Selected archive · Information design and installation · 2012

Body of Evidence

A pre-Snowden installation that made the permanence of publicly available personal data impossible to ignore.

Role: Concept · Information design · Exhibition
Recognition: TEDx Grahamstown · 2012

Body of Evidence installation with long suspended dot-matrix profiles filling a gallery

01 · Context

Support a TEDx Grahamstown conversation about access, opportunity and privacy by revealing how much could be learned about a person without joining their network.

02 · Response

Publicly available traces from each delegate were printed on near-extinct dot-matrix paper and suspended as long, ghostly profiles through a visible framework.

03 · Why it matters

Created before the Snowden revelations, the installation gave an emerging digital concern a tangible scale — intimate information made public, persistent and difficult to escape.

Private Public Access title printed across suspended paper — 01The argument reduced to three unavoidable words

Rows of public profiles printed on continuous dot-matrix paper — 02Personal fragments become a confronting visual field

Tall ribbons of continuous stationery carrying Body of Evidence profiles — 03A fragile material gives permanent data a physical form

Wide view of the Body of Evidence installation and suspended paper framework — 04The exposed structure mirrors the exposed information

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