[spectre] The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities.

[marc garrett]

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The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities.

An Interview with Heath Bunting - Part 1.

In this two part interview, Marc Garrett discusses with Heath Bunting 
his current work within two distinctive areas of digital culture and 
sport-art starting with The Status Project, which studies the 
construction of our 'official identities' and creates what Bunting 
describes as "...an expert system for identity mutation".

His research explores how information supplied by the public in their 
interaction with organisations and institutions is logged. The project 
draws on his direct encounters with specific database collection 
processes and the information he was obliged to supply in his life as a 
public citizen, in order to access specific services; also on data 
collected from the Internet and from information found on governmental 
databases. This data is then used to map and illustrate how we behave, 
relate, choose things, travel and move around in social spaces. The 
project surveys individuals on a local, national and international level 
producing maps of influence and personal portraits for both 
comprehension and social mobility.

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