The Glass Room Plus
Leeuwarden/Amsterdam/St. Pölten/Adelaide
The exhibition piece “Google and You” already demonstrates how challenging it is to give up Google’s products.
“Google Society” sheds light on this development from another perspective, focusing on the global user network. Information about preferences, habits, locations, interests, and contacts allows conclusions to be drawn about groups, societies, and the world population. What does it mean when all this information is in the hands of one company? Who could better predict or even control the future?
Visitors can view the object from different angles: A mirrored smartphone with the most common Google apps symbolises the beginning of the data stream, which becomes denser and impenetrable through 10 acrylic glass panels. The use of 295 products continuously feeds the complex network with information. Only Google itself can analyse these data volumes and steadily expand its power and influence.
The exhibit is also part of the Glass Room Community Misinformation Edition. La Loma has converted the three-dimensional object into a printable form.
