Accept All Cookies 🍪
by Elif Kalender

Accept All Cookies is an interactive installation that reimagines surveillance as a reactive presence, rather than a central, all-seeing eye.

Visitors are invited to “accept the cookies” by taking one, triggering sensors that activate the surveillance state. The work highlights how we constantly give away personal data online, often without realizing it.

Two moving head lights are placed at opposite ends of a corridor.

Phase 1 – The Search
As long as no one takes a cookie, the lights move randomly on the X and Y axes, scanning as if searching for their next subject.

Phase 2 – State of Surveillance
When someone reaches for a cookie, the sensors activate and the system locates the visitor. The lights immediately shift from passive search to active tracking. The visitor becomes the observed.

Software:
Arduino, TouchDesigner, Adobe Audition

Hardware:
LED Spot Moving Head Light ×2, DMX Cable ×2, Enttec DMX USB Pro Interface, Extension Cables, Distance Sensor ×2, Arduino Nano, Bluetooth Speaker

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