The New Organs (2018)
Video archive, dataset, single channel video (10.10min).
Project graphic. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne- New Organs, 2018.’ Image: Sam Lavigne.
Is the internet listening in on you? Having weird experiences with online ads? Contribute your story to the New Organs Archive.
The New Organs gathers, archives and investigates personal experiences and theories of corporate digital surveillance. Made in collaboration with Sam Lavigne, the project began with a public call for stories about people’s weird experiences with online ads — ads that seem to know too much — as well as their theories of why they might be seeing them.
We received over 1000 responses and turned these stories into an online video archive detailing the rise of media systems driven by artificial intelligence.
What does the rise of surveillance capitalism feel like?
The New Organs gathers, archives and investigates personal experiences and theories of corporate digital surveillance. Made in collaboration with Sam Lavigne, the project began with a public call for stories about people’s weird experiences with online ads — ads that seem to know too much — as well as their theories of why they might be seeing them.
We received over 1000 responses and turned these stories into an online video archive detailing the rise of media systems driven by artificial intelligence.
What does the rise of surveillance capitalism feel like?
Screenshot of video archive. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne- New Organs, 2018.’
Using these stories as a starting point, we also made a short film that investigates the details of how internet companies track, exploit, target and manipulate us in an attempt to understand how surveillance capitalism operates.
Still from an interview with Kashmir Hill in The New Organs. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne- New Organs, 2018.’
PRESS
CREDITS
Made in collaboration with Sam Lavigne.
The New Organs was commissioned by Mozilla.
EXHIBITIONS
Surveillance: From Vision to Data
The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sept 21 - Jun 23 2024
Fun Palace
C2 Space, OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen
October 22 - December 31, 2019