CPDP 2021: Privacytopia Art Program

As part of the side events at the CPDP2021 online edition, Privacy Salon has made an incredible art program showcasing film screenings (such as the short film series 'Screening Surveillance'), round tables and artist talks related to topics of privacy and data protection. Discover the program below!

Featured artists and projects

• Faisal Hussein (UK) with the exhibition ‘Suspect Objects Suspect Subjects’, which is currently shown in London and will be digitally translated in a virtual CPDP exhibition space.

• Yasmine Boudiaf (UK) will become the Artist in Residence in a collaboration between Privacy Salon and Comest, the UNESCO Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. She will present one of her current projects “AI Tattoo” an indigenous AI project.

• Emmanuel Van der Auwera (BE) will become the Artist in Residence in a collaboration between Privacy Salon and Eden/Europol. He will mainly focus on future scenario’s of crime and their relation to data protection and privacy.

• HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE) presents highlights of its online program, some of which were produced for its festival “Spy On Me #2 – Artistic Manoeuvres for the Digital Present“ in March 2020.

• Jonas Staal (BE) presents a pre-trial at the CPDP main program of his Collectivize Facebook project where he considered the application as a public domain under ownership and control of its users.

• In the ongoing series of work ‘Art for Machines’ Martine Stig (NL) developed an application for meeting online, looking from the perspective of machines. During CPDP, you can discover the platform that blends face recognition software with video-meetup spaces. It enables the user to customize a biometric self and meet with other biometric avatars online.

• Frederik De Wilde (BE) starts to develop an augmented reality exhibition related to CCTV and surveillance issues. At his CPDP studio he will present ‘Next Nature’ a project in development about disruptive camouflage for AI systems applied to insects.

• Marijn Bril (NL) was chosen by the Belgian art center Werktank and the Dutch art platform Impakt to come to CPDP as an artist in residence to meet with speakers to discuss her work and its future developments.

• Constant Dullaart‘s (NL) practice reflects on the broad cultural and social effects of communication and image processing technologies, from performatively distributing artificial social capital on social media to completing a staff-pick Kickstarter campaign for a hardware start-up called DulltechTM.