Grace Arnott- Hayes

‘Ignorance is bliss’ has never been more appropriate to describe the relationship between individual and the world of the digital. When we use services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google, we pay for the privilege by divulging personal information which thought of the consequences of this transaction. 

In the age of Surveillance Capitalism, our online selves are ever more exposed to manipulation infiltrating every part of lives both digitally and physically. This has become ever more prevalent through the 2018 Data Breach of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. 

My Practise looks at systems of play as a engagement tool through the use of gamification. Taking complex and provocative subject matters and constructing a situation which makes the communication accessible and simple. My practise is very much situated in the world of the digital and technology honing in on the tensions between privacy/security and transparency.  Entering the realms of Digital Politics.