Posts Tagged: surveillance

Self-Surveillance, Step by Step: Tracking My COVID Walks

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, May 7, 2021

“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.” – Francis Alÿs Most of us are used to knowing that our devices track how we interact with them and monitor what we do when they are around. But the [...]

SIGNALS – an Exhibition of the Snowden Files in Art, Media and Archives

By Inte Gloerich, September 5, 2017

SIGNALS – an Exhibition of the Snowden Files in Art, Media and Archives September 12-26, 2017 | DIAMONDPAPER Studio | Köpenicker Straße 96 | Berlin For more information see www.berlinergazette.de/signals SIGNALS is the first project to critically engage with artists responding to the NSA-files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Considering the most relevant contexts in [...]

Art of Masks: Faceless at Mediamatic

By Daniel de Zeeuw, April 16, 2014

I recently visited Mediamatic Factory in order to preview its “Faceless” exhibition, which included a tour by the curator. Parallel to the exhibition, various interesting events took place, amongst which: a Facial Weaponization Suite and Computer Security workshop, and an evening of lectures by various artists and theorists.     Not untimely We all remember [...]

Enzensberger’s Rules for the Digital World: Defend Yourselves!

By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2014

Published February 28th, 2014, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany (original here). Unauthorized translation by Florian Cramer. Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Defend Yourselves! For those who aren’t nerds, hackers or cryptographers and have better things to do than keep up with the pitfalls of digitalization every hour, there are ten simple rules to resist exploitation and surveillance: [...]