location: Listening Back
Listening Back is a sounding and listening practice, a Web browser plug-in that sonifies Internet cookies, and a research into the potential of sound to engage contemporary socio-political contexts. For Oscillation ::: from the Mothership, Listening Back will be presented as a multi-channel audio-visual installation that exposes the proliferation of ubiquitous online surveillance. As a sounding strategy for interrupting the visual surface of the browser interface, the real time sonification of Internet tracking cookies provides a non-stop, durational composition. Seamlessly embedded into the Web, automated processes of personal data extraction such as the cookie remain intangible to the surveilled. The relative invisibility of digital surveillance, and the proliferation of consumer modes of online surveillance has both intensified and rendered ambivalent our relationships to being surveyed.
© Andrzej Golc
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer investigating the intersection of sound, technology and political infrastructures through live performance, recording and installation. Research based artistic projects provide sonic experiential platforms to encourage listening as a mode of socio-political investigation and explore what it may contribute to the production of knowledge. She has also released solo records with the Sonic Pieces, Karl Records, Editions Mego, OOH-Sounds, and LINE / Boomkat Editions labels.