In her practice and research, Tamara Kametani engages with the topics of border politics, forms of surveillance and resistance, and the shifting relationship between digital and physical environments by using found digital material, online mapping apps, satellite imagery, and geolocation data. During her talk, the artist will present her work, focusing on the new project she is currently developing during her residency, in which she is exploring the phenomenon of Null Island: a point in the Atlantic Ocean that, despite having no physical form, contains an abundance of data due to errors and glitches in geographic coordinate systems. By creating a free, web-based application that digitally relocates users to Null Island's coordinates, she wishes to reveal its potential to combat surveillance and reclaim data liberty, which seems especially crucial in an era of increasing reliance on digital services and inevitable data collection.

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