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Special Issues Contributions

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Reading Practice


Best of readings


Crawford, K., Lingel, J., Karppi, T., (2015). Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device

  • Questions the ethic of wearable self-tracking devices
  • "commodification and knowledge-making that occurs between data and bodies."


Debord, G., (1967). The Society of the Spectacle

  • Post-War consumerism leaded to a "Celebrity Culture", "Society of the spectacle" or society of self-performance.


Foucault, M., (1982). Technologies of the Self

  • Form of power that is not necessarily only applied from one subject to another subject but also by the subject toward himself.


Foucault, M., (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

  • The panopticon metaphor


Fritsch, K., (2018). Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication

  • Dismantle the technological mysticism of these systems and propose artistic works that speak to everyone.


Kholeif, O., (2018). Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the Digital Age

  • Data diary
  • Normalizarion of data centered marketing strategies/advertisments / Aesthetization of data


Morozov, E., (2019). Capitalism's New Clothes. The Baffler

  • Critic of Zuboff, S., (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism
  • It is possible to imagine and build a society with the Internet without this logic of surveillance


Seymour, R., (2019). The Twittering Machine

  • When interacting, we are collectively writing to the machines
  • Social media platforms as "rigged lottery systems" where a post is a gamble
  • Why do we persist using tools and platforms that exploit us


Wu, T., (2016). The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.

  • The rise of the attention economy of the Web


Zuboff, S., (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism

  • Introduce the term surveillance capitalism, which differs from governmental surveillance
  • Desillusions on the future of the Internet


Prototyping Practice

October 2021


  • In October 2021, I started using Arduino for the first time, during a workshop with Dennis de Bel. During a workshop, we started with a very basic unoficial arduino kit, a led, a motor, and a sensor. After making a few connections, we got to understand a bit how it works. It was from that point that I started getting more and more familiar with Arduino and work with ultrasonic sensors.


How to make a sensor work
Credits: Dennis de Bel
Sensortest during workshop
Splitscreen Arduino + Sensor + Serial Plotter + Responsive Space
Sketch 1: Arduino Uno + Sensor
Sketch 2: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD
Sketch 3: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD + LED
Sensor Test VS Elastic Space
Upgrade - Using a larger board















November 2021


  • During the month of November, I started working with multiple sensors at the same time in order to map the position of an obstacle on a wider detection range.


ArduinoExtraDigitalPins
SensorMediaQueries
Physical Space Mapping
ArduinoMegaSensorBuzzerLCD
ArduinoMegaSensorBuzzerLCDMinibreadboard.jpg
Sensor Wall 01
PhysicalMapping2


















December 2021


  • In December, after being a lot more confortable with Arduino, I investigated the possibilty to transmit the values detected by the sensors and Arduino to P5.js, by making a serial communication (with P5.serialcontrol). By doing so, I could gain more freedom in terms of visual/sound feedbacks. However, the serial communication between Arduino and P5.js was in stand by for a very long time, because I didn't know (yet) how to send the values of more than one sensor.
  • During the Window exhibition at Buitenboel, I created micro-installation composed of a LCD screen and sensor(s) inviting users/visitors to change the color of the screen and displayed messages by getting closer from the window.


P5.js and ultrasonic sensor
LCD Arduino Variable poster
Simu part 02.gif
ScreenPortalFront
ScreenPortalback
LCDScreenTest


















February 2022


  • In February, we created a small hybrid reality quest with Louisa. For this occasion, I created a mini-game with a sensor setup, allowing players to unlock a secret password by taking the good positions in space.


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Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa



















March 2022


  • In March 2022, I started designing differents stages/steps for the installation. The installation requires once again the player to hold on on specific position in order to unlock new stages.


Stage 0
The subject is located too far away
Stage 0
The subject is well located and will hold position to reach next stage
Stage 1
The subject unlocked Stage 1 and will hold position to reach next stage
Stage 2
The subject unlocked Stage 2 and is located too close
Stage 3
The subject unlocked Stage 3 and need to get closer
Transition Stage
The subject unlocked all stage and needs to wait the countdown for following steps
Data Collector Sample 01.gif
Debug Martin 01.png
Debug Martin 05.png
Debug Martin 02.png
Debug Martin 03.png
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_01
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_02
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_03
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_04
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_05
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_06
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_07
Checkout Visual Reference_01
Checkout Visual Reference 01
Checkout Visual Reference 03
Slot Machine Visual Reference 01
Captcha Visual Reference_01
Self Tracker Visual Reference 01
Self_Tracker_Visual_Reference_02
Self Tracker Visual Reference 03
Self Tracker Visual Reference 04
Self Tracker Visual Reference 05
Self Tracker Visual Reference 06
Self Tracker Visual Reference 08
Self Tracker Visual Reference_09
Self Tracker Visual Reference 10


















April 2022


  • In April, I started designing the final interfaces for my installation. The idea was to refer to the differents contexts of surveillance and self-surveillance evoked in my thesis.
  • Luckily, Joseph explained to me how to make the serial communication between Arduino and P5.Js with more than one sensor value, by splitting the data in many parts.


Installation Update 01.jpg
Installation Update 02.jpg
Captcha:
one action needed moving forward, backward or standing still next stage unlock after action done and short animation
Self Tracking:
no interaction needed visitor must stand still until one of the goal is completed
Self Tracking:
no interaction needed visitor must stand still until one of the goal is completed
Slot Machine:
no interactions needed transition between 2 stages determines randomly the next stage displayed when nobody detected
Social Live:
no interaction needed visitor must stand still until money goal is completed
Stock Ticket:
no interactions needed displayed when nobody detected



















May 2022


  • In May, I started considering to transiting from a small to a bigger screen for the grad show. I also updated the position of the different sensors.
  • While I spent the previous month designing the different stages interfaces, I spent this one connecting all the displayed values to the sensors.


Sensors array mapping for the installation interface
Stock Ticker Interface on small screen
Calibrating sensors angle to 15°
Drilling and displaying the TV support vertically
TV Screen can now be fixed vertically
Vertical TV Screen 02
Rounded_Sensors_Array_01
Rounded_Sensors_Array_02
Rounded_Sensors_Array_03
Rounded_Sensors_Array_04
Streaming Interface on Vertical Screen











June 2022

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Thesis: Hidden in plain sight


Hidden in plain sight:
Understanding our consent and distrust in the context of capitalist techno-surveillance

1 → Homo Data
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2 → Addiction machines
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3 → Self-empowerment
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4 → Agree and continue?
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Graduation Work: Count On Me


Count On Me

"Count On Me" is an interactive data collector that rewards your attention span and responsiveness in crypto-currency. In order to maximize profits, you will need to accurately position yourself in the space and pay attention to the instructions. Each micro-task performed allows the visitor to get extra payouts and unlock different stages ranging from stock ticker interfaces, wellness applications, gambling games, captchas, streaming platforms, self-checkouts, eg. Once ready to leave, the visitor can convert its crypto-earnings into euros by refering to a randomly assigned conversion rate.

Count On me / 01 Exit / Martin Foucaut (2022)
Count On me / 01 StockTicker / Martin Foucaut (2022)


Count On me / 02 SlotMachine / Martin Foucaut (2022)
Count On me / 03 Self Tracker V1 / Martin Foucaut (2022)


Count On me / 03 Self Tracker V2 / Martin Foucaut (2022)
Count On me / 05 Livestream / Martin Foucaut (2022)


Count On me / 07 Self Register / Martin Foucaut (2022)
Count On me / 08 Street Viewer / Martin Foucaut (2022)

How does it works?

Schema Martin 01 Count on Me
Schema Martin 01 Count on Me





Plans for final publication