Art
Following Sophie Calle
In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day.
Surveillance
Art
Big Brother Can't See Through This Anti-Surveillance Coat
So you've covered up your laptop camera, switched to the anonymous web browser Tor, and removed your cell phone battery to thwart tracking — and you're still vulnerable to the prying eyes of Big Brother and friends.
Art
Laura Poitras’s Unimaginative Transition from the Screen to the Museum
Laura Poitras is an excellent filmmaker.
Art
The Webcam of an 18th-Century Philosopher's Skeleton
LONDON — Presiding over a busy University College London corridor is a man who's been dead for over 180 years.
Art
The Sublimity of the Surveillance State
In 1867 Timothy O’Sullivan headed out West.
News
Big Brother Is Bugging Ai Weiwei
“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.
Art
Diagnose Your Social Issues with Facial Recognition Technology
How much time would you say you spend on your phone each day? How frequently do you post updates to your social media accounts? How much do the unread notifications on your phone bother you?
News
Peekaboo, the NYPD Is Watching You!
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
In Brief
The San Francisco Police Department Has an Instagram Officer
If The Wire ran on television today, one of the characters would probably be an Instagram officer.
Art
Artist Stalks Himself So the FBI Doesn't Have to
If you want to know where Hasan Elahi is, just check his website.
Art
Art Projects That Toe the Line Between Sharing and Surveillance
This is going to sound absurd, but: who watches the watchers of the watchmen?
Art
Publicly Shaming the US’s Top Surveillance Officials with Street Art
New York-based artist Paolo Cirio is chastening key NSA, CIA, and FBI officials involved in the agencies' surveillance programs by finding and disseminating across the world snapshots of them in informal or intimate contexts.