FinalProject – JakeB

Background: Most internet users have probably noticed that the ads they see are targeted towards their interests. They’re made this way to be more appealing to each viewer. The problem with this method is that it paints a distorted picture of what people actually are. Each person is seen only as the items that they might buy.  #notamine seeks to illustrate what these abstract portraits might look like.

Link to the Facebook page here.

Link to the website here.

Explanation:

This project has three main components:

1. The artwork – these are the actual portraits of people made using their Amazon recommendations and a vector trace of their face. To avoid hypocrisy, I asked each subject for the images used in the portraits as opposed to participating in data mining, the exact issue I’m trying to combat.
2. The Facebook page – this is a page created to serve as a place to contact me in order to request portraits as well as voice their opinions on data mining and its implications. This is the place that employs crowdsourcing and many to many communication to stick it to the “man” that is using our data without our consent.
3. The website – this serves as a gallery for the existing portraits. As more accumulate, they would all be archived on this page and viewable at any time.

Credits: the idea was all my own. My current subjects are Sophia Crocket-current, Andrew Wilson, Katherine Dube, and myself.

Budget: 

$19.99/mo for Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator and Photoshop)

$20/mo for boosting posts on Facebook to reach a wider audience.

$0 labor, it’s an art project that I don’t want to make money from.

total: $40.00/month