Check out these Surveillance Cameras images:
Metro Police “Neighborhood” CCTV, North Capitol St. (Washington, DC)
Image by takomabibelot
For a view from the north, see: www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/285793556/
"CCTV – Neighborhood-Based Cameras:"
mpdc.dc.gov/page/cctv-neighborhood-based-cameras
"CCTV – Locations of Permanent Cameras:"
mpdc.dc.gov/page/cctv-locations-permanent-cameras
" “The goal of the CCTV system is to enhance the safety and security of residents, workers and visitors in the District of Columbia, while vigorously respecting the privacy rights of individuals,” the MPDC says. Mayor Williams’s proposal to increase the number of cameras in and use of the city’s surveillance system moves Washington, D.C., away from this goal. It would be better realized if the financial resources instead were used to hire more police officers to patrol the streets for illegal activity. The D.C. camera surveillance system should continue to be used for emergencies, and not be expanded to watch daily life." — D.C.’s Camera System Should Focus on Emergencies, Not Daily Life (December 2005) www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/1205/default….
old-and-new
Image by ebrkut
wwfsd? – cover your tracks
Image by finishing-school
acrylic on paper, 2007
echelon: who is watching you?
curated by Miguel Cortez
Opening Friday August 3 from 6pm-10pm
August 3 – September 1, 2007
"One cannot use spies without sagacity and knowledge, one cannot use spies without humanity and justice" – Sun Tzu
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense."
– George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
US surveillance began centuries ago with the concept of slave passes, which allowed slave-owners to monitor and control the mobility of their "chattel." Yet the slave pass system was sometimes subverted by the rare slaves who could write, such as Frederick Douglass. These literate slaves could create their own passes and might thus gain freedom for themselves and other slaves. Trafficking in passes and "free papers" soon became a burgeoning business, one that the slave system grappled with for nearly two centuries.
From slaves, the history of surveillance next turns to the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which restricted Chinese immigration to the United States. All Chinese laborers were forced to register with the government and subject themselves to being photographed and fingerprinted. A whole apparatus of surveillance was created.
In the 1920s, government surveillance spread to political radicals, especially workers trying to organize union activity. J. Edgar Hoover headed this government surveillance unit which would later become the FBI. As the 20th century advanced, computer technology proved a powerful enhancement to the regime of surveillance. This allowed most devices and databases to be monitored and evaluated, including automobiles, Your car can be tracked by GPS, and your spending habits can be gleaned from accessing your credit card records. Internet and email are monitored in the workplace and cameras are just about everywhere.
For this show artists will explore the history of surveillance and how this affects us at this present time. They will in turn create work dealing with this theme which will include 2D work, installation, and new media.
ARTISTS PARTICIPATING:
Anni Holm
Drew Browning and Annette Barbier
Dustin Klare
Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa
Finishing School
Gretel Garcia s
Ian Simmons
Noelle Mason
Patrick Lichty
Tom Sibley
T.W. Li
See photos from the opening HERE
See a review of this show in the Chicago Reader
See an article in Extra Newspaper
See a review in Flavorpill
Polvo, www.polvo.org
1458 W. 18th St., 1R Chicago, IL 60608
773.344.1940
info@polvo.org
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