why did you started working with closed circuit cameras?
I started working with ‘Net broadcasting’ as an art strategy around 1993, the equipment wasn’t ‘closed circuit cameras’, this was the early days of webcams, so the equipment plugged into the computer and the output went into chatrooms, CUseeme reflectors, BBS communities, etc.
In 1999 I got a small CCTV setup, 10 security cams, a multiplexer, some monitors etc. So the practice of surveillance was there before, just not the actual equipment.
The actual equipment brings with it a certain aesthetic.
Big Brother, The Real World, etc. These are the natural reactions of paranoid people everywhere to the ‘new covert’, the proliferation of surveillance in everyday life. Simultaneously, there is a ‘new open’ found in social network communities such as Myspace.com, etc. The ‘new open’ and the ‘new covert’, I’m interested in both sides of the territory.
>- since there are cameras, cookies, spyware, is there anymore a real >privacy inside the connected world
>of the net? or deciding to connect you’ve to lose a little bit of >privacy? What do you think about it?
Yeah, I agree it’s a predicament, A Lot of people thinking about this now. Online identity is a privileged stance. Privacy is a matter of economics, in that the rich and powerful can most effectively buy more privacy and/or manipulate information
(see: Google in China.). I’m not particularly optimistic about the future of privacy, but maybe that’s part of the story, maybe privacy is overrated J
I’m interested in both the dark and light side, there’s no way to close the open source.
