Privacy focused art show in Plano Texas
I recently received a press release that intrigued me and though might interest you. There is going to be a multi-media art installation focused on modern privacy risks that looks like it could be fun. Here is the release:
“Intelligence: An Art Show About Data Collection” by Sue Anne Rische opens in February.
PLANO, TX – January 2, 2020, / - Multimedia artist Sue Anne Rische announces the art exhibition “Intelligence: An Art Show About Data Collection” at The Arts Gallery in Plano, TX. The show will be on view from Wednesday, February 19 – Wednesday, March 18, 2020. An “Art Café” lecture will take place Thursday, March 5: 1-1:45pm with a closing reception later in the afternoon from 4-7pm.
Rische's installation, “Intelligence,” utilizes interactive technology to call attention to privacy and data collection. Viewers lose their connectivity once inside a centralized Faraday cage while a hidden message lurks on the walls. By encouraging the viewer to cage themselves in an effort to block all signals to and from their smart phone, Rische invites conceptual connections between information contained on your personal devices, imprisonment (willing or not), the lengths a person has to go through to protect themselves from corporate and government tracking, and the removal of oneself from participation in normal society. Rische pulls inspiration from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and more recently Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Zuboff echos Huxley's concerns 87 years later as we voluntarily yield to “ignorance, learned helplessness, inattention, inconvenience, habituation, or drift.”
Sue Anne Rische lives and works in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. She earned her Bachelor's Degree from Texas Tech University and her Master's Degree from the University of Washington and has shown in several countries including Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and England. Sue Anne has been an art professor for over 24 years and teaches innovation in her foundational art classes. She has been actively creating and showing her privacy-based work for five years. More information can be found on her website: www.sueannerische.com.