Kassandra Charlotte Wellendorf

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Kassandra Charlotte Wellendorf is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of surveillance studies, human-computer interaction, and practice-based artistic research. Her work critically examines how everyday technologies reshape privacy and domestic life, with a particular focus on the subtle, often comforting forms of monitoring she terms "calm surveillance." Wellendorf’s major contributions include her 2022 essay "HOMECTRL," which demonstrates how artistic installations can serve as powerful methodological tools for investigating surveillance, offering speculative fabulations that challenge conventional understandings of data collection. Her 2021 study on robot vacuum cleaners reveals the profound ambivalence in human-robot relationships, showing how users develop emotional attachments to devices that simultaneously map and collect intimate data about their homes. Through qualitative video interviews and observational research, she illuminates the complex negotiations people make when integrating automated visualities into their private spaces. Though early in her career, Wellendorf’s work has already garnered attention (5 and 3 citations respectively), establishing her as an innovative voice whose interdisciplinary approach—blending art, technology, and social science—offers fresh perspectives on how we live with increasingly watchful domestic technologies.