Surveillance | The Networked Social

Little Brothers are watching you

Little Brother (Doctorow)
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

We jump back in time from data control and network surveillance (previous classes) back to camera surveillance

The All-seeing eye, devine perspective

Panopticum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Benthem (18th century sociollogist)
centrally controlled prison space, can be overseen from one point

Ducpetiaux is the first general inspector of the new state of Belgium in 1830. Introducing the panoptic prison model in Belgium (Forest / Saint Gilles) And also remodels areas in the city where transparancy and patronage can be executed.
(garden cities, cité jardins: La Roue, Scheut (Anderlecht) )

“En matière pénitentiaire, Ducpétiaux pensait que la prison devait régénérer les détenus, régénération passant par l’expiation, l’amendement, l’organisation du travail, l’éducation, l’enseignement religieux élémentaire et l’enseignement industriel et enfin l’isolement continuel des prisonniers2. En complément de l’action des prisons, il voyait dans le patronage des prisonniers libérés un moyen de réinsertion sociale.”

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Ducp%C3%A9tiaux

From this point of view controlling citizens is a logic step.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

Countersurveillance
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** David Brin:
The chief thing accomplished by Privacy Laws is to make the (spy) bugs smaller: “A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs — microphones and lenses and so forth — are that much harder to spot.”

control the controller
surveill the surveiller
→ sousveillance /

Option 1: a perfect Orwellian hegemony, empowered by universal elite omniscience…

Option 2: a wide open citizen-driven society, empowered by sousveillance and universal omniscience.

Artists using surveillance camera’s

Surveillance Camera Players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtntSJc0a4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg950YgmN6k

Ambient TV,

Manifesto for CCTV filmmakers
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=faceless

Faceless by Manu Luksch
(trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzJCeGYgbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2ZLGQli00

Essay over surveillance camera cinema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132N4kMBUPk

Bitnik
Trail of images
https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/c/
Surveillance chess:
https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/s/

Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley
Street with a view
http://benkinsley.com/street-with-a-view/

Stare / Ballades sous surveillance video
Peter Westenberg, Denis Devos, Julien Pierret, Franck Dumortier