UNFIT BITS -TEGA BRAIN & SURYA MATTU

Health insurance companies are starting to offer discounts to people who exercise regularly, a fact that can be verified by wearing a fitness tracker. The Unfit Bits team develops DIY spoofing techniques for connected bracelets and other wearable fitness trackers to simulate activity data without you having to share your personal data. These techniques help produce personal fitness data to qualify you for insurance rewards, whilst keeping your actual physical activity data secret.

Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer whose eccentric engineering intersects art, ecology & engineering. Eccentric engineering reimagines technologies to address their scope and politics, with a focus on systems that enact more-than-only-human agendas. Her work takes the form of site specific installations, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information systems.
http://tegabrain.com

Surya Mattu is an artist and engineer based in Brooklyn. He is currently a fellow at Data&Society where he is investigating infrastructure with a focus on wireless as a way to better understand bias in technology. He is also a contributing researcher at ProPublica. Previously he has worked as an engineer at Bell Labs and is a graduate from the New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has a degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
http://www.suryamattu.com