Black Box Enlightenment Edition 2014

Design concept on the topic of privacy and the potential implications of data mining and one’s personal life.

Copy credits: Kyle Barron-Cohen.

Data is no longer delivered through isolated funnels, individually fed to us in discreet, digestible doses. Data consumption is now more akin to standing at the convergence of a few dozen waterfalls with your mouth open.

Information comes at us so fast, and in such high volume that it can be extremely hard to enjoy it in the moment. To even have a moment. To recognize that moments still exist.

BlackBox is not only for passive data collection and perusal/analysis after the fact. The app BlackBoxEnlightenment now allows you to tap into the insightful power of BlackBox to enjoy fleeting moments in the moment through metadata.

Using the massive data analysis capabilities of BlackBox and building on petabytes of past experiences, BlackBoxEnlightenment takes in the scene presented to it through your smart device and extracts digital poetry from the colors, textures, sounds, objects, and people living in the frame. These artificial interpretations can then be shared and saved, and added to a lifetime of inspired moments.