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The Art Project
Lost in the cloud?
OmniPresence is an art project created by the performance group
Kassandra Production to dig into central questions of privacy, freedom
and control in our digital age.
And the deeper we dug, the more absurd it got.
Most of us tend to live in blissful ignorance about what happens with
our personal data - the new currency of our time. We have created a new
normal in which we willingly give away our personal information in
return for convenient apps, seamless user experiences, connectedness
and likes. Big data harvesting is to a large extent fuelled by our own
vanity and basic instincts. We have become users, addicts, bio-banks
and cash cows, controlled and manipulated by big business. And we’re stuck.
How did we get here? What is the impact on our free will, when privacy
becomes a commodity? What happens to free choice, when our opinions are
shaped by snack media and echo chambers? How do these invisible
mechanisms affect modern democracy?
With OmniPresence we put forward the questions that need to be asked.
And we shed light on the fact that privacy is gone; that we are public
by default – private through action.
Digital self-defence
Remain calm. Avoid panic. Breathe!
Observe and question your reality.
Check your privacy settings.
Make a web cam cover and a signal jammer pouch for your smartphone.
Break free of your echo chamber – like something you loathe,
engage with people you disagree with.
Digital detox: Go off line, make yourself a shot of fresh made juice.
Use a VPN and encryption software to transmit sensitive data.
Counterstrike ignorance - seek knowledge.
Go to crypto parties in your local area.
Discuss the right to privacy across generations and interests.
Support ethical alternatives and indie-nets; go peer-to-peer, keep third parties out.
Troll politicians online and demand knowledge about privacy violations.
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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
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The Project
OmniPresence is a strange hybrid of intervention art, performance
installation, awareness campaign and mobile crypto party. It is an
“omni-channel art project” that unfolds as:
- An interactive boot camp in and around the mobile ‘OmniBus’.
- A free online webinar via live streaming.
- Virtual storytelling about our corporate undercover identity as OmniPresence Consulting.
- A 5-minute film and a play based on the performance, as part of the
Plurality of Privacy in 5-minute plays (P3M5) commissioned by
Goethe-Institut, Washington DC.
OmniPresence is an interactive art project with the ambition to
intervene and engage with our modern society. We are trying to grasp
the complexity of a reality in which everything is connected in a
seemingly chaos. All parameters of the art project - the OmniBus,
the performance, the text, music, video, live stream, film and
virtual storytelling – have been developed simultaneously in order
to reflect the complexity of our reality.
Links
Goethe-Institut, Washington DC, P3M5 + direct link to eventpage
Warehouse 9, Wanderlost Digital Art Festival
Bora Bora
CPH Stage
Musikhuset Aarhus
Musikhuset Aarhus, debate
Kassandra Production
Credits
The performance material is created in a devised process between
Annika B. Lewis, Kristofer Krarup and Anne Hübertz Brekne.
Idea and mis-en-scène: Annika B. Lewis
Performers: Annika B. Lewis and Kristofer Krarup
Dramaturge: Anne Hübertz Brekne
Set designer: Filippa Berglund
Music and video: Anders Krøyer and Jens Mønsted, guest appearance Steen Dongo
Internet architect: Jonas Smedegaard
Web design: Siri Reiter and Jonas Smedegaard
Lighting consultant: Morten Ladefoged
PR and marketing: Jakob D.A. Nicolaisen and Anne Hübertz Brekne
Stage hand: Jimmi Nørgaard
Set construction: Lumen
Costumes: Bodil Buonaventzen
Production manager: Karen Nordentoft
Production assistant: Camilla Rasmussen
Photos: Jens Peter Engedal and Mukul Ranjan
Graphic design/layout: Helge Dürrfeld/TheArtCom
Film teaser: Christoffer Brekne
Administration and PR: Kassandra Production
PRODUCED BY Kassandra Production in co-production with Bora Bora and in
collaboration with Musikhuset Aarhus, IT University of Copenhagen,
Goethe-Institut Washington DC, Performing Arts Platform, CAVI, CPH STAGE
and others.
SUPPORTED BY the Danish Arts Foundation, Bikubenfonden,
Oda & Hans Svenningsens Fond, the City of Aarhus and the City of Copenhagen.
THANK YOU Board members of Kassandra Production, Nikolaj Sonne, Peter Kofod,
Bora Bora crew, Mimi Lund, Louise Kirkegaard, Gitte Skytte, John Moletress,
Wilfried Eckstein, Sylvia Blume, Scandinavian Congress Center,
Theatre Republique, Kjell Yngve Petersen, Morten Lervig, Between Music,
PROSA/Privacy Help Desk and others.
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