First thoughts

Just quickly did this to visualise my title concept. >

'Don't forget your code' will be my starting point for this project. 

What triggered this was as I was trying to think how I would progress from the last project (purge) I was trawling through blogs and websites on data visualisation and glitch art (research will be in another post) I went back to Facebook as one of many frequent moments of procrastination and out of habit to see if anything interesting has happened, because you never know, it might! So anyway, the first thing I saw was a baby scan. A BABY SCAN!




Firstly it's fascinating because what is an ultrasound? visualising your baby through what looks like data 'sound or other vibrations having an ultrasonic frequency, particularly as used in medical imaging.' so it's a visual representation of your child, ok... but why are people now sharing these on Facebook to hundreds of acquaintances and possibly even strangers. The first image that future person has is now accessible by all. So from someone sharing that photo, I've just seen an unborn child of a person i've never met and likely to never meet, Weird huh?


So the working title 'Don't Forget Your Code' is referring to how the majority of our lives are now online, interactions are predominately more digital and our experience as human and machine are changing. The line between the two becoming blurred and are we prepared for this? Are we aware of what the consequences will be? And are we teaching people how to be safe, freedom, surveillance, etc etc... don't want to rant. 

The parody of the sentence 'don't forget your coat' (like mums would shout on a chilly morning), it's almost a warning to be aware, and to draw attention to how common it is now to share every detail without hesitation.

Right now I don't know where this is going, but I know it angers, intrigues and fascinates me so hopefully that's a good enough starting point.