PINK SHEET METHOD
How nonsensical is data collection? Check out the Pink Sheet Method, a playful way of getting people to think about what happens with their data.
By filling out this form, in triplicate, with meaningless acronyms and non-sensical logic, the artists invite the public to take part in the big data shuffle. Thought about as a three step art event, "Pink Sheet Method, is a product of Thickear, an art collective started in London in 2012. More info can be found here http://thickear.co.uk/
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From their website:
“Pink Sheet Method”, encourages the public to judge the value of their own data against the value of the art work itself. thickear’s triptychal response to Data as Culture involves procedures of data collection, exhibition, re-examination and validation. Taking place over three locations, Pink Sheet Method investigates economies of data exchange, and considers how transaction is employed to create perceived but oblique value. PSM brokers data through exchange, accruing and rendering. The credibility and limitations of analytics – or data fracking – is questioned through a series of performed, authoritative gestures that transform information into commodity and/or knowledge.
Event #1 White Sheet - 29 and 30 March 2014 - City Fictions, FutureEverything Festival, Manchester A series of data gathering consultancies in which participants are issued with limited edition prints created through an audit of personal data sharing. Presented at FutureEverything as part of City Fictions, a speculative near future city. Institution: information hub. Event #2 Pink Sheet - 11 April 2014 - The Open Data Institute, London Carbonless paper copies of the original document are revealed through an office intervention at the Open Data Institute. Event #3 Blue Sheet - June 2014 - Lighthouse, Brighton During a final performance presentation at Lighthouse, thickear share newly acquired knowledge attained through Pink Sheet Method and expose the last remnants of the data.