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Privacy Glitch

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As we browse around the web we are constantly tracked. Unknown entities watch us like a million invisible CCTV cameras logging our every movement. Privacy Glitch is a digital art project designed to make these invisible power structures visible. Note: I originally did this work in 2015 but never got around to publishing. Digging back through my archives I found the glitched images of Trump and Clinton arresting and decided to get it up on my blog. Enjoy. I’m using a process known as glitching (and more specifically the process of data-bending). The source images are photos and screenshots taken from popular media sites and the characters inserted into those image files to produce the glitch effects are the contents of the tracking cookies generated when I visited these sites in my browser. The final product is a series of images at once stark, abstract, colorful and broken. These images represent a visual manifestation of the invisible web of tracking cookies designed to erode our priv

Privacy Glitch TOM CRITCHLOW TOM CRITCHLOW Home About me Writing Library Newsletter Search Projects My Book AI Search Leaders Elsewhere Twitter LinkedIn Are.na November 7, 2017 Privacy Glitch A digital art project exploring the relationship between the visible and invisible in media. As we browse around the web we are constantly tracked. Unknown entities watch us like a million invisible CCTV cameras logging our every movement. Privacy Glitch is a digital art project designed to make these invisible power structures visible. Note: I originally did this work in 2015 but never got around to publ

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