Light On Data

​With fibre optic cables, data travels as light. Resisting surveillance and reclaiming our agency around what and how our information is monitored, how would it look like to selectively share information to the cable, and to do so at the slowness we choose? This workshop shares a playful and performative method to critique how normalised ‘continuous data’ capture is in our increasingly technologised environments and neighbourhoods.

​In this workshop, you will be guided to create torch filters. Bringing together collage techniques with visual and textual storytelling through light, we will engage with the topics of emerging technologies, surveillance and civic resistance. We will make designs that you can later project on a stroll outdoors along the fibre optic cables, transferring your ‘data’ to the infrastructure at the speed of light a stroll.

​Led by Angela YT Chan as part of a public infrastructure.