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Aaron Brown. Deep Web Art.

by Paul Feigelfeld

Aaron Brown is legally real. I quote:

On paper, and in the digital realm, Aaron Brown exists. He has a State of Ohio driver’s license, identification proving that he is member of the Lipan Apache Tribe in Texas, and is licensed to operate a boat. Brown is also a customer of Comcast and has a State Farm Insurance card.

In reality, Brown does not exist. He is a ghost, a digital specter fabricated by the photographer and visual artist Curtis Wallen.

The bifurcation that occurs between physical and digital personas interested Wallen. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if I could fabricate a new physical person using the Deep Web, Tor, Bitcoin, and all of these new technologies popping up in the face of tracking, and see how far I could push it,” he said.

(Read the whole article here)

You can use the Aaron Brown proxy or even tweet as Aaron here.

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