Hasan Elahi's story came on the scene tell the Lift conference begins to be known. It was particularly popularized by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi in the introduction to his latest book, Bursts, and the numerous exhibitions of the work of Hasan Elahi. Hasan Elahi (Wikipedia) is an American artist whose life changed June 19, 2002 at the Detroit airport when he returned from an exhibition in West Africa and a customs officer stopped him and takes him to the detention of immigration services from the airport.
It's strange for an American citizen to be in this place that exudes fear, where people are selected from around the world. "I came back from two days of flights, I might be a strange-looking, with my blond hair. I do not understand what was happening. Can not told me anything ... Until someone tells me he thought I was older.
"Hasan is found then pass an examination rule that he must justify his travels through Tech News buzz in recent years. Without ever saying what was suspected, he was asked where he was September 12, 2001. He opened the agenda of its Palm and dissects in detail with customs some 6 months of life, hour by hour.
The police seemed surprised that he had no explosives on him because they were confused with a namesake who was himself wanted by the U.S. security services. Image: Hasan Elahi on the scene of Lift, photographed by ivo Näpfli. The FBI eventually let him go home. But for more than six months, he had to go to the federal office of the FBI every two weeks.
He spent 9 times a polygraph, which he had to answer yes or no ... At the end of this unpleasant adventure, he has unsuccessfully sought to obtain a letter from the washing of all suspicion. But as he had never been formally charged, he never got it ... This experience has shown how U.S.
national security is all powerful. During the investigation, Hasan told them everything about him. Confronted with people who can decide your life or your death, people who have any authority, which could lock him in Guantanamo without even telling him why: "we do not behave rationally.
It relates to his primal instincts to survive. And survive in my case needed to cooperate. "The risk was for him to return again caught in a similar storm in a return trip. To preserve this, he began to inform the FBI of his whereabouts. First by phone. Then e-mail, attaching gradually pictures ...
So much so that it gave him the idea of creating a website to document his travels. Thus was born in 2003 transcience Tracking (trace the ephemeral), a site to record all his movements, at a time when the iPhone that allows everyone to do the same thing, n ' not yet exist ... Hasan wrote the code to follow at any time, allowing him to say what he did, where he is to publish all the details of her life online.
"At the time, many people thought I was crazy. Now, millions of people doing the same thing. I am now, through this site, which allows a pixel to follow me wherever I am. "On this site you can see all flights he took. Hasan takes pictures of every meal he takes and toilets where he surrendered.
He published his phone records, his financial records ... The bank, telephone company, airlines serve him as a third of evidence to document his travels. Image: An image of Hasan Elahi transcience Tracking of February 4, 2011, the day of his presentation on stage at Lift. "I brought all this at a detailed level to show the absurdity.
I thought that by giving so much information about me, I would eventually become fully anonymous because I am a man like any other. "For him, it is dangerous that so little information is available, because, as this has happened, then anyone can put them in other contexts. "The more you publish information about you, the more it can not be wrong.
If someone googled you, we can not control the information that arrives, if it generates it yourself, you control and define your identity. "Certainly, today, this work of art has become somewhat obsolete, recognizes Hasan Elahi, but it has not disconnected so far as it was difficult to undo the trauma of this story.
Many people are now documenting their movements. It has become their daily lives. But is not it finally the ultimate fate of a work of art? Hasan said he still takes more pictures of empty areas not to compromise the privacy of those around her. But this style of images is also an artistic eye that allows people to enter more easily into the experience.
"Everyone can say that this guy, this could be me." 
It's strange for an American citizen to be in this place that exudes fear, where people are selected from around the world. "I came back from two days of flights, I might be a strange-looking, with my blond hair. I do not understand what was happening. Can not told me anything ... Until someone tells me he thought I was older.
"Hasan is found then pass an examination rule that he must justify his travels through Tech News buzz in recent years. Without ever saying what was suspected, he was asked where he was September 12, 2001. He opened the agenda of its Palm and dissects in detail with customs some 6 months of life, hour by hour.
The police seemed surprised that he had no explosives on him because they were confused with a namesake who was himself wanted by the U.S. security services. Image: Hasan Elahi on the scene of Lift, photographed by ivo Näpfli. The FBI eventually let him go home. But for more than six months, he had to go to the federal office of the FBI every two weeks.
He spent 9 times a polygraph, which he had to answer yes or no ... At the end of this unpleasant adventure, he has unsuccessfully sought to obtain a letter from the washing of all suspicion. But as he had never been formally charged, he never got it ... This experience has shown how U.S.
national security is all powerful. During the investigation, Hasan told them everything about him. Confronted with people who can decide your life or your death, people who have any authority, which could lock him in Guantanamo without even telling him why: "we do not behave rationally.
It relates to his primal instincts to survive. And survive in my case needed to cooperate. "The risk was for him to return again caught in a similar storm in a return trip. To preserve this, he began to inform the FBI of his whereabouts. First by phone. Then e-mail, attaching gradually pictures ...
So much so that it gave him the idea of creating a website to document his travels. Thus was born in 2003 transcience Tracking (trace the ephemeral), a site to record all his movements, at a time when the iPhone that allows everyone to do the same thing, n ' not yet exist ... Hasan wrote the code to follow at any time, allowing him to say what he did, where he is to publish all the details of her life online.
"At the time, many people thought I was crazy. Now, millions of people doing the same thing. I am now, through this site, which allows a pixel to follow me wherever I am. "On this site you can see all flights he took. Hasan takes pictures of every meal he takes and toilets where he surrendered.
He published his phone records, his financial records ... The bank, telephone company, airlines serve him as a third of evidence to document his travels. Image: An image of Hasan Elahi transcience Tracking of February 4, 2011, the day of his presentation on stage at Lift. "I brought all this at a detailed level to show the absurdity.
I thought that by giving so much information about me, I would eventually become fully anonymous because I am a man like any other. "For him, it is dangerous that so little information is available, because, as this has happened, then anyone can put them in other contexts. "The more you publish information about you, the more it can not be wrong.
If someone googled you, we can not control the information that arrives, if it generates it yourself, you control and define your identity. "Certainly, today, this work of art has become somewhat obsolete, recognizes Hasan Elahi, but it has not disconnected so far as it was difficult to undo the trauma of this story.
Many people are now documenting their movements. It has become their daily lives. But is not it finally the ultimate fate of a work of art? Hasan said he still takes more pictures of empty areas not to compromise the privacy of those around her. But this style of images is also an artistic eye that allows people to enter more easily into the experience.
"Everyone can say that this guy, this could be me."
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