CPDP-2022 cover image by artist Taitzel Ticalos

For each edition of CPDP, Privacy Salon invites an artist to develop a cover image for the brochure. In 2022 we invited the artist Taietzel Ticalos. She is a visual artist based in Bucharest, Romania, working on topics such as security, data and bigtech. 

Her current practice researches the transmutation of reality into the virtual space and contemplates the development of digital narrations. She focuses on sexual objectification, social media as consumer media, digital performance and digital reenactment. Between 2014-2016 she coordinated - together with feminist artist Gabriela Mateescu - the mobile group Nucleu 0000, an unbound collective of young Romanian artists. Since 2019, they jointly manage the digital art platform spam-index.com. 

The cover image of this program is a selection of stills from the video Shapes of Regret. 

The original art video ‘Shapes of Regret’ was made in 2018 for the exhibition ‘Where do we go from here? ’ curated by the group Aici Acolo (Translated: Here There), which had a focus on the practice of mapping. At that time, Taitzel was going through the 2006 AOL data leaked files of user’s searches. A few months earlier the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was revealed. Her interest was obviously directed toward data leaks which were followed by a new type of apologies by CEOs. The apologetic audios came from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Kazuo Hirai from Sony, Alex Cruz from British Airways and Marissa Mayer. The artist mapped these I’m sorry’s on different flat surfaces through a sound effector which produces abstract 3D forms. 

Check her website here: https://taietzelticalos.com