Leslie & Ciska
THEME
Surveillance cameras / security cams
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- Security cameras are everywhere, but what are they looking at?
- How much of our comings and goings do they capture?
- How many times a day are you filmed by surveillance cameras?
- What does a surveillance camera look like?
- What happens exactly with those surveillance recordings?
- What is the purpose of surveillance cameras?
- What exactly is filmed?
- Is there any abuse made of surveillance cameras?
- Which road in the city can I take without being filmed?
- How to bypass/reduce the effectiveness/retain privacy against cameras?
EXAMPLES
CAMERA + ART
CAMERAS - Madrid (Spain)
by SpY
Installation of 150 fake security cameras on building facade with the intention of not watching over anything.
De Surveillance
by SNDRV & Showroom MAMA
The surveillance camera at the corner of Witte de Withstraat / Hartmansstraat in Rotterdam couldn’t handle a specific type of the color blue, a flaw discovered and exploited by Sander Veenhof in the context of the ‘For Security Reasons’ exhibition at Showroom MAMA.
A temporary ‘de-surveillance service point’ on the same streetcorner assisted visitors of the De Wereld van Witte de With festival to disappear from the Rotterdam surveillance camera network: by wearing or holding anything blue, they could become invisible.[1]
FACE
Camouflage from face detection
by CV Dazzle
Stealth Wear
by Adam Harvey
Fashion that will hide you from face-recognition technology
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FIELD RESEARCH
How many cameras are there on my way home
- Wijnhaven entrance 4
- Junction Mariniersweg - Burgemeester van Walsumweg
- In Harolds are several cameras (need to count) I went to Harolds art suplies store.
- On the facade of Casino 4
- Subway station entrance 1
- At the end of the escalator 1
- Check-in gates 1
- Platform 4
- In the subway 2 at a entrance
- Platform 4
- Check-out gates 1
- Station hal 2
- Subway station entrance 1
- Bus 3 - 4
How many times a day are you filmed by surveillance cameras?
We need to count and registrate the number of surveillance cameras we see while walking from A to B through the city centre.
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