Die With Me: Interview with Dries Depoorter and David Surprenant

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 in the interview 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
• Unannouced 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