Under Surveillance
The theater of the electronic control
Anna Maria Monteverdi
anyone remember the movie Public Enemies William Wellman and starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, disturbing story of a man drawn from video cameras, radio frequency detectors, electronic bugs recorders, satellite, high-sensitivity microphones that chased him in his every move. Film in addition to others that have addressed the issue of control, wiretapping, data security and espionage satellite: Coppola's The Conversation, Violence Wenders, Listening Giacomo Martelli.
On stage he recently occupied a U.S. company, The Builders Association directed by Marianne Weems specializes in theatrical and richly equipped with digital technology and big screens in 2003 has led to the award-winning RomaEuropa Alladeen , history is not so fairytale of employees at a call center in Bangalore, also won an Obie Award.
Supervision their latest production had its first toured in England, Australia and the United States. There are three stories about the invasion of privacy and control and real-time monitoring of free citizens without their authorization: lives that are transparent from the beginning by economic transactions and movements made by them, who arrives from the salary in their bank, by daily shopping, in their meetings in public space surveillance. Marianne Weems depicts stories of ordinary piracy figures in post-privacy era , tied to the wire (or file ...) of their common identity Personal information has become branched, uncontrollable, separate from the physical body and traveling thousands of processors in a space-invisible data. People who live in
white noise of constant dial-up, travelers stuck at the border crossing because of controls with personal information strictly those of the 'AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture). Marianne Weems (who worked as dramaturg and assistant director Elizabeth LeCompte, Richard Foreman) has given visibility and concreteness to these palpable databodies , this intangible infosphere through impressive architecture made of a wide screen, projection multiple video real time, animazioni computerizzate e un sistema di motion capture.
E' ormai prassi ricevere telefonate al nostro cellulare da parte di ditte in possesso del nostro numero che non fanno mistero di sapere a quale gestore telefonico siamo abbonati e quali siano i nostri costi, e che si dimostrano pronti a offrirci un miglior abbonamento.
Le carte di credito, i telepass personali, le tessere magnetiche, le schede SIM dei cellulari, le e-mail, la navigazione su Internet, la frequentazioni di siti web: la prima schedatura personale comincia da qua, attraverso programmi studiati per carpirci password, login, ID, codici di accesso.
Telecamere di sorveglianza, cimici web (sorta di invisibili cookies usati dalle aziende pubblicitarie per tenere track the movement of visitors, to analyze the habits, and selling the information to commercial companies), biometric techniques that allow for the recognition of the individual by identifying specific characteristics of the body, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking of objects and people through a microchip.
Today, there are detectors the size of a grain of rice, enough to be inserted under the skin and turn us into living locators. Sensational was the campaign in the United States to boycott Benetton announced the introduction of RFID tags in clothing for Aim logistics and marketing strategies (That would have resulted not only unwanted tracking United Colors of sweaters but also of those who wore them ...).
Among the artists working on computerized surveillance should be mentioned the Preemptive Media, U.S. media group which recently added artist Beatriz De Costa, leaked from the Critical Art Ensemble.
In Zapped! promote workshops to learn about RFID technology and learn how to build their own craft detector visual or auditory (in the form of a bracelet or keychain) to detect the presence of TAG. Finally, the Surveillance Camera Player: since 1996 build a theater allegations against performance-signs with slogans and silent actions in front of surveillance cameras located in different cities, to expose and denounce the presence of the reality of social control.
The group has drafted a real map regularly updated and published on the Internet and created a web application I-see, which allows anyone to calculate their own paths without Locchi fighter video. Look at Mark Deseriis:
What makes us a man who wears a mask of death in front of a surveillance camera? States, of course. The difference is that he knows to be an actor, while passers-by are just extras involuntary. Se � vero che ogni telecamera d� vita a un potenziale set, l'estensione della video-sorveglianza moltiplica anche gli spazi urbani dell'azione... Usando come palcoscenico le stazioni della metropolitana o gli spazi di Manhattan pi� transitati, le performance dei SCP si rivolgono a due pubblici diversi: da una parte, i passanti, �controllati�, monitorati dall'estesa rete di videosorveglianza; dall'altra i �controllori� i soli beneficiari dello spettacolo su schermo. In alcuni casi i monitor hanno anche output pubblico e quindi gli attivisti dei SCP possono riprenderli a loro volta per poi mettere a confronto la soggettiva del controllore e quella del controllato.
(M. Deseriis e G.Marano, Net art. The art of connection , Milano, Shake, 2003)
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