February 19 - March 18, 2020
Rische’s installation, “Intelligence,” utilizes interactive technology to call attention to privacy and data collection. Viewers lose their connectivity once inside a centralized Faraday cage while hidden messages pulled from downloaded personal data lurk on the walls. By encouraging the viewer to cage themselves in an effort to block all signals to and from their smart phone, Rische invites conceptual connections between information contained on your personal devices, imprisonment (willing or not), the lengths a person has to go through to protect themselves from corporate and government tracking, and the removal of oneself from participation in normal society. Rische pulls inspiration from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and more recently Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Zuboff echos Huxley’s concerns 87 years later as we voluntarily yield to “ignorance, learned helplessness, inattention, inconvenience, habituation, or drift.”
Lecture: March 5, 2020 | 1–1:45 pm
Art Café
The Art Gallery at Collin College
2800 E Springcreek Pkwy
Plano, 75074 TX
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