meta4walls, Lucas Bambozzi, 2001.
Image: Courtesy of the artist.


meta4walls

"meta4walls, the first of a series of on-line privacy projects by Lucas Bambozzi is a web-project simulating a sort of meta-surveillance on the Net. It uses mechanisms widely used to collect personal information and other data through forms, cookies and questionnaires. The scripts generates automatic feedback that appear in the site among some content of interest [most of it comes from junk mail]. Inviting the user to visit a range of illicit links or to access "secret" information in a displaced context, it exposes the fragility of some systems and suggest to the visitors the feeling of being observed and having their privacy endangered - as they will experience their personal data being collected. "

Lucas Bambozzi

Born in 1965. By the end of the 80's started to develop studies and artistic work using moving images, attempting to explore the expressive potentiality of the video and related media. His works are constituted by authorial and independent pieces, including a wide variety of formats, such as installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive work. Has been frequently awarded and constantly screened inside and outside of Brazil in solo and collective shows in more than 30 countries.

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