WEEK 06: Tuesday 31 october 2006
Public space, surveillance and sousveillance photographic practices
browsing for class and to view on your own:
Orwellian projects
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008935.php
Hasan M. Elahi. tracking transience
http://trackingtransience.net/
Bowville. Surveillance photography.
http://www.bowville.net
http://www.leoalmanac.org/gallery/locative/bowville/index.htm
VOPOS> The two members of 0100101110101101.ORG are the cell under control. http://0100101110101101.org/home/vopos/index.html
Jill Magid. For the Liverpool Art Biennal, worked with the operators of the city’s CCTV
http://www.evidencelocker.net/story.php
http://www.systemazure.com/
SVEN
http://deprogramming.us/sven/
Marie Sester’s «Access,» (2003) which lets website users anonymously track individuals in public spaces by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight.
http://www.accessproject.net/
Simveillance (San Jose)
http://www.simgallery.net/sv.html
STEVE MANN. Equiveillance, sousveillace, surveillance
http://wearcam.org/
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Anders Albrechtslund and Linsey Dubbeld. The Plays and Arts of Surveillance: Studying Surveillance as Entertainment in Doing Surveillance Studies’ : Methodology Issue
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/Articles3(2)/entertainment.pdf
be prepared to discuss the way artists are extending usual aspect sof surveillance and the resembances of this to people’s use of webcams and phonecams
Sara Raza. Art in Security and Security in Art
http://www.elastic.org.uk/KISSS/saraRaza.html
Be prepared to comment on the use of photography in the projects analysedin the text
equiveillance/surveillance/ sousveillance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiveillance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance
DUE on class 7 | POST ON blog
Brief 4 – interacting: participatory tools
research: think in terms of the images you have selected and choose a strategy to sort it. Continue to document /discuss this process in your blog. (300-500w)
CLASS PRESENTATION: present your research to the class and defend your argument as to why this site-specific intervention is a critical spatial practice.
