Here's the Information We Collect - Online Exhibition PCD25

Here's the Information We Collect is a multi-channel interactive video installation tailored to respond to selected privacy policy on major social media platforms.

The project processes audience speech to create real-time music, highlighting the interplay between user privacy and corporate data practices.

The audience members are invited to engage with the work by speaking into a microphone. Their words will be processed by a pre-coded speech recognition program to match the key words to specific sonic elements performed by professional vocalists, creating a dynamic and evolving musical score in real time.

The project calls attention to tech corporations' collection and capitalization of user data behind the scenes as a form of digital colonialism.

Experience the project

Say "help" to reveal the keywords, press the space bar to fullscreen

Here's the Information We Collect evokes curiosity and amazement at how personal interactions generate evolving soundscapes while revealing hidden digital mechanisms.

Tansy Xiao

Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator, and writer based in New York. Undertaking interdisciplinary collaborations involving human participants, technological systems, and non-anthropogenic organisms, Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people. Xiao has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

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