Paolo Cirio
‘Obscurity’
“This artwork is composed of over fifteen million mug-shots of people arrested in the U.S. It obfuscated the criminal records of mug-shot websites by cloning them and shuffling their data. A participatory feature lets people judge the individual arrested by deciding to keep or remove their data from the mug-shot websites. Obscurity explores the emotional underpinning of unflattering personal information and reputation exposed on the Internet. Beyond the use of criminal records for the social experiment and the performative hack, the project promotes a legal Right to Remove personal information from search engines in U.S. The Obscurity artwork deployed strategies that are oriented to problem-solving as a form of Internet social art practice. “
More here: https://www.paolocirio.net/work/obscurity/
