About
"I agree with the terms," "Click here to continue." "I give my consent" or "Accept all." You probably click on many of these daily. But, what do you permit when you thoughtlessly click ‘agree’ on a privacy policy? What data is collected about you, by whom, and why? And what is the value of information flows? What does privacy mean, and what influence do algorithms have on your identity?
Julia Janssen is an artist and designer who creates awareness for the impact of digitalization on society. With her art, she makes the complexity of data and data-driven technology accessible to everybody. By connecting scientific, political, economic, and legal issues with Art and Design, we explore how you gain control over your data and autonomy over your digital life. We make room for debate; What do and don't you want from an online society?
Studio Julia Janssen creates movement. Not towards privacy– but towards a digital society where you can choose who knows what about you.
Photo by Studio New West
Team Studio Julia Janssen
Julia Janssen | Founder
Suzan Slinger | Production & Office Manager
mEgg Griffing | A robot who writes on sperical and egg-shaped objects
Over the years, Julia Janssen has collaborated with programmers, lawyers, advisers, thinkers, and inspiring people. Please see the acknowledgments page for the full overview.
Suzan Slinger ('93) is the production manager of Studio Julia Janssen. In 2019, she graduated as Production and Stagemanager at the Amsterdam University of Arts. Since then she worked as a freelancer at various clients on different theater projects. During summertime she focusses on the production of the art program of festival Into The Great Wide Open on the island Vlieland.
At Studio Julia Janssen Suzan will support Julia with the executive production and as an office manager. She will be happy to answer all your questions about the studio.
How Julia maps her research:
Biography
Julia Janssen ('94) is an Amsterdam based artist, designer and Researcher with a background in Grapic Design (ArtEZ Institute of Arts, Arnhem 2012-2016)
During Art school, Janssen developed an interest in data and technology: user- and privacy policies, our relationship with social media, and alternative economics.
With her graduation project, Bank of Online Humanity (2016), she stated, "We have been enslaved by the data business," pointing to the economic value of personal data and the monetization of people's attention. This project won the Crypto Design Award, audience vote. From that moment, she dedicated her practice as an artist to data sovereignty and the future of the Internet.
In 2017 she received a grant for Talent Development from Creative Fund NL and a Pionier Grant from SIDN fund for Innovation and Internet. Fifteen months of research about data economics resulted in The Attention Fair – An installation with 12 games, visuals, and experiments about the value of (personal).
In 2019 she started the reading out loud performance' 0.0146 seconds' – collectively, we are reading and recording 835 privacy policies that got accepted with just one click on 'got it.' This project shows the fragile position of the internet user and the manipulative strategies of Internet economics.
In 2020, she started the podcast Achter de klik | Behind the Click, because the tour with 0.0146 seconds got cancelled due to COVID-19.
EXPOS
2020
2019
2018
[Into The Great Wide Open] Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
[De staat van het Internet | The State of the Internet]
by Waag, Theater Public Library, Amsterdam
[I-Interim Rijk] Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom relations
[Data Sharing Days 2020] The Hague
[The Big Brother Awards] Tivoli Vredenburg – Utrecht
[ECP annual congress for the information society]
[Dutch Design Week] Ketelhuisplein, Eindhoven
[Todays Art Festival] The Hague
[Beyond Data: Data for Society] Eindhoven
[Moneylab #6 Infrastructures of Money] Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany
Dutch Design Week - Veem, floor 2, Eindhoven
Innovate Experience - Industriepark Kleefse Waard, Arnhem
ECP, Platform for The Information Society - The Hague
TALKS
2020
2019
2018
2017
[I-Interim Rijk] Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom relations
[Art & Consciousness in 2020 and beyond] Todays Art Festival, The Hague
[Symposium Post-Master IT-Auditing & Advisory] Erasmus University, Rotterdam
[Workshop Data & Library] Cubiss, Innovation in libraries, Tilburg
[TITL 25th- conference] Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society
[The Kick - Design for good] karibu Café, Utrecht
[Sociale top] Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations
[Fixing the Internet: Privacy and Data Beyond GDPR / Freedomlab Campus
[Talkshow Top Names] by Technology and Innovation Platform Fast Moving Targets
[The Dark Side] Design Platform, Arnhem
[Weapons of Math Destruction] / A panel discussion about algorithmic decision making and biases in algorithms with Cathy O'Neil | TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
DESIGN MATTERS – Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
OTHER
2020 | MASTERCLASS
[Driving Dutch Design] A masterclass program about Entrepreneurship & Design, by ABN AMRO, BNO and Dutch Design Foundation
2019-2010 | GRANT
[Own Your Own Data] SIDN fund for Innovation and Empowerment of the Internet
2019 | NOMINEE
[ICARUS AWARD]
2017- 2018 | GRANT
[Talent Development] Creative Funds NL
2017-2018 | GRANT
[Pioneer] SIDN fund for Innovation and Empowerment of the Internet
2016 | WINNER
[Crypto Design Award] Audience vote
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Acknowledgements
Collaborations, fundings, and people who helped me over the years to develop my projects and Studio Julia Janssen
Writings
SEP 2020 | WRITING
[Re-value // Reconnect]
Dutch Design Week Magazine
MAR 2020 | WRITING
[Entrepreneur of the Month]
ArtEZ Art & Business
MAY 2019 | WRITING
:i:am the product of my own information / Pervasive Labour Union – Zine
MAY 2018 | WRITING
Vooruit willen door achteruit te lopen / privacy-web
MAY 2018 / WRITING
[Dutch Design Daily]
APR 2018 | INTERVIEW
[Hoe maken we van data een werkbare valuta? | How to make data into a curreny?] Mrketing Facts
APR 2018 | INTERVIEW
[Talkshow Top Names] by Technology and Innovation Platform Fast Moving Targets
OKT 2017 | INTERVIEW
[Talent Ontwikkeling] ArtEZ Art & Business
