The infrastructure Is Sensing You: Make People Question their Surroundings

Posted: October 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The other day in Geneva I stumbled on this Obey Giant sticker placed in a public bathroom. Obey Giant is a street art campaign and an experiment in phenomenology by artist Shepard Fairey. Its sole purpose is to make people question their surroundings. Even though it might not designed to question ubicomp, the experiment is extremely relevant to the discourse on seams and invisibility created by technologies. Funnily, a couple of days before in Schipol I spotted a sign highlighting the every use of the infrastructure was recorded.
You are under Andre the Giant's surveillance Every use is recorded
The infrastructure senses you: street art campaign (left), real-world case (right).

Relation to my thesis: Linking Andre the Giant to seamful design.

One Comment on “The infrastructure Is Sensing You: Make People Question their Surroundings”

  1. 1 Dean Eckles said at 10:30 pm on October 8th, 2007:

    A play on this into marketing:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/deaneckles/1501090192/