Your Data Body (ISEA 2024)

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Oliver, Marilène
  • Smallwood, Scott

• Abstract (from author, in quotation marks):
  "This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surrounding the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-ex-panding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to challenge how we interact with the data of others, questioning the etymology of the word data, meaning “given” and questioning whether in many cases, data is rather “taken”. Using the gaming device of moving through a sequence of scenes, users first encounter open-access anonymized scan data and later donated data given with active and ongoing consent of the subject. Each scene situates the medical scan data within LiDAR scans, is accompanied by poetic elements, and has a complex sonic composition that combines field re-cordings, choral composition and data sonification as a way to situate the data geographically, temporally and emotion-ally."

• Date created

  2024-06-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Virtual reality
  • personal data
  • data consent
  • data privacy
  • sound
  • composition
  • LiDAR scanning
  • data sonification
  • International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
  • ISEA 2024

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-tm3r-a155

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International