About
Title
The Body as Data – Your Monitored Body
Intro
In 2021 the Steno Museum, part of Aarhus University’s Science Museum, opened the exhibition section “The Body as Data – Your Monitored Body”. The exhibition section, part of the main exhibition “Dear Body, Difficult Body”, aims to get visitors to be more critical of their “online self”: What they share with others and to whom they give their information. The exhibition section was developed in close collaboration with young people as part of the project " Give the Youth the Word".
Contribution As part of the exhibition, The Animation Workshop / VIA UC produced small films and video mapping elements based on a presentation of research in the field as well as the young people's input. Jody Ghani, from Jodyprody, and Lars Hemmingsen, from Midtjysk 3D service, have animated and produced video mapping.
What can you experience in the exhibition section "The Body as Data"
A "discrimination machine", which illustrates how we feed our phones and computers with data about ourselves every day, created by The Animation Workshop/Sci-Vi
The poem, "The days are data" by Lone Hørslev, forms the background and shows which technologies collect data about us.
An oversize marionette asks the question "Who is pulling your strings"
Films show how various health and disease data have been collected about the Danes since the 17th century.
The question:
“Who are you on social media? – The fly on the wall? The perfect body? The eager sharer?” and “What are you hiding? – The bad days? The unhealthy food?”
CREDITS The exhibition section "The body as data – your monitored body" was created together with young people from The Academy for Talented Young People, researchers from Health, Aarhus University and The Animation Workshop/VIA University College in Viborg.
The project, including the exhibition section, is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation