Project Description: 

A Python’s Gaze materializes the feeling of constriction and pressure that many of us are collectively feeling as the use of technology for surveillance and control of our actions and beliefs has increased in intensity. Surveillance and data mining for consumeristic strategies has been entirely normalized and integrated into our everyday life and data mining has shifted its focus to tracking, censorship, and feeding of propaganda and curated narratives.  

As the political climate becomes more controlling and oppressive with its attempt to maintain the status quo, the window for what is acceptable to challenge, question, or simply exist as, has become narrower. Technology is used for both literal and psychological control, and algorithms limit the free expression and existence of racialized, queer, and otherwise marginalized communities that challenge the norms we are being fed. Technology's impact on surveillance, privacy, and control constricts our rights for the expression of self and belief, much like a python strangling its prey and increasing in pressure the more the prey fights back.