How is your virtual identity going?

Dynamic Data

Larysa Kozhokar

1′ 00” video

 

We live within the advanced age where our sense of self and identity has moved beyond the body to envelop hardware and software. Cyborgs, avatars, online representations of social media and virtual reality expand our idea of what it implies to be human. This advancement of individual self has arrived to this moment, where every action that you take part in, expose to potential modern virtual reality privacy concerns and the plausibility of misuse.

Dynamic data is an expression of the state of continuous movement of our biological and digital persona, these two spheres coexist in the complex web of things and devices.

My intention is to combine these two types of identity and embrace the importance of understanding where and who receive the information and what it is used for.

I wish to expound the critical attainment in which we may depict the endless flow of data. Minimally defined, I wanted to give a structure that under evaluate how our personal data is being manipulated, influenced and dictating a fraudulent system to benefit societal activities, political parties, religions, elections or interest groups.

My work consists of numerical binary codes that translate to my collected personal information in which I have trusted and allowed to be freely provided and accessible by social media platforms. The fact that it is inevitable for these highly valuable assets to be under surveillance by an individual, it has also become an intrusive agenda to direct the needs and interests of the users. It is unfair to say that a personal information has become a product of indulging economy and is happening at a massive scale.

A project made in the course

Democracy in Distress? Manufacturing Majorities Through New Forms of Propaganda

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