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Author: David Bola
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Hi Joana, glad to talk with you today. First, how would you describe the relationship between arts and research in your work?
For me, it's quite obvious: all the projects that I do have a strong research background, but their output is more artistic. Every time I start a new project, I think about the output, the aesthetics that the project will have.
These aesthetics also guide me through the things that I have to research. Art and research inform each other in every step of the process. They are very intertwined.
The Dating Brokers: investigating information traffic in the dating world
How did you start working on the "Dating Brokers" project?
I've been dealing with the way data was being transacted, surveillance at large (corporative surveillance especially), and how the data was being sold, commercialized and exchanged between different actors. But I never really bought data myself, never on the dark side. I thought it would be an interesting point to put yourself on, to try to acquire data and see how this works.
I just Googled "buy dat-", and somehow I made a mistak...
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