AuthorBerra Yilmaz

Imagine rushing to campus for another 8:30 a.m. class, unaware that a strand of your hair has fallen while you’re on the TTC. Before you know it, a stranger has picked it up, reconstructed a detailed 3D portrait of your face using your hair’s DNA, and put it on display in a gallery. You never consented to this likeness, yet your genetic identity has been pieced together, analyzed, and made public...

In 2000, Eva and Franco Mattes made an extraordinary decision: every single piece of information on their personal computer was made accessible to the public, in real time.  Through a single link, anyone could access and download their digital life. Emails—both personal and professional—were left in plain view, waiting to be read. Financial documents, private conversations, artist contracts...