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