Jus data, 2017
Jus means given right, power, or authority. It is used in law to express the most absolute
interpretation of right in the eyes of the law and has been used for centuries to express our rights to citizenship. Jus Soli, the right of soil (the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship); and Jus Sanguinis, the right of blood (where citizenship is determined by having one or both parents who are citizens of a state).
‘Jus Data’ is a sculpture in marble which has been engraved and gilded with six latin words.‘Jus Soli', ‘Jus Sanguinis' and ’Jus Data’ (the right to data). The marble is antique and monumental in scale, seeking to amplify the gravitas and permanence of this new right. The words are hand carved and gilded in order to eradicate any suggestion of being virtual or temporary. What could be more permanent and less virtual than carved stone? Words are only carved in stone once they become official and their author wants them to be remembered or immortalised.
The marble is accompanied by three laboratory glass flasks containing samples of the three substances: soil, blood and data. The third flask is empty except for an e-mail address (data@jusdata.co), providing the mechanism to engage as digital citizens in data creation. Viewers are encouraged to e-mail the mailbox and in so doing, create the sample data required for the third flask.
As our lives and identities become increasingly defined by online activities, new rights are being established to safeguard our virtual identities. Identities which are determined by third parties; the websites, applications and providers we use, the information and data we search, use, create or collect. A database which commingles weekly shopping preferences, hobbies, journeys, health, viewing preferences with google or siri searches to create a virtual avatar of us.
These rights govern how how our data can be used and ‘Jus Data’ acts as a marker of the point when our data rights, our virtual citizenship, are permanently elevated to the level of our citizenship in the physical world.
interpretation of right in the eyes of the law and has been used for centuries to express our rights to citizenship. Jus Soli, the right of soil (the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship); and Jus Sanguinis, the right of blood (where citizenship is determined by having one or both parents who are citizens of a state).
‘Jus Data’ is a sculpture in marble which has been engraved and gilded with six latin words.‘Jus Soli', ‘Jus Sanguinis' and ’Jus Data’ (the right to data). The marble is antique and monumental in scale, seeking to amplify the gravitas and permanence of this new right. The words are hand carved and gilded in order to eradicate any suggestion of being virtual or temporary. What could be more permanent and less virtual than carved stone? Words are only carved in stone once they become official and their author wants them to be remembered or immortalised.
The marble is accompanied by three laboratory glass flasks containing samples of the three substances: soil, blood and data. The third flask is empty except for an e-mail address (data@jusdata.co), providing the mechanism to engage as digital citizens in data creation. Viewers are encouraged to e-mail the mailbox and in so doing, create the sample data required for the third flask.
As our lives and identities become increasingly defined by online activities, new rights are being established to safeguard our virtual identities. Identities which are determined by third parties; the websites, applications and providers we use, the information and data we search, use, create or collect. A database which commingles weekly shopping preferences, hobbies, journeys, health, viewing preferences with google or siri searches to create a virtual avatar of us.
These rights govern how how our data can be used and ‘Jus Data’ acts as a marker of the point when our data rights, our virtual citizenship, are permanently elevated to the level of our citizenship in the physical world.
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