Projects on surveillance, dataveillance and more

System-77 Civil Counter-Reconnaissance
http://s-77ccr.org/
S-77CCR is a tactical urban counter-surveillance systems for ground controlled UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and airborne drones to monitor public space"

Evidence Locker
http://www.evidencelocker.net/story.php
"Evidence Locker at Tate evokes the space of the CCTV monitoring station, and includes a soundtrack of the police log being read aloud, and CCTV footagefeaturing the artist obtained from the authorities..."

Bugmenot
http://www.bugmenot.com
You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com

Spio: a de-generative installation
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib4/press_release_spio.htm
SPIO is a 'self-surveilled' system based on a robotic device designed for capturing and processing images from a different perspective. An autonomous vacuum cleaner equipped with high sensibility and infra-red CCTV cameras scans the installation space through pre-defined movements and triggers sound and visual events..."

Big Brothers awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/en/
The BigBrotherAwards were launched to encourage public debate about privacy and data protection. It is their purpose to highlight abusive uses of technology and information..."

Track the trackers
http://www.t-t-trackers.net
TRACK-THE-TRACKERS" -- is a network installation consisting of tactical media components. The work makes use of existing personal technologies in conjunction with the satellite GPS infrastructure to provide participants with an expanded audible (not a visual) experience of the proliferation of video surveillance in the urban public sphere..."

bangbang
http://www.bureauit.org/bangbang/
Status report for BANGBANG camera network, a bit video report & archive system. Each webcam node is sensor-activated to report on sound of live gun fire; or other triggers and events of interest..."

Surveillance Camera Players
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

Related Exhibitions

Open_Source_Art_Hack - exhibition
http://netartcommons.walkerart.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/10/0515240
In an age of increased surveillance, rampant commercialization, and privatization of everything from language, to biological entities, to supposedly personal information, hacking--as an extreme art practice--can be a vital countermeasure...

Texts

Surveillance & Society
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/info.htm

Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze
http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/texts/deleuze.htm

Social Technologies. Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication by Inke Arnes
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/society/

Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance Interview with Jill Magid By Geert Lovink
http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg02266.html

 

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