Multimedia
In collaboration with the Institutional Research and Data Governance Office at the University of Toronto, I supported the development of a new public-facing website addressing how student data is collected, protected, and used.
Through interviews and design demos, we address common student questions and concerns through a single, accessible portal targeting over 100k students across 3 campuses and 7 affiliate colleges.
You can view the website here.
This month I had the chance to visit Salt Galata, a contemporary art space occupying a former bank building in the Karaköy district of Istanbul. This work by Richard Whitby titled The Lost Ones was on, showing residency status assessments being carried out by an unforgiving, disembodied voice.
Through dark humour, it highlights the casual violence of bureaucratic processes that increasingly reduce complex lived realities data points and scores, and abstractions of eligibility, compliance, and risk, making visible how technical processes of classification are bound up with questions of belonging and exclusion, highlighting the politics of datafication and its impact on everyday life.
Uninvited Guests is a short film that explores the frictions between a man and his smart home.