Adapting.

Thinking about how my concept could be adaptable and used by other people.
- a program that collects your data to create a pattern.
- abstract so that it wouldn't be obvious what your data was.
- the more and more people that bought into it the more and more obvious peoples data would become?
- different colours to represent different aspects of life?

Tutorial Notes.

-Build up a record of what you do.
                  - Statistics.
                  - About yourself.
                  - Building up a persona?
                  - Create information.
                  - Fake profiles; celebrities.
                  - Explore different paths first.
                  - Tracing yourself/someone else.
                  - Tracking.
                  - Coding.
                  - Data flow.
                  - Make accounts.
                  - People responding/will people respond?
                  - How far can it go? Record responses?
What is my approach? Is it more about privacy or the personal?
- more ideas to fuel concept, has potential to broaden.

Look at the Data Flow books and also Information is Beautiful.

- Advertising targeting at you.
- Website tracking.
- Company supplies fake profiles for money.
- You don't know who you're talking to.
- Who is it about? - not set in stone, something people can adapt.
- Playing around with imagery.
- Coding as a language.
- Try a few types of information.
             

Privacy Articles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22025729

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310965/Special-Investigation-It-took-just-hour-internet-experts-private-womans-life.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2058205,00.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-fined-7m-for-street-view-snooping-8532257.html

Just a few of the articles that I've found researching privacy scandals within technology and the internet.  Privacy is a major issue in many different strands of the internet, social media is definitely a large culprit for this. 

Even though there a constantly new regulations put in to try and manage privacy online, how can you ever really manage the internet?

With more technology being made by the week, integrating into different aspects of peoples lives, privacy is likely to just get worse. 

The use of apps are becoming more popular, which often use data and information, where possibly 3rd parties would be able to get hold of it. 

Data Art.

'This project is about BBC data and how it can be visualised in a creative and informative way. In blurring the boundary between art and information DataArt aims to reach both experts and non-experts alike to grow interest in a media area of increasing public importance.'
                                                                                    http://www.data-art.net/


Data art have been compiling data used be the bbc to create interesting ways of displaying data, I really like the fact that some of these ways of presenting data, make it no longer appear like a chart or a graph, but something visually inspiring.
Using different colours, opacities and patterns could be a way of translating data in a hidden way, different colours etc meaning different things, but only the creator knows what those things represent.

Technology art.

London Design Festival, - Prism installation displaying digital data from all over the city

http://pinterest.com/karincole/

Chris Davenport- Data Shuffle

todayandtomorrow.net

Data Graphics.

http://pinterest.com/netappanz/  

http://pinterest.com/misstiina/digital-art-by-miss-tiina/

I've been looking into ways in which data and statistics are presented, looking at various graphs and charts. I think often these can become pieces of artwork in their own right, with or without the information. 

It would be interesting to collate data in a way inspired by graphs and tables, to create a pattern, that may not be instantly recognizable as information. 

Perhaps then the data is hidden again, bringing some privacy back. 

http://pinterest.com/elinext/

http://pinterest.com/inspirefirst/

                            

Back to the drawing board.

After still not being able to come up with something visually strong enough to represent the concept of what lies beneath, I realised that perhaps I just wasn't inspired enough by the idea, and that I should come up with something else to work with.

I was originally interested in how far technology was progressing and how it's effecting society today. 

This got me thinking about data, and the fact that personal date is often readily available online, often without you knowing. 

How is this going effect future generations?

People will be growing up with their entire life online? 

Nothing hidden anymore?

No privacy?

May as well wear your data?