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Six themes follow to explore sexuality on social networks to the personal diary. The web has profoundly changed our relationship with privacy and new surveillance and protection technologies are intruding into private life.
Facial recognition, geolocation, object tracking, application tracking are undermining this fragile balance between the self and others in the broadest sense of the term.
From the Latin «intimus», that which is most internal, the intimate is confronted with a global exterior that feeds on images at breakneck speed, digesting and forgetting them with the interstellar speed of fiber and increasingly omnipresent artificial intel- ligence.
Algorithms track the slightest desires, the slightest actions to offer personalized dreams that can thus be exploited for marketing purposes in the best case, but also for much more dangerous manipulation purposes.
In an era of powerful technology in both time and space, it is vital to cultivate one’s very secret garden...
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Poster of the exhibition The Intimacy of the Bedroom to Social Networks
© Les Arts Décoratifs / The female figure is a detail of the painting Le Bains (1903) by Tony Robert Fleury - City of Grenoble Museum of Grenoble - J.L.Lacroix Graphics: Lacaste Design