Cyber Arts Exhibit 2024
Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 19, 2025
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) explores cybersecurity through art with the 2024 Cyber Arts Exhibit at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 19, 2025.
The exhibit grew out of a CCI Call for Proposals that united researchers with the arts and design community from Blue Ridge Community College, George Mason University, James Madison University, Old Dominion University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Tech.
Davian Robinson, a vision-impaired dancer, uses echolocation to move.
An exhibit highlights how artificial intelligence might be hacked to steal an identity.
Presenters interact with the audience at a performance of "This is Not a Scam!!"
Visitors look at an exhibit of discarded phones that still contain personal information.
There were a number of submissions from throughout our network of colleges and universities. The funded projects, which are presented in a variety of media, include:
- Thought-provoking works that explore the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of Al systems.
- Incorporating constantly changing graphic designs to grasp the user’s attention and reduce belief in misinformation.
- A multimedia art installation using moiré patterns to hide information in interference patterns to showcase the dangers of steganography.
- A live virtual reality-based performance art project exploring how threat actors can surveil emotion data of speech in chat, text, and social media.
- An interactive installation to illustrate how AI-assisted Internet of Things devices “see” people.
- An interactive theatre performance, “This Is Not a Scam!!”, based on victim interviews that discuss scams and the strategies to counter them.
- A display of discarded smartphones showcasing how digital debris is left behind, opening the door to bad actors.
The project was the second to challenge the arts and design research community to reimagine and depict the results of cybersecurity research for either scientific or creative arts purposes.
CCI held an exhibit of the 2020 CyberArts funded projects in November of 2022 at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va.
CCI would like to thank the Torpedo Factory Art Center, the City of Alexandria, Hilton, and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech for their support.
