Private Moments
A poem by Thomas Bøvith, 2018-06-21.
(Also available in Danish)
What is this?
- An experiment with code-generated poetry
- A listing of private moments
- A log of random people's locations and actions
- A profiling of their feelings
- An infinitely looping surveillance algorithm
- A computer program (private_en.py) of exactly 1984 bytes
- A piece of poorly programmed and undocumented spyware
- A daily transcript (private_en.txt) — a kind of surveillance log
- A paper printout (coming soon)
- A PDF-version of the paper version (coming soon)
- A piece of free and open source software (modify the script and surveil the surveilling)
- A piece of free culture – read it, copy it, modify it, and share it
- An experimental poetry debut
Dedicated to Edward Snowden for his courageous exposing of the extent of mass surveillance in the summer of 2013.
Thanks to Nick Montfort for the inspiration.