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Privacy? | Dries DEPOORTER | TEDxBrussels


to bring awareness about privacy

surveillance and social media in this

presentation I’m gonna talk about fixed

artistic projects that are made in the

last two years the personnel project I

want to talk about is syndrome then the

project is about social media

Gendron exists out of ten photo frames

and each photo frames each photo frame

exists out of two profile pictures one

is from tinder and one is from LinkedIn

of the same person I placed them next to

each other and I didn’t ask for

permission the project went viral and I

ended up with many problems the second

project I want to talk about it

matchstick kissed and scratch it gets

about social media and it’s the lottery

ticket where you can win up to 25,000 to

take followers for your Instagram or

Twitter account so you pay one euro for

this pollute or e-ticket there’s also

tickets of hundred followers thousand

followers but also 25,000 state follows

there’s a lot of companies generating

fake accounts and they spell it to give

you an ID for Instagram thousand fake

spoilers you paste seventeen dollars and

you get the followers in like one minute

in exhibitions I spell them and this

kinda spending machines you pay one year

I get it loaded ticket you can also buy

the tickets online

another picture of the the planning

machine and the installation was on

display all across Europe

another installation is called

jaywalking it’s again an artistic

project that I made and it looked like

this

it exists out of three screens and three

red buttons and on each screen you see a

live the beylin camera pointed to a

crossroad so this surveillance camera is

I didn’t place it there it’s an

unprotected camera it doesn’t have

password

I made software to detect if people are

jaywalking so it checks if the the

traffic light is red and then it checks

if someone is crossing the road if the

system finds a jaywalker the visitor get

this question would you like to port the

deer walker by pressing the red button

the visitor can stand an email to the

closest police station nearby the

traffic camera and the email looks like

this hi somebody just jaywalked at and

then you have a address of the camera

bye

and in the attachment of the of the

email you have the jaywalker the next

step in this project is called

jaywalking frames it exists out of more

than 5,000 frames of people that are

jaywalking from all over the world with

my software you can buy into photo frame

and the pride of each auto frame is the

same as a fine in that country and you

can buy each photo frame once one of my

latest project is named as two valence

paparazi it looks like this it’s a box

it can recognize more than 200 thousands

the liberties and it checks cameras that

are unprotected again surveillance

cameras and holly wheels to climb to

liberties I just finished this

installation and it’s fine

most of the time it looka like so it

says like okay this is this the Liberty

and it’s for 65% chance

this guy but I really hope that it will

find a real celebrity so I can sell this

picture to finish this presentation I

want to talk about my most recent

project that I launched four weeks ago

it’s called die with me and die with me

is an app for your iPhone and your

Android phone phone and you can only use

this app if you have less than spices

and battery on your phone if you have

less than five percent battery in your

phone you can chat to other people

having less than five percent battery or

equal and you can see each other’s

percentage of battery and it yeah I had

a lot of fun with this project I made

this project actually also with the

davits

super now that’s a friend of mine I made

the project became an instant success

within a week we had more than a half

million people chatting in the chat room

no I mean chat messages in the chat room

so to end of this presentation why I’m

doing this I think I’m trying to show

the dangers of new technology in a

playful way and I think in this brave new world we all be marching

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