Wednesday, 29 July 2009

kollegin

gostando de ler a entrevista com a jill magid.

"I played with the camera’s political ambivalence: between its position as a tool that protects publicspace as ‘watched space’, or as a sign of watched space."

4 comments:

paoleb said...

Data Protection Act 1998 (a British act)

paoleb said...

Some activists based in
Liverpool remark that the cameras are symbols of hygienic space, in which “unwanteds”
are targeted and removed; or as marketing signs to businesses and consumers that the
city is now watched and thus safer. While I may agree with these ideas, the debates
around them run parallel to my own questions and desires. I was more concerned with
the size of the system and how the presence of so many cameras turned the city into a
movie set with 242 cameramen.

paoleb said...

I wanted to treat the system as a filmcrew making cinema.

paoleb said...

“I like to compare them to gargoyles,” Magid says. “They are visual Band-Aids that emptily represent safety.”