Jenna deBoisblanc’s Oogle (2020) is an interactive web piece that allows the user to navigate the house of deBoisblanc through a mimic of the interface of Google Maps. By placing this navigation format into such an intimate and personal space, deBoisblanc critiques the rise of surveillance capitalism and its sustainment through active consumer interaction.
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Digital America interviewed Jenna deBoisblanc in April of 2024.
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Check out Jenna deBoisblanc’s past work, Yosemite, with Digital America in Issue 18.
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Jenna deBoisblanc is a net artist, new media artist, and teacher from New Orleans, LA. She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Pomona College (Claremont, CA) and her MFA in digital art from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA). She has shown work at local galleries in New Orleans (The Front, Good Children), as well as at light festivals in the Southwest (Luna Fête, Light Up Albuquerque). Her clients include Toyota, the Aloft Hotel, the Florida Aquarium, and NASA.
