In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on a daily photographic project while keeping a journal. Reflecting years later on this endeavor, she highlights the challenges of documenting thoughts and feelings. Today, with technology recording vast amounts of data about our lives, privacy concerns have shifted towards controlling this information. However, Mayer's work suggests that much remains unrecorded, prompting a discussion on the essence of privacy. Lowry Pressly's The Right to Oblivion contrasts modern privacy with a broader ideal that values the aspects of life that are elusive and unrecorded.
I thought that if there were a computer or device that could record everything you think or see, even for a single day, that would make an interesting piece of language/information.
The contemporary understanding of privacy... focuses on the control of such information... who I want to know about me and exactly what they should know.
Mayer's 1971 work underlines that such information has to be created in the first place, and she noted how much was not captured in her experiment.
Pressly's aim is to recapture a more expansive, even romantic ideal of privacy... about the importance of everything Mayer could not record and the fact of its not being recorded.
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