STEALING UR FEELINGS

Stealing Ur Feelings is an augmented reality experience that playfully, sometimes absurdly, exposes the ways in which major corporations want to use facial recognition to influence individual Internet users – and potentially all of them. While being bombarded by images, the user is stealthily analysed by software that creates an automated portrait. Do you consider yourself progressive? Your smile might reveal that about you. With this game, Noah Levenson is not so much advancing a conspiracy theory as warning us against the unintended consequences that widespread use of the technology could yield, both for private lives and the public sphere. You might not be who you thought you were.