Data Camouflage
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- If You See Something Say Something: Art, War, Surveillance and the Sustainability of Urgency in the Post 9/11 Era
Presentation Title:
- Data Camouflage
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Panel: If You See Something Say Something: Art, War, Surveillance and the Sustainability of Urgency in the Post 9/11 Era
With the recent transition from soldiers wearing conventional camouflage in warfare to digital pixels on their battle uniforms, we no longer have a need for the soldiers to blend into the landscape of warfare, but instead we need them to blend into the machinery of warfare – namely the digital noise in the chip found on night vision goggles. With the widespread use of household digital tools today, for the first time in our culture, we have almost as many producers of information as we have consumers. As we generate data at a continually increasing rate, collection of information is no longer as important as the analysis of that information. In an age where everything is archived and the need to delete is almost nonexistent, can we hide and remain private by generating digital noise of our own?