Die With Me: Interview with Dries Depoorter and David Surprenant
Coywolf Founder, Jon Henshaw, interviews Belgian artist, Dries Depoorter, and interactive developer, David Surprenant, about their iOS and Android app, Die With Me.
I interviewed Dries Depoorter, a Belgian artist that focuses on themes around privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and social media, and David Surprenant, a Canadian interactive developer, about their smartphone app, Die With Me.
The topics we discussed included:
- How the Die With Me app became reality
- The difficulties they experienced with Apple
- How they didn’t give up and were able to work around the App Store rules
- The work and life experience that influenced Dries’ art
- The Quick Fix machine that allows people to buy likes and followers on Instagram
- Unannounced new features for Die With Me that will be coming out soon
- Observations David and Dries have made about how people use Die With Me
Jon is the founder of Coywolf and the EIC and the primary author reporting for Coywolf News. He is an industry veteran with over 25 years of digital marketing and internet technologies experience. Follow @henshaw