Traces

Everyone who encounters this portrait leaves a permanent digital trace, their bodies being recognized, segmented, and overlaid on top of all its other observers, creating a ghostly and evolving digital palimpsest. Traces seeks to blur the boundary between the observer and observed and raise questions about how the technology industry collects, analyzes, and exploits data from billions of people in every corner of the world.

What traces do you leave behind when you doomscroll Instagram, call an Uber, or walk underneath a CCTV camera?