The use of data for art can take the sting out of “Big Brother,” data artist Laurie Frick argues. Frick, who uses information gleaned from apps and personal journals to create her works and was artist-in-residence at the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit, is among a rising coterie of artists who see data as a “metaphor for the human experience,” or more specifically, according to Frick, “an essential idea of who we are.” She tells The Atlantic, “I think people are at a point where they are sick of worrying about who is or isn’t tracking their data. I say, run toward the data. Take your data back and turn it into something meaningful.”
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