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transparent.citizen

a private life is narrated and exposed minute by minute by an AI for a week.

for one week mees lives as a transparent citizen. his home AI tracks his every move, vital functions, money, music and food, to turn it into a continuous biography. a printer exposes it live. to read it, you must be watched too.

if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

it is the argument that ends every debate about surveillance. if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. transparent.citizen takes that argument literally and applies it to one person for one week.
mees hands his home over to an AI. his location, movement, calendar, heart rate, water use, music, browsing history, bank statements, pretty much any signal is collected, categorised and interpreted. the result is a biography. a continuous, readable account of a life, written by a machine that never asked for consent.

About Mees Boeijen | amaranth studio

amaranth studio is an interdisciplinary product design studio founded in eindhoven by mees boeijen, located in the hemelrijken neighbourhood. the studio works across electronics, embedded systems, software and physical design, on projects where the technology is built rather than bought. amaranth also hosts workshops, co-working and other events designed around human connection, creation and technology.
Other area, amaranth studio, Hemelrijken 105 , Map No. X3
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