The Glass Room Adelaide - MOD.
Welcome to The Glass Room
From the tech boom to tech backlash, our understanding of the digital has become both deeply personal and deeply political. Our desire for convenience has given way to questions about the trade-offs for how much we can control our data and our understanding about how it is used.
The Glass Room is a place to explore these ideas. The objects here bring to life the hidden aspects of everyday technologies and examine how they are changing the way we live. The objects in The Glass Room provide unconventional and unexpected ways of seeing your relationship with your data.
As technology becomes embedded in every part of our lives, The Glass Room helps you look deeper into the digital: Does your personal data say everything about you, or is it an imperfect portrait? Do more tools, apps, and information make us better and more efficient, or are we giving away more than we want in return? What goes on behind the screens and inside the black boxes of the devices we interact with everyday? If we knew, would we still sign in or click ‘I agree’? How much trust do users invest in big tech companies, and what can be done if that trust is broken?
Having toured Europe and the US, The Glass Room will be traveling across the world to Australia for the first time. With our partners MOD. Adelaide, the objects presented bring to life the hidden aspects of everyday technologies and examine how they are changing the way we live.
Exhibits
The featured works are in collaboration with artists such as Dries Depoorter, Aram Bartholl, Kiki Mager, Bengt Sjölén, Danja Vasiliev, Sebastian Schmieg, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Tega Brain / Sam Lavigne, Kyriaki Goni, Klaas Diersman, Critical Engineering Working Group, and La Loma.
The exhibition also features Open the Box which examines the journeys that our personal data takes. The digital exhibits include videos, animations, visualizations, audios and interactive apps to explore the themes.
You can also pick up a the Data Detox Kit from the Data Detox Bar which offers everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
At the Data Detox Bar you can pick up your own Data Detox Kit offering everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
Welcome to The Glass Room Adelaide hosted by MOD which opened its doors 1st Febraury 2022!
Google Society, developed by LaLoma, visualises the depth and reach of Google and its suite of 295 products and services. It asks you to think about how far Google extends into your daily life, and, in turn, to the billions of other people’s lives who rely on the same products you do.
The Fertility Chip, developed by LaLoma, depicts a remote-control birth control. In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave nearly £8 million to Microchips Biotech Inc, to develop a microchip to control a woman's fertility. Are the world’s problems best be solved by technology?
Forgot Your Password, created by Aram Bartholl, showcases eight volumes containing 4.7 million LinkedIn clear text user passwords, from the 2012 leak, printed in alphabetical order. Visitors are invited to look up their own password.
The digital exhibits include animations, visualizations, audios and interactive apps to explore the themes.
At the Data Detox Bar you can pick up your own Data Detox Kit offering everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
Welcome to The Glass Room Adelaide hosted by MOD which opened its doors 1st Febraury 2022!