How am I tracked? What do they know about me?

To see my locations and where I have been I went to an easy source; to the photos on my phone. The photo app (on the IPhone at least) tracks the exact time and location where you took a specific photo. Depending on how much you magnify the map thats linked to your photos through the ‘Photos” app – the bigger you magnify the the more accurate of a location you will get on a certain photo.

What data is collected about you?

A lot of things could be seen and told just by collection data off of photos of you, more then you could even know; from what route you walk to work everyday on, how you look, where you go often, who your friends are and how they look like, stuff you have, stuff you like, where other people who you know live, the events you attend, whether you have an pet or not, whether your friend has a pet or not, and the list could go on – it obviously depends how much and what kind of photos you take, however one singe photo can provide a lot of extra information next to its visual clues.

+ an interesting article I found on the above mentioned

WEEK 1, Aug. 30 - Sept. 6

WEEK 2, Sept. 7 - 13

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NOTES FROM CLASS:
- "methodology" : methodology is the systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study.
- "ethnography" : is the study of people in their own environment through the use of methods such as participant observation and face-to-face interviewing.





















       

NOTES FROM CLASS:
- (as designers) we are trying to make the world a better place
-"charity starts at home"
- who defines human beings? -> because not everyone was considered a human being in history
- you can not talk about design without talking about who was allowed to participate in it + that is why there is a lot out there on what white male artists have done/achieved in art history... you need to
go centuries back
- intersectionality "something might not just be a gender only problem but also a race problem"
- "terror"-s meaning:
- "act up" movement - + a video I found that talks about the HIV crisis in regards to today's corona virus pandemic


- "positionality" : "is the social and political context that creates your identity in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability status. Positionality also describes how your identity influences, and potentially biases, your understanding of and outlook on the world."

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WEEK 3, Sept. 14 - 21

Anthropology - bc we will look at history

Ethnology - we'll do this with observation (the study of the characteristics of different peoples and the differences and relationships between them.

we have to be objective

but we have our own archive

- the dilemma of observing people --> (they know they are being observed, therefore tend to act unnatural subconsciously) the chance of how much of their reaction is natural --> data
- "observation is wonder"
- qualitative // quantitative
- observation = opinion --> with sense and senses
- registration vs. interpretation

(specific words create specific reactions --> case studies)

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IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT.

+ I think it's important to note that the man in the video wants to help with the whole mask debate that is going around, his message is to wear the mask bc its better to be safe then sorry

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NOTES FROM CLASS:
- are you aware that you are being tracked? do you consciously let them track you?
- is it criminal for them to track?
- "its not criminal for us to manipulate them bc they are manipulating us"
- "categories are in language"

Daphne Telling presentation notes:
- "we say we live in an era of change"
- IVN Nature Education --> examples of data they collect: how healthy is the ecosystem the tree lives in, what kind of bugs it has near, etc.
- use data to make a prediction
--> make a point
--> verify our hypothesis
--> make an impact
- Earth Overshoot Day (example was provided)
- "data helps us look at the world with a cool head"
- the contact that kids nowadays have with nature is way less then 20 years ago...
- chicken has more more legal right to outside space then a child (example was provided)
+ the evolution of peppered moths during the industrial revolution
- "high/low emission"
- "urbanisation"        
- moral dilemmas: whats right vs. whats wrong
- adjust your 'stuff' to who you want to convince, but do combine it with who you are

lesson plan - Week 3 — September 17, 12:30 to 14:30

— Identity Politics
Read/watch and analyse The Queer Art of Failure; Anarchism; influence of media on identity.
- Read in class: Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure, pp 1 – 5;
- In class exercise: what is the difference between artist/designer’s privilege vs objectification?
- Artist’s privilege vs objectification; examples Aernout Mik ‘cardboard walls’, Tania Bruguera ‘tatlin’s whisper’ (havana version).
— Research methods: qualitative vs quantitative
- In class exercise: implicit bias test.

Preparation: read bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking, pp 185 – 188;

Homework: Bell Hooks, pages 185-188

Notes from Mariana Abramovic Video
- performance: is mental and physical construction that the performer makes in a specific time in a space in front of an audience - and then energy dialogue happens
- the audience and performer make the piece together
- in theatre blood is ketchup, in performance it is the material and the knife is the tool
- can’t reverse performance —> can’t do it twice ever
- “something stays in the memory”
- “relation was one to on”
- “immaterial”:
- “ you go though this whole range of being bored, being angry, being completely frustrated, not finishing the amount of rice you’re counting. And then this unbelievable
amount of piece you get when satisfying work is finished.”
- “we are always doing things we like in our lives. And this is why you’re not changing. You do things in life, its just nothing happens when you do things the same way.”

Notes from Introduction to Human Behavioural Biology Video
- nature and nurture affect each other
- sometimes the stuff that goes on in your body can dramatically influence your brain”, “sometimes what’s going on in your head will affect every single outpost in your body”
- intertwining/interconnections between physiology and behaviour
- huge, messy process of trying to make sense of the biology of human social behaviour
- we categorise - take a continua and break it into boundaries because it makes it easier to store information, to remember, and to evaluate = however these boundaries can differ (ex: between cultures/languages)
- cultural/language differences make it hard for us to understand ‘boundaries’ in another culture/language + the case study of ghosts + the study of the fish
- danger: when you are paying too much attention to categories you can’t differentiate two facts that fall under the same category (example how much difference is there between a 5 and a 6? Not much, but how much difference is there between them when you think about the Dutch grading system?)
- when you pay too much attention to (categorical) boundaries you don’t see the big picture
- “objectivity”
- what “sensory stimulation” caused what neutrons to be activates = to certain behaviours
- “stimuli”
- “give me a child at birth from any background, and let me control the total environment in which he is raised, and I will turn him into anything I wish him to be - whether doctor, lawyer, beggar, or thief.” - John Watson 1912 (one of the founding fathers of the school of psychology called behaviourism)
- that behaviour can be explained by solely by understanding reward and punishment - BF Skinner 1950
- “pathological”
- “frontal lobotomies”
- ovulation cycles synchronising —> bodies can communicate with each other without us even trying
- compared to animals we are using the same physiology but in a way that is unrecognisable

lesson plan
Second part – information about transferring information:
There are a couple of things important when you transfer information.

The information – what is the core of your story? What is important?
The assumed outcome – what do you want to achieve?
The third party – who is your audience/ receiver?
What is there relation to the information?
Location – where will the transfer take place? Is it determined or can you decide?
The way of conveying – which method suits best?

We will discuss these 5 points and we will be looking at, and trying out, tools that can help you during presentations. This will be both on a substantive level and on a physical or mental level.

WEEK 2, Sept. 7 - 13

WEEK 1, Aug. 30 - Sept. 6

WEEK 3, Sept. 14 - 21

Homework: Bell Hooks, pages 185-188

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