Metalab – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Big Poop Data (.com) https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/big-poop-data/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:51:43 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=2502

Robert Miller (AT), Nico Rameder (AT), Daniel Wetzelhütter (AT), Max Wolschlager (AT)

The toilet at Metalab in Vienna is the epicenter of the Big Poop Data project.

Robert Miller, Nico Rameder, Daniel Wetzelhütter and Max Wolschlager equipped their crapper with a shitload of sensors as a means of gathering information about WC-goers’ use of toilet paper and water, as well as the average length of time they take to do their business. The purveyors of Big Poop Data intend this as a critical commentary on the increasingly pervasive obsession with digital data-gathering, and as an appeal to safeguard our digital privacy.

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