Owen Mundy

I Know Where Your Cat Lives, 2014-in progress

Millions of people readily publish sensitive data about their personal lives on a daily basis. Owen Mundy’s I Know Where Your Cat Lives is a humorous reminder this is not a good idea. Mobile phones attach location tags to photos. Using the possibilities provided by popular photo sharing sites for gathering and handling data such as this Mundy created a map of the homes of a million cats and their owners worldwide. This resulted in a web based work that quickly became a hit on social media. I Know Where Your Cat Lives makes clever use of the popularity of cat pics on social media to spread its message. Owen Mundy is an artist, designer and programmer. His work often has a critical edge. Another piece entitled Commodify.us, a collaboration with Tim Schwartz, aimed to give people the opportunity to sell their data rather than give it away for free. Like Commodify.us, I Know Where Your Cat Lives revolves around raising public awareness of the urgent political issues in the information age. With I Know Where Your Cat Lives Mundy succeeded in this with flying colours. He manages to subtly but convincingly allert millions of people worldwide to the recklessness of their behavior: the data the artist used can be applied to create maps in order to any object of affection people take pictures of, including kids.

Oevre: https://iknowwhereyourcatlives...
Artiste: www.owenmundy.com