GOOGLE, THE PERVADING SURVEILLANCE

VIRTUAL REALITY INTERIOR EXPERIENCES CRITICIZING GOOGLE SUITS

Programs: Educational exhibition in virtual environment

Project Date: Fall 2019

Concept Statement : Google renders its exterior branding image as an innocent, harmless and philanthropic institution out of a necessity to frame and hide its interiority. The interior is created by Google’s surveillance and exploitation of users’ personal information. Experimental projects supported by Google Arts & Culture have elegant and minimalist webpages, which dedicated to building an appealing and naive appearance of GCI. But surveillance and privacy hazard still reveal themselves via the dialogue box on Google’s webpage, which Google is asking for permission to access the PC’s camera system and personal database. Once acceptance is confirmed, the dialogue box dissolves into a supervising aperture meanwhile sucking in personal information to fill up their database and build up their corporal data center in Nevada. To protest against Google’s branding, a 3D environment is created to illustrate the interiority of Google Arts & Culture by the lens of interior design.