cursor watching
Art work from Spencer Chang
Featured at the CODAME ART+TECH Festival (2024) #Essence
Surveillance involves a kind of watching that invokes fear, while seeing one another with full attention is called "the rarest and purest form of generosity" by Simone Weil. When we use the web, we inhabit a world that exists simultaneously within these two extremes: our data extracted by platforms and institutions while we watch love unfold between strangers.
Situating visitors in a position of surveillance, cursor watching reveals itself, upon closer attention, to be a collection of live windows onto corners of the internet.
Presenting our everyday internet activity as a collective performance, the site serves as an ode to the diverse life unfolding in every moment on the internet and positions the attention we pay one another on these internet corners as paths for liberation.
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Learn more about cursor watching on cursorwatch.ing or join our ART+TECH Festival (2024) #Essence