In the installation Maelstrom, viewers get to experience their personal data being shared among 40+ machines created by the artist. Each machine spreads rumors to the other machines, using short-range radios and a complex cascading graph structure negotiated among the machines–designed by the artist to replicate the feeling of being at the center of a social media conspiracy theory.The data is both gathered from visitors’ devices radio transmissions–freely available for all to listen to, as is currently used by both government and commercial tracking systems–and collected from willing visitors by prompts on the devices present in the installation. No data is retained for longer than 15 minutes. 7 p.m. Free. RhizomeDC: 6950 Maple St. NW, DC; www.rhizomedc.org // @rhizome_dc