Cyber Eyes Wide Open: Innovation, Art, and Collaborative Practice

Abstract

This chapter showcases a collaboration between creatives, artists, academics, cyber security professionals and companies to create artworks that increased awareness of cyber security. The aim was to offer creative perspectives and practices into how cyber security might be better understood through creating visualizations, experiences and narratives that could enable communication and insight. Four cyber security businesses each provided a theme resulting in vibrant collaborations between the companies, four academics and eight artists. Eleven projects and forty two pieces of art were developed and exhibited in two exhibitions in the Northeast where over hundred people viewed the works. Evaluation indicated that the artworks had an impact, with people more aware of cyber security.