The line between ‘Fake News’, ‘Propaganda’ and harmless ‘Misinformation’ is heavily blurred by mass media and users in social networks of today. On Track is an interactive installation that premiered at GOGBOT 2021 – a creative technology festival in Enschede, The Netherlands – shining light into this unclarity.
Showcasing an immersive fictional disaster followed up by fictional news-flash videos, Off the rails concentrates its effort to clarify those terms by having the user decide per video, which type of false information it represents. In a form of a social experiment, this data has been anonymously collected and presented afterward to the user.
Airing under the title ‘Recalibrate reality!’, Off the rails stimulates its users to be aware of what information source they will use in the future.
Two years later, this research project has aged well, as we all watch artificial intelligence slowly making its way towards world domination.
