Art in a Time of Surveillance

[JEB]

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/13/art-surveillance-explored-artists/

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You can’t throw a rock these days without hitting a surveillance art project, and the remarkable thing is that so much of it is so good. Some of the Snowden era’s sharpest interrogations of collect-it-all tracking by corporations and the government are to be found in galleries and other art spaces. They are the opposite of the acronym-laden news stories we read: NSA, FISA, PGP, PRISM, ACLU, EFF, SIGINT, GCHQ, TOR, FOIA, HTTPS, are you still awake? They are playful, invasive and eerie, and best of all they are graphically visual. With a transgressive edge that journalism struggles to match, they creatively challenge what it means to be human in a time of data.

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The latest wave of surveillance art has been evident for a number of years, especially since 9/11, which increased the powers and budgets of intelligence agencies in the United States and elsewhere. The wave seems to have grown larger in the wake of the leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and this is fortunate. Pervasive surveillance is oddly paralyzing—it is the digital equivalent of the aphorism about genocide, “The death of one man is a tragedy and the death of a million is a statistic.” The more we learn of its vast scope, the more we seem dulled to it. We need to see it anew.

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Much more including lots of links to projects at the link. Some pretty creative stuff that is very revealing about our situation today.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/13/art-surveillance-explored-artists/

[Octafish]

1. ''Watching You Watching Me''...Wow!

From the OP's link to: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/moving-walls/22

[Octafish]

2. The Drone's Eye View

A wedding in Central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In December 2013, a U.S. drone reportedly struck a wedding in Radda, in central Yemen, killing 12 people and injuring 14.

© Tomas van Houtryve

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/moving-walls/22/blue-sky-days

[JEB]

3. Thanks for adding these links.

Art has a way of revealing the truth hidden in the confusion of media and our complicated lives. Making sense of things even if it is a sad or scary sense.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Surveillance art has been around for a long while...

Yet they still want to give Snowden credit for it...