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. [1]
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.[2]
FACE
Camouflage from face detection
by CV Dazzle
Stealth Wear
by Adam Harvey
Fashion that will hide you from face-recognition technology. [4]
FACELESS
by Bogomir Doringer
Faceless explores the trend to hide, mask or edit the face. This trend arose at the beginning of the century in the arts, fashion and media. From avant-garde masks to art that forces open a dialogue with facial recognition software, surveillance cameras and drones. An exhibition about seduction, privacy and surveillance. With 100+ artworks, workshops on using anonymity as a form of protest, lectures and more.[5]
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ARTICLES
- During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible.
RESEARCH
What does a surveillance camera look like?
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 (when you enter the bus, in the middle and in the back of the bus.)
How many cameras are there at the ground-floor of the Markthal?
How many cameras are there at the blaak station area?
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.
