Playbour acknowledges the Indigenous country, cultures and knowledges of the land upon which we walk, work and live. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future of Indigenous nations in Australia and abroad. We acknowledge that Australia remains unceded. Always was and always will be Indigenous lands.
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Dear Future Citizen (2018)
3 Jul-6 Sep 2018
RMIT Gallery

#dearfuturecitizen

In a few years, Facebook will have more dead than living users.

What does it mean to live with data of the dead haunting us every day?

Do you have a digital legacy provision about who will steward your data when you are dead?

#dearfuturecitizen asks audience members to sit on a fake island and contemplate the future of data in their life. Through postcard prompts, audience participants are asked to write on a postcard their hopes and fears for the future of data. It seeks to ask: how should living with data of the dead look and feel like?

Please leave your completed postcard on the island. These postcards will then be documented through social media #dearfuturecitizen to curate a space for sharing these stories and hopes online.

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