{"id":244,"date":"2014-09-24T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/?p=244"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:01:21","slug":"watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/102998061?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=969696\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #71767a;\">This work talks about us and our lives, considered as a data set, as generators of personally identifiable information, as objects of cluster analysis and sources for metadata matching algorithms.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #71767a;\" \/><span style=\"color: #71767a;\">The vast amounts of data we create as we go through our lives, represents our actions, interests, intentions, communications, locations, relationships and behaviors. It&#8217;s aggregated by third party trackers \u00a0looking to deliver advertising, content and services to us, and also used by global surveillance programs for the cybernetic control of the society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_03-1024x546.jpg\" alt=\"Ran_Ancor_03\" width=\"750\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_03-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_03-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_03.jpg 1848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><br style=\"color: #71767a;\" \/><span style=\"color: #71767a;\">But when the quantitative methods used in science and business, are applied to the personal sphere there is always a reduction of complexity. The process of capture of life into data, the quantification of life, it is a lossy compression, that uses inexact approximations, rounding and truncation, producing overload distortion and quantization errors. In a sequence of calculations, these errors generally accumulate, and often very strong assumptions are made about mathematical properties that may not at all reflect what is really going on at the level of micro-processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_05-1024x556.jpg\" alt=\"Ran_Ancor_05\" width=\"750\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_05-1024x556.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_05-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_05.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><br style=\"color: #71767a;\" \/><span style=\"color: #71767a;\">In remote data centers overseas we are all constantly monitored and object of capture, storage, search, analysis and visualization. Inductive statistics and concepts from nonlinear system identification reveal relationships, dependencies and perform predictions of outcomes and behaviors.\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #71767a;\">We are all these numbers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_02-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"Ran_Ancor_02\" width=\"750\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_02-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_02-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ran_Ancor_02.jpg 1559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This work was\u00a0part of the Interactions Gallery at HCI\u00a02015, University of Lincoln.\u00a0The \u00a0British Human Computer Interaction Conference was held in Lincoln from 13th-17th July and was organised by the University of Lincoln\u2019s Social Computing research centre in partnership\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.ncl.ac.uk\/\">Open Lab<\/a> at Newcastle University. On the opening session a live video-linked discussion with\u00a0Julian Assange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8884210982699552977gmail-bodytext\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been screened in the exhibition &#8220;Dark Technology Dark Web&#8221; Spektrum Berlin 2017. While smart is the keyword of the omni-connection through the internet of things and social media, <span class=\"il\">dark<\/span> is the state of our relation with the user-oriented <span class=\"il\">technology<\/span> that operates the data collection of our online choices and issues our privacy and self determination in the web. Like never before, we are spectators of an effort of sense-making within the massive amount of data available, which is in urgent need of being interpreted by controversial intelligent machines, such as hackers do when they call them systems of surveillance. In this digital space, the <span class=\"il\">Dark<\/span> Web extends into grey-zone territory: banned by society as a container of illegal activities while serving as a genesis of new subcultures. The 3rd Exhibition for this section of <span class=\"il\">Dark<\/span> Society aims to gather works that unveil these <span class=\"il\">technological<\/span> dimensions while questioning the ability and necessity for users to stay anonymous, hide their tracks or obfuscate their surrounding systems of surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; This work talks about us and our lives, considered as a data set, as generators of personally identifiable information, as objects of cluster analysis and sources for metadata matching algorithms.\u00a0The vast amounts of data we create as we go through our lives, represents our actions, interests, intentions, communications, locations, relationships and behaviors. It&#8217;s aggregated by third party trackers \u00a0looking&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/?p=244\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extralight.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}