lives, people may now have more concrete experiences of the digital/Web interfaces than the physical space. The distinctions between the physical and virtual worlds are being blurred, as they gradually tend to affect & imitate each other, create interdependencies, and translate our behaviors into informational units (data).  Public spaces, institutions and governments are gradually embracing these technologies and explicitly promoting them as ways to offer us more efficient; easy of use; safer; customizable services.  However, we could also see these technologies as implicit political tools, playing around dynamics of visibility and invisibility in order to assert power and influence over publics and populations.
+_ “subject [] currently located at [ ]” <br>
-In a context where our physical reality is turning into a cybernetic reality, my aim is to observe and speculate on how mediating technologies could affect our modes of representation inside the exhibition spaces, as much as ask how could they redefine the agencies, behaviors and circulations of its visitors.
+[x points earned/given]<br>
-Through digital and analogical comparisons, we will first try to find out what are the status of visitors inside of these spaces (what is a user or a visitor), what do they have to agree on (terms, conditions, agreements vs Rules, safety, regulations), what is expected from them, how some behaviors and circulations are being encouraged or required, while some others are being minimized or prohibited.
+_ “subject [] entered the space” <br>
-In a second phase, we will go into a study of these spaces themselves, by first contextualizing the exhibition space and the web/digital interfaces in a historical framework, then consider how a set of spatial, technological and political factors defines a context in itself. In order to do so, we will identify what are the elements defining, communicating or giving structure to the contents; in which kind architecture or system are they existing or being displayed and how does it affect their sustainability or the way they can be perceived.
+[x points earned/given]<br>
-Thirdly, we will speculate and make the experience of possible implementations of cybernetics in the exhibition space, by formulating and producing various combinations of concepts belonging to both the physical exhibition space and the virtual/digital interface.
+_ “subject [] left the space”<br>
-In complement to the writing of this thesis, an exhibition space will be conceived, inviting the readers to make an experience of the above mentioned speculations . Among them, we will for example explore and experience the conceptual notions of « architectural devices »; « physical events », « programmed physical space » or « exhibition user».
+[x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “subject [] moving/not moving”<br>
+[x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “subject [] distance to screen: [ ] cm” <br>
+[x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “subject [] stayed at [ ] since [ ] seconds” <br>
+[x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “subject [] device detected <br>
+[x points earned/given] (optional)<br>
+_ “subject logged onto local Wi-Fi<br>
+[x points earned/given] (optional)<br>
+<br>
+Added to that comes the instructions and comments from the devices in reaction to the subject’s behaviors:<br>
+<br>
+_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 25 % of all possible data to collect!” <br>
+[when 25-50-75-90-95-96-97-98-99% of the total array of events has been detected at least once]<br>
+_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot!”<br>
+[if the subject stands still in a specific location]<br>
+_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”<br>
+[unlocked at x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers!”<br>
+[if the subject stand still in a specific location]<br>
+_ “Leaving all ready? The monitor has yet to collect 304759 crucial pieces of information from you!”<br>
+[if the subject is a the edge of the detection range]<br>
+_ “You are only 93860 pieces of information away from being the top one data-giver!”<br>
+[unlocked at x points earned/given]<br>
+_ “Statistics show that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will benefit me on average 10 times more!”<br>
+[randomly appears]<br>
+_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”<br>
+[if the subject stands still for a long time any location]<br>
+<br>
+Responding positively to the monitors instructions unlocks special achievement and extra points<br>
+<br>
+—Accidental data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has passed the facility without deliberately wishing to interact with it] + [x points earned/given]<br>
+—Lazy data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has been standing still for at least one minute] + [x points earned/given]<br>
+—Novice data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 5 missions from the monitor] + [x points earned/given]<br>
+—Hyperactive data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has never been standing still for 10 seconds within 2 minutes lapse time] + [x points earned/given]<br>
+—Expert data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has been successfully completing 10 missions from the monitor within 10 minutes] + [x points earned/given]<br>
+—Master data-giver badge <br>
+[unlocked if the subject has been successfully logging on the local Wi-Fi hotspot] + [x points earned/given] (optional)<br>
+<br>
+On the top left side of the screen, a user score displays the number of points generated by the collected pieces of information, and the unlocking of special achievements instructed by the monitor.<br>
+<br>
+—Given information: 298 pieces <br>
+[displays number of collected events]<br>
+—Points: 312000 <br>
+[conversion of collected events and achievement into points]<br>
+<br>
+On the top right of the screen, the user is ranked among x number of previous visitors and the prestigious badge recently earned is displayed bellow<br>
+<br>
+—subject global ranking: 3/42 <br>
+[compares subject’s score to all final scores from previous subjects]<br>
+—subject status:  expert data-giver<br>
+[display the most valuable reward unlocked by the subject]<br>
+<br>
+When leaving the detection range, the subject gets a warning message and a countdown starts, and encouraging it to take the quick decision to come back<br>
+<br>
+—“Are you sure you want to leave? You have 5-4-3-2-1-0 seconds to come back within the detection range”<br>
+[displayed as long as the subject remains completely undetected]<br>
+<br>
+If the subject definitely stands out of the detection range for more than 5 seconds, the monitor will also address a thankful message and the amount of money gathered, achievements, ranking, complete list of collected information and a qr code will be printed as a receipt with the help of a thermal printer. The QR will be a link to my thesis.<br>
+<br>
+—* “Thank you for helping today, don’t forget to take your receipt in order to collect and resume your achievements”<br>
+[displayed after 5 seconds being undetected]<br>
+<br>
+In order to collect, read or/and use that piece of information, the visitor will inevitably have to come back within the range of detection, and intentionally, or not, reactivate the data tracking game. It is therefore impossible to leave the area of detection without leaving at least one piece of your own information printed in the space. Because of this, the physical space should gradually be invaded by tickets scattered on the floor. As in archaeology, these tickets give a precise trace of the behavior and actions of previous subjects for future subjects. <br>
-==<p style="font-family:helvetica">I. Agencies and factors within the spaces of representation</p>==
+===Why do you want to make it?===
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">1. Terms of use and access of virtual and physical public spaces</p>===
+When browsing online or/and using connected devices in the physical world, even the most innocent action/information can be invisibly recorded, valued and translated into informational units, subsequently generating profit for monopolistic companies. While social platforms, brands, public institutions and governments explicitly promote the use of monitoring practices in order to better serve or protect us, we could also consider these techniques as implicitly political, playing around some dynamics of visibility and invisibility in order to assert new forms of power over targeted audiences.
+<br><br>
+In the last decade, a strong mistrust of new technologies has formed in the public opinion, fueled by events such as the revelations of Edward Snowden, the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the proliferation of fake news on social networks. We have also seen many artists take up the subject, sometimes with activist purposes. But even if a small number of citizens have begun to consider the social and political issues related to mass surveillance, and some individuals/groups/governments/associations have taken legal actions, surveillance capitalism still remains generally accepted, often because ignored or/and misunderstood.
+<br><br>
+Thanks to the huge profits generated by the data that we freely provide every day, big tech companies have been earning billions of dollars over the sale of our personal information. With that money, they could also further develop deep machine learning programs, powerful recommendation systems, and to broadly expand their range of services in order to track us in all circumstances and secure their monopolistic status. Even if we might consider this realm specific to the online world, we have seen a gradual involvement from the same companies to monitor the physical world and our human existences in a wide array of contexts. For example, with satellite and street photography (Google Earth, Street View), geo localization systems, simulated three-dimensional environments (augmented reality, virtual reality or metaverse) or extensions of our brains and bodies (vocal assistance and wearable devices). Ultimately, this reality has seen the emergence of not only a culture of surveillance but also of self-surveillance, as evidenced by the popularity of self-tracking and data sharing apps, which legitimize and encourage the datafication of the body for capitalistic purposes.
+<br><br>
+For the last 15 years, self-tracking tools have made their way to consumers. I believe that this trend is showing how ambiguous our relationship can be with tools that allow such practices. Through my work, I do not wish to position myself as a whistleblower, a teacher or activist. Indeed, to adopt such positions would be hypocritical, given my daily use of tools and platforms that resort to mass surveillance. Instead, I wish to propose an experience that highlights the contradictions in which you and I, internet users and human beings, can find ourselves. This contradiction is characterized by a paradox between our state of concern about the intrusive surveillance practices operated by the Web giants (and their effects on societies and humans) and a state of entertainment or even active engagement with the tools/platforms through which this surveillance is operated/allowed. By doing so, I want to ask how do these companies still manage to get our consent and what human biases do they exploit in order to do so. That’s is how my graduation work and my thesis will investigate the effect of gamification, gambling or reward systems as well as a the esthetization of data/self-data as means to hook our attention, create always more interactions and orientate our behaviors.
-Agencies and codes of conduct in virtual and physical public spaces
-Questions (does not appear in thesis but should reflected on in the writings):
+===How to you plan to make it and on what timetable?===
-what are the status, conditions and agencies of users on the Web in comparison to being a visitor/spectator inside an exhibition space? What does it means to be a user, a visitor or spectator? What behaviors are being allowed, promoted, limited or prohibited? When and how does these conditions for entering and using these space are being stated? Can these conditions be configured by the user/viewer? Does the agencies between digital and virtual spaces can complement, contradict or cancel each others out.
-Notes
+I am developing this project with Arduino Uno/Mega boards, an array of ultrasonic sensor, P5.js and screens.<br><br>
-From an introduction to the terms of use and access of both virtual and physical public spaces within our contemporary context to exploration of possibles conflicts between the agencies of web users and exhibition visitors.
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">Intro</p>====
+How does it work?
+<br><br>
+The ultrasonic sensors can detect obstacles in a physical space and know the distance between the sensor and obstacle(s) by sending and receiving back an ultrasound. The Arduino Uno/Mega boards are microcontrollers which can receive this information, run it in a program in order to convert these values into a mm/cm/m but also map the space into an invisible grid. Ultimately, values collected on the Arduino’s serial monitor can be sent to P5.js through P5.serialcontrol. P5.js will then allow a greater freedom in way the information can be displayed on the screens.
+<br><br>
+Process:
+<br><br>
+st semester: Building a monitoring device, converting human actions into events, and events into visual feedbacks
+<br><br>
+During the first semester, I am focused on exploring monitoring tools that can be used in the physical world, with a specific attention to ultrasonic sensors. Being new to Arduino programming, my way of working is to start from the smallest and most simple prototype and gradually increase its scale/technicality until reaching human/architectural scale. Prototypes are subject to testing, documentation and comments helping to define which direction to follow. The first semester also allows to experiment with different kind of screen (LCD screens, Touch screens, computer screens, TV screens) until finding the most adequate screen monitor(s) for the final installation. Before building the installation, the project is subject to several sketching and animated simulations in 3 dimensions, exploring different scenarios and narrations. At the end of the semester, the goal is to be able to convert a specific range of human actions into events and visual feedback creating a feedback loop from the human behaviors being converted into information; the translation of this information into written/visual feedbacks; and the effects of this feedbacks on human behavior; and so on.
+<br><br>
+nd semester: Implementing gamification with the help of collaborative filtering, point system and ranking.
+<br><br>
+During the second semester, it is all about building and implementing a narration with the help of gaming mechanics that will encourage humans to feed the data gathering device with their own help. An overview of how it works is presented here in the project proposal and will be subject to further developments in the practice.
+<br><br>
+To summarize the storyline, the subject being positioned in the detection zone finds herself/himself unwillingly embodied as the main actor of a data collection game. Her/His mere presence generates a number of points/dollars displayed on a screen, growing as she/he stays within the area. The goal is simple: to get a higher score/rank and unlock achievements by acting as recommended by a data-collector.  This can be done by setting clear goals/rewards to the subject, and putting its own performance in comparison to all the previous visitors, giving unexpected messages/rewards, and give an aesthetic value to the displayed informations.
+<br><br>
+The mechanism is based on a sample of physical events that have been already explored in the first semester of prototyping (detection of movements, positions, lapse of time spent standing still or moving, and entry or exit from a specific area of detection). Every single detected event in this installation is stored in a data bank, and with the help of collaborative filtering, will  allow to the display of custom recommendations such as:
+<br><br>
+_ “Congratulations, you have now given the monitor 12 % of all possible data to collect”<br>
+_ “Are you sure you don’t want to move to the left? The monitor has only collected data from 3 visitors so far in this spot”<br>
+_ “Congratulations, the monitor has reached 1000 pieces of information from you!”<br>
+_ “If you stay there for two more minutes, there is a 99% chance you will be in the top 100 of ALL TIME data-givers”<br>
+_ “Leaving all-ready? The monitor has yet 304759 crucial pieces of information to collect from you”<br>
+_ “You are only 93860 actions away from being the top one data-giver”<br>
+_ “Statistics are showing that people staying for more than 5 minutes average will be 10 times more benefitting for me”<br>
+_ “The longer you stay on this spot, the more chance you have to win a “Lazy data-giver” badge”<br>
+<br><br>
+The guideline is set out here, but will be constantly updated with the help of experiments and the results observed during the various moments of interaction between the students and the algorithm. For this purpose, the installation under construction will be left active and autonomous in its place of conception (studio) and will allow anyone who deliberately wishes to interact with it to do so. Beyond the voluntary interactions, my interest is also to see what can be extracted from people simply passing in front of this installation. In addition to this, some of the mechanics of the installation will be further explored by collaborating with other students, and setting up more ephemeral and organized experiences with the participants. (ex: 15 February 2022 with Louisa)
+<br><br>
+This semester will also include the creation of a definite set of illustrations participating to engage the participants of the installation in a more emotional way, the illustrations will be made by an illustrator/designer, with whom I usually collaborate.
+<br><br>
+rd semester: Build the final installation of final assessment and graduation show. Test runs, debug and final touchs.
+<br><br>
+During the third semester, the installation should be settled in the school, in the alumni area, next to XPUB studio for the final assessment, and ultimately settled again at WORM for the graduation show. I am interested in putting this installation into privileged spaces of human circulation, (such as hallways) that would more easily involve the detection of people, and highlight the intrusive aspect of such technologies. The narration, the mechanics, illustrations and graphic aspect should be finalized at the beginning of the 3rd semester, and subject to intense test runs during all that period until meeting the deadline.
-Introduction
-In the context of my thesis, my curiosity is focused on spaces whose primary function is to mediate certain contents in order to make them public. This, in order to question in which context our experience of content is played out.  Thus, my interest will focus on physical exhibition spaces and web interfaces rather than on the physical or digital world in a broader sense. For me, these are spaces of representation and experience in which all content becomes subject to interpretation, reflection, sharing and questioning in the present and the future rather than just being contents that just exist by themselves.
-In order to approach this subject, it seems essential to me to start at the beginning, that is to say the access and use of a public spaces, whether it is virtual or physical.
+===Relation to larger context===
-Every public place has a code of conduct that may be in addition to the laws in force in the country / state / territory / network / infrastructure where it is located. These rules define our accessibly to the spaces as well as our agency to move, express ourselves, own objets, or see / use / own / exchange / reproduce / distribute a content. Such policies are applied depending on  the status of the individual/user. In that sense, these rules can vary depending on whether the subjects are visitors / employees / administrators in a public space such as a theatre, cinema, park, library, museum, etc, or  developers / moderators / administrators / users inside a public website, social network or application, etc. The emergence of augmented reality, virtual reality or meta-verse; and the conversion of our online and physical behaviours into data, all testify of an increasing intervention of the virtual into the physical. Therefore, the status of user/human and agencies of the web and physical world sometimes have to both coexist. We will ask if they could eventually complement, contradict or cancel each others on some aspects.
+As GAFAM companies are facing more and more legal issues, and held accountable in growing numbers of social and political issues around the world, the pandemic context has greatly contributed to make all of us more dependent than ever on the online services provided by these companies and to somehow force our consent. While two decades of counter-terrorism measures legitimized domestic and public surveillance techniques such as online and video monitoring, the current public health crisis made even more necessary the use of new technologies for regulating the access to public spaces and services, but also for socializing, working together, accessing to culture, etc. In a lot of countries, from a day to another, and for an undetermined time, it has become necessary to carry a smartphone (or a printed QR code) in order to get access transport, entertainment, cultural and catering services, but also in order to do simple things such as to have a look at the menu in a bar/restaurant or to make an order.. Thus, this project takes place in a context where techno-surveillance has definitely taken a determining place in the way we can access spaces and services related to the physical world. <br><br>
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">Policies, conditions and terms of use of the Web</p>===
+Data Marketisation / Self Data: Quantified Self / Attention Economy / Public Health Surveillance / Cybernetics
-Unlike countries / nations / states / physical territories, the Internet is a network that has no centralised governance, which means that the rules are therefore generally defined inside each of its constituents. The access and use of certain websites, applications or online services may depend on the visitor's agreement ability to fit to custom conditions that have been set by the administrators* themselves. Depending on the country from which the website is hosted or accessed, these requirements can consist the partial or complete acceptance of certain functionalities by the user (cookies**, tracking, geo localisation, etc.), the deactivation of advertising blockers, the confirmation of a minimum age requirement, the creation of a user account or a paid subscription, the possession of an IP address eligible for the consultation of contents within specific countries, etc. This list of requirements changes and may appear at different locations and moments of our navigation through Web interfaces, it also changes depending on the . Common examples could either be the apparition a centred pop-up window, simultaneously blocking the use of the website until conditions are accepted. In other cases, and when the requirements may not be too restrictive, these rules could just be found via a hyperlink associated to the main page of the website.
-* since May 2011, the European Union created a cookie law, allowing users to refuse cookies that may use their personal informations, which leaded each to update their own laws.
+===Who can help you?===
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">Regulation and censorship / Freedom of the Internet</p>===
+<b>Prototyping</b><br>
+Manetta Berends<br>
+Michael Murtaugh<br>
+<br>
+<b>Writing</b> <br>
+Luke Williams<br>
+<br>
+<b>Arduino</b><br>
+XPUB Arduino knowledge sharing group<br>
+Dennis de Bel <br>
+Aymeric Mansoux<br>
+<br>
+<b>Installation building</b><br>
+Wood station<br>
+Interaction station <br>
+<br>
+<b>Illustrations</b><br>
+Adrien Jacquemet (illustrator/graphic designer)<br>
+<br>
+<b>Installation location</b> <br>
+Leslie Robbins<br>
+<br>
+<b>Extra help for game narratives</b><br>
+Rosa Zangenberg (writer/artist)<br>
-While it is considered very hard, if not impossible for an entity / organisation / nation to fully be able to regulate the Web, some governments can exerce a relatively strong influence, as websites can be either be hosted or made accessible inside their own countries by/for their own citizens.( talk about China / Russia examples?). Freedom of speech, online surveillance and content censorship are some of the biggest points of contradiction between the politic of some governments and the intended freedom of the Internet. As a result of such, the original idea of an internet free of any form of control or censorship is tending to recede as some governments have the project to regulate its accessibility, agencies and contents.
+===Relation to previous practice?===
- « In the early days of the Web, a decade or so ago, it was taken for granted that freedom of expression online would inexorably evolve and progress. It was assumed that governments that did not uphold the fundamental human right to speak and write freely would be powerless against the spread of those values over the Internet.  By now, though, those early dreams have been dashed. The reality today is that Internet censorship is a growing practice both east and west of Vienna, with the filter-ing of Internet content carried out by both established Western democracies and transitional ones. Indeed, the countries where Internet matters the most as the sole carrier of real news media are the same countries whose governments, posing as ‘’defenders’’ of the public, filter and block the most online content.»
+During my previous studies in graphic design, I started being engaged with the new media by making a small online reissue of Raymond Queneau’s book called Exercices de Style. In this issue called Incidences Médiatiques (2017), the user/reader was encouraged to explore the 99 different versions of a same story written by the author in a less-linear way. The idea was to consider each user graphic user interface as a unique reading context. It would determine which story could be read, depending on the device used by the reader, and the user could navigate through these stories by resizing the Web window, by changing browser or by using on a different device.
+<br><br>
+As part of my graduation project called Media Spaces (2019), I wanted to reflect on the status of networked writing and reading, by programming my thesis in the form of Web to Print website. Subsequently, this website became translated in the physical space as a printed book, and a series of installations displayed in an exhibition space that was following the online structure of my thesis (home page, index, part 1-2-3-4). In that way, I was interested to inviting to visitors to make a physical experience some aspects of the Web
+<br><br>
+As a first-year student of Experimental Publishing, I continued to work in that direction by eventually creating a meta-website called Tense (2020) willing to display the invisible html <meta> tags inside of an essay in order to affect our interpretation of the text. In 2021, I worked on a geocaching pinball game highlighting invisible Web event, and a Web oscillator, which amplitude and frequency range were directly related to the user’s cursor position and browser screen-size.
+<br><br>
+While it has always been clear to me that these works were motivated by the desire to define media as context, subject or/and content, the projects presented here have often made use of surveillance tools to detect and translate user information into feedbacks, participating in the construction of an individualized narrative or/and a unique viewing/listening context (interaction, screen size, browser, mouse position). The current work aims to take a critical look at the effect of these practices in the context of techno surveillance.
+<br><br>
+Similarly, projects such as Media Spaces have sought to explore the growing confusion between human and web user, physical and virtual space or online and offline spaces. This project will demonstrate that these growing confusions will eventually lead us to be tracked in all circumstances, even in our most innocuous daily human activities/actions.
-Miklos Haraszti -OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media - Ref Deibert, Ronald J.; Palfrey, John G.; Rohozinski, Rafal; Zittrain, Jonathan (April 2010). Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262514354. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011.)
-* find better word that administrator to designate people in charge of a physical or digital space
+===Selected References===
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">Policies, conditions and terms of use in public physical spaces</p>===
+<b>Works:</b>
-Some administrators of physical public spaces can legally moderate the conditions of entry/membership, circulation and access to visitors on various grounds which must remain within a legal framework. Some of the possible requirements can be to fit the minimum legal age, to fit with a dress code, to own membership card or a ticket. In the time this thesis is being written, these rules may also include to demonstrate a valid vaccinal passport and/or, to be wearing a face mask and to respect public health safety measures. (Expend a bit what is going in public physical spaces)
+* M. DARKE, fairlyintelligent.tech (2021) https://fairlyintelligent.tech/
+« invites us to take on the role of an auditor, tasked with addressing the biases in a speculative AI »Alternatives to techno-surveillance
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">About public exhibition spaces rules and policies</p>===
+<br>
+* MANUEL BELTRAN, Data Production Labor (2018) https://v2.nl/archive/works/data-production-labour/
-Identified as public institutions, some exhibition spaces can be subjects to many regulations applying in full to its visitors. With the evolving sociological, technological and political context, these institutions have to deal with an ever-changing scope of potential causalities, happening on both Digital and physical layers. These rules are designed to protect visitors, staff members and third parties, as well as to protect the exhibited objects both from a physical and legal issues.
+Expose humans as producers of useful intellectual labor that is benefiting to the tech giants and the use than can be made out of that labor.
+<br>
-By giving a close look at a sample museums hosting big audiences and providing detailed informations about their policy (Louvres Paris, Guggenheim NYC, Tate London, MoMa NYC), we will review what can be the rules that applies to visitors in such specific spaces.
+* TEGA BRAIN and SURYA MATTU, Unfit-bits (2016) http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits
+Claims that that technological devices can be manipulated easily and hence, that they are fallible and subjective. They do this by simply placing a self-tracker (connected bracelet) in another context, such as on some other objects, in order to confuse these devices.
-*https://www.guggenheim.org/plan-your-visit/visiting-faq
+<br>
-*https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/2021-03/Louvre-reglement-de-visite-2019-EN.pdf
+* JACOB APPELBAUM, Autonomy Cube (2014), https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2916/trevor-paglen-and-jacob-appelbaumautonomy-cube/
-*https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/visit/our-policies.pdf (https://www.moma.org/visit/tips )
+Allows galleries to enjoy encrypted internet access and communications, through a Tor Network
-*https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-gallery-rules
+<br>
+* STUDIO MONIKER, Clickclickclick.click (2016) https://clickclickclick.click/
-While taking a look at the digital/physical documents provided by these museums (via their website, or the institution reception), we can observe that prohibited items and behavior are usually listed with a lot of precision. As observed, it is commonly prohibited to: drink, eat, smoke; make a lot of noise; touch the artworks, run, move objects, sit in inappropriate position, leave personal belonging, carry a children or animal or own/display some specific kind of objects (bags, towels, files, luggage, packages or drawing pads weapons, sharp objects, photography equipment, artwork, etc) inside the exhibition space, or the entire architecture.
+You are rewarded for exploring all the interactive possibilities of your mouse, revealing how our online behaviors can be monitored and interpretated by machines.
+<br>
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">Visitor and users - users of the physicals spaces</p>===
+* RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, Third Person (2006) https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php
+Portrait of the viewer is drawn in real time by active words, which appear automatically to fill his or her silhouette https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/third_person.php
-Let’s have a look at situation when the status of exhibition visitor is confused with the status of user… (to be continued). Find examples and documentation
+<br>
-Write about post-wimp model!!! ([https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Designing_the_user_experience_in_exhibition_spaces_-_Elisa_Rubegni,_Caporali_Maurizio,_Antonio_Rizzo,_Erik_Gr%C3%B6nvall link])
+* JONAL LUND, What you see is what you get (2012) http://whatyouseeiswhatyouget.net/
+«Every visitor to the website’s browser size, collected, and played back sequentially, ending with your own.»
-ref:
+<br>
-* JODI, "\/\/iFi", 2018, Wi-Fi Captive Portal nodes visualize surrounding cellphones, courtesy the artist. https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/digdeeper/jodi
+* USMAN HAQUE, Mischievous Museum (1997) https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/
-* Memex - Vannevar Bush 1945
+Readings of the building and its contents are therefore always unique -- no two visitors share the same experience. https://haque.co.uk/work/mischievous-museum/
-* Graspable interfaces (Fitzmaurice et al., 1995) [https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~gf/papers/PhD%20-%20Graspable%20UIs/Thesis.gf.html link]
-* [http://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/biblio/after-white-cube [[After the White Cube.]]] [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n06/hal-foster/after-the-white-cube doc] 2015
-more to check:
-* Beaudouin-Lafon, M. (2000) Instrumental Interaction:An Interaction Model for Designing Post-Wimp User Interfaces, CHI 2000 1- 6 April 2000
-*Falk, J. H., Dierking, L. D. (2000) Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning, AltaMira Press, CA
-*Fitzmaurice, G., Ishii, H., Buxton, W. (1995) Laying the Foundations for Graspable User Interfaces. In Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'95, ACM Press, p.442-449
-*Norman, D. A. (1990) The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday Currency, New York/London/Toronto
-*Norman, D. A. (1993). Things that make us smart: Defending human attributes in the age of the machine. Reading, MA. Addison-Wesley
-*Norman, D. A. The Invisible Computer. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998
-*Rizzo A. (2000), La Natura degli Artefatti e la loro Progettazione, in Sistemi-Intelligenti, (n.3): pp.437-452.
-*Shneiderman, B. (1983). Direct Manipulation : a Step Beyond Programming Languages. IEEE Computer, 16(8), pp 57-69
-*Smith, D., Irby, C., Kimball, R., Verplank, B., Harslem E. (1982). Designing the Star User Interface. Byte, 7(4), p.242:282.
-*Tomasello, M., Kruger, A.C. and Ratner. H.H. Cultural learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(3):495{ 552, 1993
-*Tomasello, M. (2000). The cultural origins of human cognition. Harvard U.P.
-*Van Dam, A. (1997) Post-Wimp User Interfaces the human connection, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, February 1997/Vol. 40, No. 2
-*Bush, V. (1945) As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 176, No. 1; 101-108.
-*Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
-*Zhang, J. and Norman, D. A. (1994) Representations in distributed cognitive tasks. Cognitive Science 18:
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-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.1 Terms, conditions, agreements — The user’s agencies through the Web interfaces</p>====
+<b>Books & Articles:</b>
-What does it means to be a user? Does it necessarily involves interactivity? What are the status, conditions of use and agencies of users on the World Wide Web? What are the user’s agencies when visiting a specific website? We will go through terms and agreements; cookies, privacy settings, legal uses, advertisement, copyrights, licenses, etc.
-* [[The_User_Condition_04:_A_Mobile_First_World_-_Silvio_Lorusso|The User Condition 04: A Mobile First World]] - Silvio Lorusso
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.2 Rules, safety, regulations — The spectator’s agencies through the physical exhibition spaces</p>====
-What does it’s mean to be exhibition visitor? Does it necessarily involved to be spectating? What is the status, conditions and agencies of a visitor inside a museum, gallery or any other exhibition space? We will talk about artwork(s) safety, public safety, prohibited items, public speaking, photography, equipments, behavior, circulation, etc.
-* Louvres Visitors rules: https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit/museum-rules
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">2. CONTEXTS</p>===
-What are the spatial, technological and/or political factors defining the context in which the user(s) or visitor(s) is/are situated? Is/are the users/visitors and the content situated within the same space? What are the elements defining, communicating or giving structure to the contents? In  which kind architecture or system are these parameters existing or being displayed? How does the technologies used to support and display contents can affect their sustainability, or the way they can be perceived/experienced?
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.1 Technological context of the Web</p>====
-=====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.1.1 Historical framework of the user interfaces</p>=====
-From Batch Computing & Command Line Interfaces [The IBM 029 Card Punch]; to Command-Line Interfaces (CLIs); to video display terminals; to Graphical User Interface (GUI) [Xerox, Windows 1.0, Apple Lisa OfficeSystem 1, VisiCorp Visi On, Mac OS System 1] introducing the pointing systems (mouse/cursor) but also window systems with icons (folders, bins, etc); futher improved [Amiga Workbench 1.0, Windows 2.0, and 3.0, and Mac OS System 7, Windows 95 ]. Then the smartphone shifted the way to conceive UI design and democratized the concept of phone apps, that itself influenced back the way to conceive desktop interfaces (Windows 10). Actual user interfaces seem to give more and more space to  voice, touch imputs, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc. As an observation of this historical framework, we could speculate of the fact that the user interfaces will be less and less embodied inside devices themselves, and more and more projected into the physical space itself, or by the conception virtual spaces. This is how in my opinion, the concept of cybernetic spacex is becoming a reality. (we will also evoke the UI and UX)
-*[https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/search?query=+The+Interface+Effect bootleg][[Alexander R. Galloway - The Interface Effect]]   1st ed. Malden, USA: Polity Press.<br>
-*[https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/search?query=Navigating+Neoliberalism bootleg] [[Nick_Srnicek_-_Navigating_Neoliberalism:_Political_Aesthetics_in_an_Age_of_Crisis|Srnicek, L., 2016. Navigating Neoliberalism: Political Aesthetics in an Age of Crisis]], medium.com
-*[https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/search?query=+Program+or+be+programmed bootleg][[Program_Or_Be_Programmed_-_Ten_Commands_For_A_Digital_Age_Douglas_Rushkoff|Douglas Rushkoff, A., 2010. Program Or Be Programmed - Ten Commands For A Digital Age Douglas Rushkoff]]. 1st ed. Minneapolis, USA: OR Books.
-*[https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/search?query=The+Best+Interface+Is+No+Interface bootleg][[The_Best_Interface_Is_No_Interface_-_Golden_Krishna|Krishna, G., 2015. The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology (Voices That Matter)]]. 1st ed. unknown: New Riders Publishing.
-*[https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/search?query=interface bootleg][[Interface Critique- Beyond UX - FLORIAN HADLER, ALICE SOINÉ; DANIEL IRRGANG]] Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné, Daniel Irrgang
-=====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.1.2 An infinite array of individualized, elastic and obsolete perspectives/renders</p>=====
-The Web digital interfaces offer to each of its users/a custom point of view based on an innumerable and ever-changing array of technological factors.  To list only few of them we could find for example the device; the browser;  the system; the screen-size; the resolution; the user configurations and defaults settings, the IP address; etc.. The users have the choice to change most these settings, often without having to refresh their web page (ex: resizing user interface). Added to that, the display/render of a website are also affected by the constant evolution of the Web itself, with patches, updates, expired and added elements that contribute to the ephemerality and unpredictability of what can be seen.
-How to make these differences visible, and why would it be important? How does this ever changing technology involves some unpredictability and obsolescence in the way contents can be rendered? How could the plastic property of the Web digital interfaces be emulated in the exhibition space?  How did this constraint slowly democratized the implementation responsive mechanics inside the Web.
-* [http://whatyouseeiswhatyouget.net/ What you see is what you get] — Jonas Lund (2012)
-* [[Plasticity_of_User_Interfaces:A_Revised_Reference_Framework|Plasticity of User Interfaces:A Revised Reference Framework]] - Gaëlle Calvary, Joëlle Coutaz, David Thevenin Quentin Limbourg, Nathalie Souchon, Laurent Bouillon, Murielle Florins, Jean Vanderdonckt
-* Lopez, J.F., Szekely, P., Web page adaptation for Universal Access, in Proc. of Conf. on Universal Access in HCI UAHCI’ 2001
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.2 Technological contexts in the museum/exhibition space</p>====
-=====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.2.1 Historical framework of the exhibition spaces</p>=====
-What is the purpose of an exhibition space? Exhibition spaces are meant to be where arts becomes public.
-From private galleries (owned and exhibited by individuals to other individiuals) to public galleries (owned by institutions and exhibited to public audiences); From condensed displays (when frames used to be very close from each others but also puted everywhere on ceiling, corners, etc) to spaced displays to spatialized displays (assigning a space to an artwork or a few artworks); From physical exhibtions to virtual exhibitions). I need to find back my notes about this topic and definitivly need more documentation.
-* [http://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/biblio/after-white-cube [[After the White Cube.]]] [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n06/hal-foster/after-the-white-cube doc] 2015
-* [http://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/biblio/spaces-experience-art-gallery-interiors-1800-2000 [[Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 – 2000]]] [http://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/biblio/spaces-experience-art-gallery-interiors-1800-2000 doc]
-* [https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/262138/colour-critique/ [[Colour Critique A Symposium on Colour as an Agent for Taste, Experience and Value in the Exhibition Space]]]
-* [[Mental Spaces - Joost Rekveld/Michael van Hoogenhuyze]] (course for Artscience 2007/8) [http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/?page_id=590 doc]
-=====<p style="font-family:helvetica">2.2.2 Spaces and agents of the production of knowledge</p>=====
-What are the elements involved into the museum display? Why do they matter? How do they orientate our circulation, affect our perception, and define a object/subject as an artwork? We will be considering the maximum amount of parameters that can be controlled by the curator such as architecture, scale, size, interior design, colors, temperature, layout, writing, arrangement, lighting, display, etc. We will also be talking about some of the parameters than can escape the control of a curator such as the number of visitors inside the space, the surrounding environment of an exhibition, the possible occurence(s) of external constraints and restrictions, etc.
-* [[THE_DEVIL_IS_IN_THE_DETAILS:_MUSEUM_-_Displays_and_the_Creation_of_Knowledge|Stéphanie Moser, 2010. THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: MUSEUM - Displays and the Creation of Knowledge Doc. 1st ed. Southampton, England]]
-* [[From_the_Critique_of_Institutions_to_an_Institution_of_Critique_-_Andrea_Fraser|From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique]] - Andrea FraserDoc
-==<p style="font-family:helvetica">II. Reversing the desktop metaphor</p>==
-This second part directly evokes the concepts surrounding the exhibition space that is being build for the graduation.
-The desktop metaphor was invented in the early ages of computers in order to facilitate the use and understanding of the digital interfaces, by making mental associations related to domains from the physical world. Now democratised, widely used and often replacing our needs to converge in physical spaces (especially in times of pandemic), I would like to reverse this process by getting inspired by the concepts of the digital interfaces in order to suggest a singular experience and understanding of the exhibition space.
-===<p style="font-family:helvetica">1. CONCEPTS OF THE CYBERNETIC EXHIBITION SPACE</p>===
-Conceiving the exhibition space as a user interface and exploring concepts that bring together notions from both digital and physical world.
-*  [https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/7/1/JCMC713/4584229 From Cyber Space to Cybernetic Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual SpacesAnanda Mitra, Rae Lynn SchwartzJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1 October 2001]
-* [http://screenl.es/ The screenless office] - Brendan Howell
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.1 "Architectural Device"</p>====
-Conceiving the architecture as a spatial, technological and political device composed of a set of factors and parameters that can be configured.
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.2 "Physical Events"</p>====
-On the Web, our actions and inactions can be converted into (silent and invisible) events that can give activate things and be converted into valuable informations for advertisers, algorythms, etc. How could such thing be conceptualized inside an exhibition space.
-* [https://clickclickclick.click/ Clickclickclick.click] - VPRO Medialab & Moniker
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.3 "Programmed physical space"</p>====
-Comparing the programming of an interface with the curation of a exhbibition space. Could an exhibition space be programmed? Does it make the visitor a user of the space?
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.4 "Exhibition User"</p>====
-Conceiving the Spectator as a User or a performer of the physical space
-* [https://www.muhka.be/programme/detail/1405-shilpa-gupta-today-will-end/item/30302-speaking-wall Speaking wall] Shilpa Gupta, 2009 - 2010
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.5 "Variable Display"</p>====
-Conceiving the physical space as an elastic/variable and potentially unpredicatable display; in order to diffract the range of viewing contexts offered by the Web.
-====<p style="font-family:helvetica">1.6 "Meta space"</p>====
-Conceiving a cybernetic exhibition space, capturing information, translating these informations into intra-actions and displaying these informations as the content of the exhibition itself
-*  [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v6.23009  The meta as an aesthetic category] Bruno Trentini (2014)<br>
-==<p style="font-family:helvetica">Conclusion</p>==
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-==<p style="font-family:helvetica">Selected References</p>==
-* [https://clickclickclick.click/ Clickclickclick.click] -  VPRO Medialab & Moniker
-*Stéphanie Moser, 2010. [[THE_DEVIL_IS_IN_THE_DETAILS:_MUSEUM_-_Displays_and_the_Creation_of_Knowledge|THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: MUSEUM - Displays and the Creation of Knowledge]]. 1st ed. Southampton, England
-*  [https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/7/1/JCMC713/4584229 From Cyber Space to Cybernetic Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual SpacesAnanda Mitra, Rae Lynn SchwartzJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1 October 2001]
-*Alexander R. Galloway - [[Alexander_R._Galloway_-_The_Interface_Effect|The Interface Effect]] 1st ed. Malden, USA: Polity Press.
-*Jonas Lund, 2012. [http://whatyouseeiswhatyouget.net/ What you see is what you get]
-*Frederick Kiesler, 1925, [https://thecharnelhouse.org/2013/11/19/frederick-kiesler-city-of-space-1925/ City of space]
-*Brendan Howell, 2017(?) - [http://screenl.es/ The screenless office]
+* SHOSHANA ZUBOFF, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2020)
+Warns against this shift towards a «surveillance capitalism». Her thesis argues that, by appropriating our personal data, the digital giants are manipulating us and modifying our behavior, attacking our free will and threatening our freedoms and personal sovereignty.
+<br>
+* EVGENY MOROZOV, Capitalism’s New Clothes (2019)
+Extensive analysis and critic of Shoshana Zuboff research and publications.
+<br>
+* BYRON REEVES AND CLIFFORD NASS, The Media Equation, How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (1996)
+Precursor study of the relation between humans and machine, and how do you human relate to them.
+<br>
+* OMAR KHOLEIF, Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the digital Age (2018)
+Authors shares it’s own data as a journal in a part of the book, while on another part, question how the Internet has changed the way we perceive and relate, and interact with/to images.
 <br>
-More [[XPUB2_Research_Board_/_Martin_Foucaut#Readings_.28new.29.28english.29.28with_notes_in_english.29|here]]
+* KATRIN FRITSCH, Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication (2018)
+Suggests that in response to our society of surveillance, artists can suggest activist response that doesn’t necessarily involve technological literacy, but instead can promote strong counter metaphors or/and counter use of these intrusive technologies.
 =<p style="font-family:helvetica">What is my work, What do I want to tell, What is my position</p>=