Are secrets uniquely human? Our private lives are mediated and recorded by digital devices. Where are our secrets now? How will intelligent systems of the future process the data we leave behind? Will they know things about us that we don’t (and never could) know about ourselves?
The Future of Secrets is an interactive installation created by Sarah Newman, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Rachel Kalmar from metaLAB at Harvard. It is an immersive experience that includes sound, projection, and interaction; the installation asks participants to anonymously share their secrets as a way to question the trust we place in machines, and ultimately reflect back our own humanness. What does it mean for us to share so much of o
The Future of Secrets is an evolving installation that collects secrets from participants, and then shares those secrets by algorithmically determined but opaque logic. Each time it is exhibited it grows more complex. The installation at SXSW will combine previous versions of this work into a more comprehensive one that includes interactive audio, video, print, and interaction with the secrets portal itself. During the exhibition (March 9-15), rem