A social sculpture and participatory installation in public space about the effects and consequences of Big Data analytics on society.
Freiheit 2.0 is a large-scale participatory work in public space. With FREIHEIT 2.0 Florian Mehnert questions the influence, effects and consequences of BIG DATA on society.
As part of his core element of the BIG DATA colloquia, the artist invited numerous expert speakers to give lectures and participate in panel discussions. FREEDOM 2.0 was realized twice: in 2016 as a tri-national project in Weil am Rhein/Basel (Switzerland), Huningue (France), and in 2018 in Stuttgart.
Former project page of FREEDOM 2.0
Publication archive page with ISBN
SWR Radio Interview, Freiheit 2.0: Was hat Big Data mit Freiheit zu tun, 04.06.2018
Deutschland Radio Kultur, Florian Mehnert im Corso-Gespräch, 13.09.2016
The interactive app FREIHEIT 2.0 anonymously stores the movement profiles of participants and serves as an interface between the analogue and digital world and is used to create an awareness of the sensitivity of one's own data. The Selftracking app illustrates how data is obtained from individual behavioral patterns.
The temporary renaming of shops in a city quarter by the term FREEDOM publicly raises the question of the value and significance of privacy and individual freedom. It creates a public platform for discussion and debate about the meaning and necessary redefinition of privacy in relation to BIG DATA.
A temporary guidance system on the streets leads from all renamed shops to the colloquia. The guidance system visualizes the invisible data flow of the digital world and displays the digital motion profiles in analog form on the streets.
This is the moment when art meets science, when invited scientists from very different fields talk about their research. FREEDOM 2.0 works with an extended concept of art, in which science and the public are involved in the art: They are part of the art installation itself.
The Publication FREIHEIT 2.0