Here’s one that reflects our Privacy Epiphany trends article: Packet Garden Packet is a system that captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore. They say:
To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an ‘HTTP plant’ is grown. If you share some files via eMule, a ‘Peer to Peer plant’ is grown, and so on. None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it’s used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of ‘walk-in graph’ uniquely shaped by the way you use the internet.
The art project has been developed by Julian Oliver and sponsored by Arnolfini.
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[via Richard Banks]
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