Carnivore

Mixed media (software and network)

http://rhizome.org/rsg

Carnivore is an ongoing collaborative project based on the artist's exploration of the functionality of the infamous software used by US intelligence to monitor Internet activity worldwide. The project demonstrates how difficult and arbitrary the fielding and representation of information may be, thus making a derisive comment on the official endeavor to monitor information exchanges. Galloway has engaged in multiple collaborations to create a set of interfaces which propose different interpretations of the data gathered in a given system: The piece was first developed at Eyebeam and hence tracked the data flow of that organization.