(Read a review here) Good Listeners is a browser plugin that exposes the secret ways in which our browsing habits are shared with and mined by 3rd party web trackers (like Google Analytics and Facebook “Like”) without our consent or knowledge. Whenever a site exposes the visitor’s data to a third party service a confessional booth window is opened and the priest in the window offers words of invisible wisdom, divine providence and spiritual guidance pertaining to matters of web browsing, social networking, e-commerce and digital identity.

Good Listeners in a critical/ amusing/ awkward visualization and sonification of the vast data dimension passively generated by us and aggressively collected and mined by these mysterious omnipresent all-seeing tracking forces of the web.

Concept & Design: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Code: Zohar Arad

Courtesy Mushon Zer Aviv, commissioned by the V&A with generous support from the Porter Foundation and in collaboration with Design Museum Holon.

Launched: November 2011 as a part of the Decode exhibition.