„Out of Control“ in Bregenz

We are surrounded by digital data, and the sources from which this data is generated are becoming increasingly numerous. It doesn’t matter whether we interact with other people in social networks, feed search engines with our questions, send and receive text messages or e-mails, view websites or upload photos, pull out customer cards or control heating from a distance, connect to even the most inconspicuous objects on the Internet of Things or have ourselves filmed from a game console, enter a destination or measure our pulse, place ourselves on the scales or have the steps counted.

“Big Data” – large and complex amounts of data are searched, analysed and combined in a short time. “Clouds” – in huge server farms we store our personal data so that it can be accessed from anywhere. Authorities, companies and others intervene – they know what we like, where we are, who we are. Surveillance cameras recognize human faces, sensors measure our actions, systems crack our passwords in fractions of a second and kidnap our digital self.

This exhibition is the beginning of a cooperation with the cultural office of the city of Bregenz to make the important topics of the future accessible to a wide audience in jointly developed formats.