Exhibition Fish
We worked on the subject of data privacy. In particular, we investigated the apparent discrepancy between people's online data sharing practices and their concerns about potential negative outcomes - concerns that seemed, at first glance, to contradict their actual behavior.
Through our research, we discovered that students in Munich tended to share their data despite their worries, in order to gain benefits such as access to certain online services. These benefits, therefore, played a crucial role in fostering the so-called Privacy Paradox.
The act of sharing data to receive benefits was viewed as a transaction. However, unlike purchasing at a grocery store where one trades real money for tangible goods, the payment with data for online services was a highly unseen and intangible transaction that often wasn't given much thought. Thus, we were curious to see what would occur if this transaction was made visible. That, among other queries, was what we sought to explore with our project.
Keeping this in mind, we decided to move away from purely scientific analysis to see if we could investigate these questions through artistic work.
TEAM
- Renato Coppi
- Franz Xaver Gillmeyer
- Annalena Huber
- Joshua Sharon Neumann
- Juan Esteban Suarez
- Paul Andrei Sava
TUTORS
- Eva Biehl
- Daniel Schwinger