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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

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

LOQ Revisited — Part 2: Lego My Ego

May 31, 2019 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Critical Design, Design

The fundamental requirements of my concept were that it should appear to be another interesting and useful IoT product, but could also harbour unsettling connections

LOQ Revisited — Part 1: Chasing A Bee Inside A Jar

March 18, 2018 Robby Collins Adversarial Design, Critical Design, Design

During my MSc in Interactive Media, I became obsessed with Critical Design. It gave me the language to interpret many of the works that I