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The Digital Self - Chronus Art Center
{{production_projects::details}}The Cached Collective was invited to lead a workshop at CAC in Shanghai at the begining of January,2019. We decided to play with the idea of the ‘Digital Self’ that is one extension of our research around “trust in the age of algorithms”.
This research resulted in an experience where inside a room after logging in on an Ipad, a smart mirror starts talking to you and reveals how your “digital self” appears. After this “revelation”, a receipt with your big five traits is printed out. In other words you get to know your psychometric profile according to the way you write on Facebook or Twitter.
This experience was the first output of this research and it unfolded many other questions to explore. Thus, wondering how to control our digital appearance, we dived into articles approaching _psychometrics, personal computing and the new techniques scientists are using to understand our online presence in a qualitative way.
Part two was more hands on, we even made a set of design brainstorming cards to help participants choose what they would prototype. They would choose three cards from three different sets. One of the cards denoted a fact or assumption such as “your selfies reveal too much about your persona”, the next was a design task “design a physical product”, and the last card was a constraint such as “to hide this from society”. After using the cards to generate ideas, we laid out an array of interesting artefacts the group could use to prototype and communicate their idea.
We had a whole range of interesting prototypes the group created. One prototype was a physical smartphone filter made using a colourful slinky. So taking selfies would only show your face with a colourful ring around it, blocking things in your surroundings from view, the idea was that things in our surroundings such as brands or locations would not be seen by third party advertisers.