Art
How Did We Get to a World of Hyper-Surveillance?
At the Wende Museum, contemporary art is cleverly interspersed among archival surveillance artifacts.
Surveillance
Books
The Unnatural Link Between Mothering and Technological Surveillance
Supervision provided me, as a curator/new mom, an entry point into how the labor that is mothering intersects with technology and surveillance.
Art
Artist Slammed for Matching Instagram Photos to Open-Camera Footage
Critics of the project say artist Dries Depoorter is engaging dangerously with surveillance culture.
Interview
Theo Anthony on How the History of Cinema Led to the Modern Surveillance State
The filmmaker talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary All Light, Everywhere and incorporating theory into his practice.
Film
The Entanglements Between Policing, Surveillance, and Moving Images
Theo Anthony unpacks the fraught history that has brought us the body camera in his documentary All Light, Everywhere, which recently premiered at Sundance.
Opinion
The Disconcerting Implications of Drone Photography
Using drone technology to photograph protests may be enticing at first, but such aerial images are also used for surveillance by law enforcement.
Art
Decode This New Video Game's Story Using Surveillance Footage
The new game Telling Lies turns players into detectives, having them sort through surveillance footage to understand what to look for and find the truth.
Interview
Want a Smart Home Assistant? Invite This Artist to Watch You for Three Days Instead
Artist Lauren McCarthy wants to become your personal virtual assistant, but you have to invite her in.
Art
In the Arizona Desert, Artists Rediscover Relics of a Cold War Satellite Program
Julie Anand and Damon Sauer are photographing the x-shaped calibration markers from a once top-secret spying project by the US government.
Art
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Turn Surveillance into a Gimmick
Their new installation at the Park Avenue Armory features drones and facial-recognition technology, yet seems to have no politics at all.
Art
Before Protesting at the Republican National Convention, Learn to Protect Your Phone
CLEVELAND — If you’re a smartphone-wielding protestor in Cleveland this week, you might want to make a pit stop at SPACES on your way downtown to the Republican National Convention.
Art
Following Sophie Calle
In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day.