One Nation Under Surveillance

Some cool Surveillance Cameras images:

One Nation Under Surveillance

Image by thealmightyprophetgitboy

Along the perimiter of the Faslane Naval Base, cameras every dozen yards turn ominously to watch the progress of every passing civilian. Our terrified leaders build vast cages and lock themselves in with the atrocities they have spawned, and jealously guard their imprisonment from those who would save them.

In the name of freedom, chain-link and razorwire sever the land from itself…

There can be no greater madness, no greater evil, than the fence.

America!

Image by Terriko

Submitted to AAW: Imprisonment

I’ve recently moved to the US from Canada as a visiting scholar and have found that there’s a lot of little culture-shock and WTF moments about my temporary new home. I’ve taken to exclaiming "America!" when there’s something inexplicable to me (have I mentioned I just finished my US taxes?) or something just seems quintessentially American.

We were at the zoo and I spotted this Bald Eagle living under video surveillance. A few weeks prior, I’d watched one flying free in Canada while out walking my grandmother’s dog. "America!" indeed.

Did you know? Apparently many of the free Bald Eagles in the US are Canadian transplants since populations up north were more healthy.

WIT: A wandering eye in the zoo. Cropped to emphasize the camera and the eagle, then tweaked the colour saturation/luminescence to make the Bald Eagle stand out just a little bit more.

Seiko Mikami-Desire of Codes

Image by Ars Electronica

Seiko Mikami’s large installation “Desire of Codes” demonstrates how the boundaries between the body of data in the virtual world and the physical body in the real world are becoming blurred in the context of Information Society.

The nightmarish setting of this interactive work consists of three parts: a white wall on which 90 insect feeler-like objects with build-in surveillance cameras are mounted (Ninety Wriggling Wall Units); six giant robot arms equipped with video cameras and laser projectors hanging from the ceiling (Six Multi-perspective Search Arms); and a round projection surface 3.5 meters in diameter. This Compound Eye Detector Screen resembles an insect’s multifaceted eyes.

credit: Ryuichi Maruo [YCAM]

One Nation Under Surveillance