Over the past years Privacytopia brought issues around privacy and data protection to the broader public through various art exhibitions.
On January 28, the world celebrates Privacy Day, a day in which events are held around the world to recognize the importance of privacy for our human values and fundamental freedoms. This exhibition was an initiative of several institutions who see art as an ideal and precious tool for creating awareness about privacy: Privacy Salon, deBuren, De Markten, European […]
Read moreCurated by artist Bogomir Doringer in support of Brigitte Felderer from the Applied Arts Academy in Vienna, FACELESS was an exhibition exploring a phenomenon present all around us: the fashion of facelessness that first appeared in the creative arts at the beginning of this century and has remained popular since then. The exhibition reminds us of the […]
Read moreThe Search Machine by The Museum presents a series of diptychs of images that circulate online. Vernacular images produced by anonymous performers and images of historicised contemporary art works. In this installed fabel, online depictions of contemporary art works are found algorithmically through formal analogies when introducing images of anonymous performances in a fictional search machine operative in […]
Read moreAt the center of Painted by Numbers Installation are artists, scientists, and activists who provide different perspectives on new algorithmic realities: are algorithms truly rational or do we only perceive them as such? Do they lack transparency? Are algorithms already shaping our cognitive processes? Interview excerpts are arranged according to theme in six channels: Rationality, […]
Read moreWatching You, Watching Me explored the intersection between photography and surveillance. Employing a dynamic range of approaches—from documentary to conceptual practice, from appropriation to street art—10 artists provide a satellite-to-street view of the ways in which surveillance culture blurs the boundaries between the private and public realm. The exhibition looked into how photography can be both […]
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In 2018, Privacy Salon and Muntpunt presented a new edition of The Glass Room Experience (a concept by Tactical Technology Collective). The central theme will be the Internet of Things. Earlier, The Glass Room Experience was also on show in London, New York, Warsaw… The Glass Room Experience explores the companies and mechanisms that make […]
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At the 2019 CPDP Conference, Artist, researcher and curator Bogomir Doringer (Artistic Research PhD, University of Applied Arts Vienna) presented his ongoing project FACELESS that was published by de Gruyter, the book “Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies”. The project looks into a ritual of masking, attached to creative arts in contemporary post-9-11 society. […]
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The exhibition Mensch Maschine touched on elements of machine learning fundaments: the feed, the successes, as well as the failures.
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The Privacytopia Art Program at CPDP showcased exhibitions, film screenings, round tables and artist talks related to topics of privacy and data protection.
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