meta-surveillance = reversed situation

[Diphusa | digital media & aRT |]

meta4walls, the first of a series of on-line privacy projects by 
Lucas Bambozzi was launched on September 23 at the Videobrasil 
International Electronic Art Festival <http://www.videobrasil.org.br>

meta4walls is an experimental web-project simulating a sort of 
meta-surveillance on the Net. It uses mechanisms widely used to 
collect personal information and other data through forms, cookies 
and questionnaires. The scripts generates automatic feedback that 
appear in the site among some content of interest [most of it comes 
from junk mail].

Inviting the user to visit a range of illicit links or to access 
"secret" information in a displaced context, it exposes the fragility 
of some systems and suggest to the visitors the feeling of being 
observed and having their privacy endangered - as they will 
experience their personal data being collected.

meta4walls is part of the 4 WALLS PROJECT, a research on interactive 
systems dealing with surveillance, appropriation, subversion, 
privacy, power and resistance.

The 4WALLS PROJECT was developed by Lucas Bambozzi during a residency 
at the CaiiA-STAR Centre [UK] from 2000 to 2001.

the project is temporarily available at:
http://www.comum.com/diphusa/meta
Internet Explorer and Flash5 needed! [either on macs and pc's]

t h i s   i s   a   b e t a   v  e r s i o n .   c o m m e n t s   a 
r e   w e l c o m e.

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net-art work by lucas bambozzi
programming:  limbomedia
www.limbomedia.com
part of the 4 WALLS PROJECT by lucas bambozzi
lucas at caiia-star.net
meta4walls at hotmail.com
diphusa at comum.com
http://comum.com/diphusa

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