This is a radical livestreaming experiment, investigating the meaning of privacy in our digital age. Two young filmmakers streamed their lives non-stop for 15 days on the VPRO website, supplemented by data on their heart rates, their moods and their geolocation. The livestream was turned into a 4-part documentary series. The purpose was to investigate what our attentionbased culture does to people. Inspired by Dave Eggers’s book The Circle, they completely removed the boundary between their online and offline worlds. What happens if other people are watching everything you do? What kind of human being do you become if your life is one long status update? The small cameras mounted on their bodies transmit live images to the website, supplemented by data on their heart rates, their moods illustrated by graphs and maps of the routes they have taken. They share everything from private phone numbers to frank revelations during therapy sessions. They extensively reflect on their experiment in conversations on selfcensorship, shame, vulnerability, wanting to make a good impression and feeling judged. One week before Super Stream Me is scheduled to end, they decide that the experiment has gone far enough.
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