I am an artist, technology critic and privacy designer who helps citizens, designers and policymakers understand opportunities and challenges in our…
Author: tijmen
In this game the goal is to fool a face recognition algorithm by making funny faces. At the start of the…
This interactive documentary explores how face recognition technology is used, and lets you experience it yourself. You can find out how…
Candle is a privacy friendly smart home of the future. It explores how privacy by design principles could (and should) be…
Together with Privacy Company I am working on a Privacy Label. It offers an easy to understand summary of a privacy…
As an embedded artist and full member, I will reflect on the research into ethics and AI that the Sherpa consortium…
Most people feel that in order to say anything critical about technology they need to first dive into how the technology…
This book helps designers and design students understand both practical and ethical aspects of creating privacy friendly services in general, and Internet…
As a privacy designer I wanted to point out that the bluetooth-based contact tracing apps are not anonymous, even though they…
Your social media posts are continuously being analyzed by specialized companies, such as Cambridge Analytica. For example, if you use a…
What happens when our smart devices become aware of our reputations? Digital reputation scores that are distilled from the data we share will…
Are algorithms more neutral than people? No. Algorithms can have hidden biases. This makes them a popular way to hide power…
Early 2017 I was master of ceremony at the Masterclass Netpolitics. Over the course of seven evenings participants explore the complex interrelation…
This mediacampagne’s goal was to make people understand one thing: you do have something to hide. We asked 3 artists and 3 thinkers…
The Snowden revelations raised a question: how difficult is it to create a database of all people in a nation simply by…
I created an online tool that allows anyone to create a playlist of their favorite webpages. You can experience them as…
While working at Knowledgeland I was part of the Open Cultuur Data team. Knowledgeland has for years organized a yearly course on…
Gifted is a participatory experience that was created in 2008 for the Impakt Festival in Utrecht. It explores the future of social networks…
While working at Virtual Platform I researched and curated a guide to all the medialabs, media festivals and creative gaming companies…
Data is often more persuasive than it should be, especially when it looks good. In this event we watched the most…
This Happened is series of evenings about design processes which are organized the world over. The idea is to look into the…
While working at Virtual Platform, the Dutch institute for digital culture, I developed an event in which young talent could connect to…
Learning to program, even just a little, will help you find a job and understand the modern world. But another important…
The Fund for Cultural Participation had an interesting question: could they create a more open proces for the smaller funding requests (5000…
The 3D print pen allows you to lift of from the paper, and draw into the air. This is possible because,…
As drones became popular consumer items, reports of them invading privacy also skyrocketed. In this lighthearted workshop Ruben Pater and I…
In 2014 het Nieuwe Instituut remembered the start of the first world war in 1914. I curated a small exhibit about the…