Hi Dave, Glad you like the piece. It evolved from thinking about 'privacy', and how many people seem quite content for 'some' of their life to be monitored. Much of the current discourse looks at obvious electronic signatures - e.g. email metadata: "I don't mind the government reading my emails, I have nothing to hide."
This work is trying to point out that every moment is potentially observable, and that things like email traffic are the tip of the iceberg in terms of what can be monitored. The act of viewing an artwork is an incredibly personal experience, and feels very private. The piece tries to show that even this kind of experience is observable and recordable. Everything we do is 'data' in some sense, it's just that we don't have enough of the right kind of sensors to capture it all - yet. Trying to have a 'private moment' in a state of constant surveillance begins to feel much more like the world of Winston Smith... shardcore On 3 Sep 2013, at 19:55, dave miller wrote: > thanks Rob > I like the first one - visually the painting its great and all very > well presented - but trouble is filming the face of the viewer isn't > enough I think - the state surveillance goes way deeper than that. I > still like it though > dave > > On 3 September 2013 17:32, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: >> "So, who’s watching you now? This painting." - >> >> http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2013/09/01/who-watches-the-watchers/ >> >> >> "Manifesta 10 Sticking With Russian Location Despite Gay Rights >> Supporters’ Petition" - >> >> http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/08/30/manifesta-10-sticking-with-russian-location-despite-gay-rights-supporters-petition/ >> >> >> Chimpanzee art prize. I prefer the first runner up - >> >> https://careersuicideblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/the-only-art-prize-that-matters/ >> >> >> "The Uncanny Valley might not actually exist" - >> >> http://boingboing.net/2013/09/03/the-uncanny-valley-might-not-a.html >> >> >> "The More Participants Used Facebook in a Michigan Study, the Worse They >> Felt" - >> >> http://singularityhub.com/2013/09/03/the-more-participants-used-facebook-in-a-michigan-study-the-worse-they-felt/ >> >> >> "Introducing “A free, libre and open Glossary”" - >> >> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/09/03/introducing-a-free-libre-and-open-glossary/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
