176 Birmingham Mail Website Trackers

Lifting the veil on the surveillance propping up local news.

September 2017

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An A0 poster listing URLs for all the trackers found on a story on the Birmingham Mail website in September 2017, sending data about readers to 3rd party companies who aggregate them to build profiles for advertising and other nefarious purposes. The Mail’s owners, Trinity Mirror, sell the right to place these trackers alongside visible advertising. They can be identified and blocked using a browser plugin like Ghostery.

Download a PDF of the poster.

Part of the Instructions for Humans exhibition at Birmingham Open Media, September - December 2017.

Work produced as part of my BOM Fellowship:

Instructions for Humans Interview: Mark Hancock interviewed me about my exhibition (2017)

Transcripts of Humans: Three months of talking to visitors in a gallery, transcribed for the gallery wall. (2017)

Data Cult: An Instructional Event for Humans. (2017)

Cell Tower Mast For Sympathetic Magic: Sculpture responding to data blackouts in Puerto Rico. (2017)

176 Birmingham Mail Website Trackers: Lifting the veil on the surveillance propping up local news. (2017)

The Black Box: A metaphor for opaque systems. (2017)

Instructions for Humans: A Cargo Cult for Artificial Intelligence - artworks exploring human interactions with machines. (2017)

APHE Human Interfaces conference: I spoke at the Academic Photography in Higher Education conference (2017)

Experimental Capture workshop for BOM: Sharing knowledge on weird cameras at Art & Tech Social. (2017)

Golan Levin's Experimental Capture Workshop: An intensive summer school in Aspen. (2016)

Art in Crisis: Photography project working with homelessness charity Crisis in Birmingham. (2016)

Speculative Cameras at BOM: Fellowship research project into what cameras could be. (2016)

Birmingham Open Media Fellowship: Fellowship at arts organisation at intersection of art, technology and science. (2014)

Instructions for Humans was a three month exhibition comprising of:

Instructions for Humans Interview: Mark Hancock interviewed me about my exhibition (2017)

Transcripts of Humans: Three months of talking to visitors in a gallery, transcribed for the gallery wall. (2017)

Data Cult: An Instructional Event for Humans. (2017)

Cell Tower Mast For Sympathetic Magic: Sculpture responding to data blackouts in Puerto Rico. (2017)

176 Birmingham Mail Website Trackers: Lifting the veil on the surveillance propping up local news. (2017)

The Black Box: A metaphor for opaque systems. (2017)

Instructions for Humans: A Cargo Cult for Artificial Intelligence - artworks exploring human interactions with machines. (2017)

Next art:

Cell Tower Mast For Sympathetic Magic

October 2017: Sculpture responding to data blackouts in Puerto Rico.

Previous art:

The Black Box

September 2017: A metaphor for opaque systems.