Sunday, November 07, 2004
Digital World
High-tech media has made inroads on our privacy, but a panel of designers says it’s as much an atmosphere as an invasion
Since the last world war, America has been the self-described watchdog for the world. But what happens when those in political power begin to turn America’s gaze back on itself? This was one of the questions being asked in August at the 54th annual International Design Conference in Aspen, Colo., where organizers Benjamin Bratton and Christian Moeller gathered 18 speakers from Europe and the United States under the banner “Ambient: Interface.’’ In front of an audience of designers and design students, they discussed how we engage with increasingly mobile and sometimes invasive computer technologies.