Are You Looking ?
Research and 3D video (2020)
cityscape photogrammetry attention economy 3D video
What does the increasing presence of advertising digital billboards mean for our data, street, cities and collective agency ?
Dezooming from smartphones, this project explores public space as a new field for the economy of attention to expand. Following an in-depth research, the video navigate through several scales of impact. Through this project, I could address some of the issues raised by digital billboards, such as data privacy, bodies computation, ecological footprint, attention quantification and public space ownership.
This video has been realised as part of the collaboration between the KABK and the Research Department of the Dutch Parliament, focussing on AI, language and democracy.
To Go Further
— Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, trans. Barnaby Norman (Cambridge Malden, MA: Polity, 2017)
— Dan Hill, “On the Smart City,” But What Was the Question? (blog), December 29, 2020, https://medium.com/butwhatwasthequestion/on-the-smart-city-or-a-manifesto-for-smart-citizens-instead-7e0c6425f909
— James Williams, Stand out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2018), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004;
— Pub&cité: Quand La Pub Achète Nos Villes, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taQxZHSWs6c
— “Future & Smart Cities | Urban Pamphleteer,” accessed October 15, 2024, http://urbanpamphleteer.org/future-and-smart-cities
— “Blog of Things: Smart Cities en de privatisering van de openbare ruimte,” Bits of Freedom, February 11, 2016, https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2016/02/11/blog-of-things-smart-cities-en-de-privatisering-van-de-openbare-ruimte/
— “Attention: The Common Currency for Media | Lumen Research | JCDecaux,” June 7, 2018, https://www.jcdecaux.com/blog/attention-common-currency-media-lumen-research.