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Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real

Street Ghosts, Paolo Cirio, street art, net art, street_ghosts_paolo_cirio.jpg

The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:35 PM - Oct 15/2012
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art . hacktivism . interactive . privacy . surveillance

Paranoid Shelter, invisibly boxed

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A high density of monitoring devices crowds the space of the installation "Paranoid Shelter", a project by the architecture research group fabric | ch. Despite the word "shelter" reminding of an atavistic sense of protection given by a closed and protected space, the skeletal appearance of the work is already alienating. The installation space is in fact occupied by three tall posts, dark and imposing, from which ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:18 PM - May 28/2012
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art . hacktivism . surveillance

I-R.A.S.C., wearable surveillance protection

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I-R.A.S.C. is a device that protects against infrared surveillance cameras. It is in fact composed of an elastic wearable band equipped with special LEDs that emit infrared rays that are invisible to the naked eye because their frequency is between 780 and 1 mm. But the reception of the image on the surveillance cameras is amended and a ball of light replaces the face of the person framed. The device ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:29 PM - Mar 14/2012
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art . robot . surveillance

Zwischenräume, the deviant surveillance

Zwischenräume, Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders, art, surveillance, Valentina Culatti, Zwischenraume.jpg

We generally think of surveillance as a detached gaze, a remote form of watching. The fact that cameras record information continuously and unobtrusively somehow makes their presence elusive. And the idea of data being analyzed only when needed makes these devices feel innocuous. However the gaze of surveillance is always directed and motivated by human desires - it is a form of voyeurism. What ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:35 PM - Feb 8/2012
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book . net . surveillance

Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain - Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262514354, 656 pages, April 30, 2010, English
Two years after "Access Denied", the same team of editors have published a new thick book about internet censorship and filtering. It's another project by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a consortium of academics focused on free speech and government interactions with the Internet. This sequel is divided in two parts. The first includes "theory and analysis" with very informative essays that the editors also ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:58 AM - Feb 11/2011
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art . privacy . surveillance

Panopticons, surveillance birds

Panopticons, Thomas voor 't Hekke, Bas van Oerle, panopticons.jpg

Bentham's eighteenth-century dystopia, the idea of an architectural space that allows total visibility and control, returns in the project Panopticons made by a couple of Dutch students at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU): Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle. In this modern take the Panopticon is no longer a prison, but it becomes a system of winged ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:40 AM - Sep 24/2010
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