You Are Not Beautiful - Notes to the Void

Walk This Way – Posture Surveillance

January 24, 2021 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Article, Critical Design, Design, Noise, Speculative, surveillance

During my time in China in 2018, face recognition technology was outwardly celebrated by the media and inwardly concerning for the general population. In the

Jip van Leeuwenstein: Surveillance Exclusion

September 8, 2020 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Critical Design, Design, Noise

Human friendly face obfuscation for avoiding AI face recognition and tracking. Jip van Leeuwenstein: Surveillance Exclusion

Conspiracy Capitalism: From SEO To Sandy Hook – Part 2

April 29, 2020 Robby Collins Alternative Design, Conspiracy Capitalism, Design, Noise, Retrospeculative, Retrospeculative Design

What would you do to get those clicks on your website? It depends on the era. As I said in Part I, in the early

Sheng Lam: Alternative Social Medias

April 21, 2020 Robby Collins Alternative Design, Design, Retrospeculative, Retrospeculative Design

Beautiful reimagining of 90’s products in a parallel world where Social Media happened early and without internet. Social IRL. Ordering prints for myself here. Sheng

Conspiracy Capitalism: From SEO To Sandy Hook – Part 1

April 9, 2020 Robby Collins Article, Conspiracy Capitalism, Noise

Sitting here on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Perpignan, during the Coronavirus lockdown, I’ve been reminded about some thoughts I’d been having about Conspiracy Capitalism.

Nudged to the Right: A YouTube Algorithm Tale

February 19, 2020 Robby Collins Article, Design, Noise

Every few days I check in on a few Facebook pages and Twitter accounts associated with the Irish Alt-Right and/or patriots. It’s a bad habit

Anti-Facial Recognition Arrests in Russia

February 15, 2020 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Noise

Artist/activists in Russia are arrested for wearing making which subverts facial recognition software. They REALLY want to see your face… https://observers.france24.com/en/20200214-russian-artists-facial-recognition-makeup-arrested Previously: https://www.euronews.com/2017/06/23/moscow-artist-arrested-for-wearing-a-virtual-reality-headset Adam Harvey’s

Google Maps Hacks – Simon Weckert

February 13, 2020 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Noise

Google Maps Hacks is a performance and installation by the Berlin artist Simon Weckert. Consisting of a hand cart containing 99 smart phones, running Google