Sociality: US-9092805-B2

Item

Title
Sociality: US-9092805-B2
Description
The project Sociality documented over twenty-thousand patents of socially manipulative information
technology. Cirio collected and rated Internet inventions submitted to the USpatent office. Subsequently,
he invited the public to share, flag, and ban the technologies designed to monitor and manipulate social
behaviors. Cirio obtained the patent images and data through hacking the Google Patents search engine.
He then rated the patents and created thousands of compositions with images of flowcharts and titles of
inventions, which were published on the project’s website: Sociality.today.
Creator
Paolo Cirio
Date
2021
Type
mixed media
Subject
patents
Extent
30 x 24 inches
Is Part Of
Sociality
References
project website
Item sets
Surveillance Art