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1. List(en)ing Post

   Raley's essay is a careful and descriptive reading of Hansen and Rubin's interactive installation "Listening Post" paying particular attention to complexities of reading a textual work based on live information feeds contributed by an anonymous crowd, a literary work that is perceived as a live embodied experience in a multisensoral "polyattentive" environment.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 31.01.2011 - 12:04

2. Big Brother really is watching you: Literature in mobile dataspace

   The starting point for this essay is William Gibson's image of locative art in his latest two novels, Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010). In these books Gibson creates a very clear and comprehensive picture of the term 'locative art'. The essay compares this purely fictional image with the appearance of locative art and poetry in reality.

   Experiments with new technologies, such as mobile networks, Wifi and GPS for mobile and internet devices use and open urban data spaces for any digital application. It has become easy to trace users of these devices, and one is constantly tracked by GPS-satellites, surveillance cameras and other kind of signals and devices. Locative and adaptive poetry makes use of the interplay of urban space and transmitted data and renders it tangible for the player. Doing this makes the player aware of being under constant surveillance by "Big Brother" from outside and inside his gadget.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 11:39

3. Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:58

4. Narrative (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space

   Under consumer culture, self-surveillance—the act of submitting your own data to corporate interests like Amazon, TiVo or Facebook—becomes a revolutionary gesture of participation (Andrejevic 15)…or so corporate interests would have us believe. With the advent of social media, we now log our own data in the service of multinationals as we
   seemingly embrace the arrival of a technological Big Brother. Several digital media artists, however, have turned the tables or, more exactly, the camera on themselves by using digital media and self-surveillance as a means of creating new digital narratives.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2012 - 14:21

5. Controle, flagrante e prazer: Regimes escópicos e atencionais da vigilância nas cidades

   O artigo analisa regimes escópicos e atencionais presentes em dispositivos e práticas de vigilância nas cidades contemporâneas. Pretende-se mostrar como tais regimes envolvem não apenas procedimentos de controle, mas também circuitos de prazer, atualizando as relações entre vigilância e espetáculo na cultura contemporânea. Nesta mistura de controle e prazer, destacam-se uma lógica e uma estética do flagrante, presentes no olhar e na atenção vigilantes sobre a cidade e os indivíduos que nela circulam. Três campos de análise serão privilegiados: a incorporação da videovigilância aos espaços públicos e semipúblicos, a produção e difusão de imagens amadoras e os sistemas informacionais e cartográficos de visualização do espaço urbano.

   Luciana Gattass - 07.11.2012 - 15:00

6. I like IRC & SMS

   Rita Raley's presentation focuses on the use of IRC and SMS in multimedia installations, net-based projects, and street performances. Projects discussed will likely include "Listening Post" (Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin), "RE:Positioning Fear" (Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), "Urban Scrawl" (Sushma Madan and Neil Noakes), "TXTual Healing" (Paul Notzold), and "Simple Text" (Family Filter). While the chat messages used in "Listening Post" are datamined rather than solicited, the other projects are instances of user-driven media. One clear tension to explore, then, will be that between surveillance and participatory culture. Other themes and issues will include public vs. private space, locative media, and electronic English.

   Scott Rettberg - 07.01.2013 - 16:12

7. Naked in the 'Nonopticon'

   Siva Vaidhyanathan has an exceptionally good article about privacy in the current The Chronicle of Higher Education.

   Naked in the ‘Nonopticon’, Surveillance and marketing combine to strip away our privacy By Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Chronicle Review" Volume 54, Issue 23, Page B7, (February 15, 2008). [no subscription requred]
   "The Nonopticon" is a state of being watched without knowing that you are being watched or at least not knowing the extent to which you are being watched. Reviewing the book Privacy in Peril by sociologist James B. Rule, he says:

   Every incentive in a market economy pushes companies to collect more and better data on us. Every incentive in a state bureaucracy encourages extensive surveillance. Only widespread political action can put a stop to it. Small changes, like better privacy policies by companies like Google and Amazon.com, are not going to make much difference in the long run, Rule argues. The challenge is too large and the risks too great.

   (http://freegovinfo.info/node/1625)

   Sumeya Hassan - 19.05.2015 - 12:48

8. London CryptoFestival 2013

   Freaked out by spiralling revelations of NSA surveillance? Worried that the spooks have subverted the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered panopticon? Or simply creeped out by the way services like Facebook & Gmail track everything you do so they can profile you for advertising?

   Whatever your paranoia, now is not the time to give up on the internet. It's time for a CryptoFestival! On November 30th we're coming together to build on the success of the CryptoParty movement and to reclaim our right to communicate and experiment on the internet.

   CryptoParties have taught thousands of people the basic ways of protecting themselves and their data from intrusive surveillance. London CryptoFestival will have skill-sharing sessions on how to have private conversations over instant messaging, how to encrypt emails, how to browse anonymously and how to reliably encrypt your hard disk amongst other things. It's peer-against-fear; the self-organised activity of people teaching each other essential privacy skills.

   Hannah Ackermans - 31.12.2015 - 13:57

9. PRISM Breakup

   On October 4–6, 2013, Eyebeam hosted the first event of its kind, PRISM Breakup, a series of art and technology events dedicated to exploring and providing forms of protection from surveillance. This event came about in part from Eyebeam’s mission to support the work of artists who critically expose technologies and examine their relationship to society, as well as offering continued support to its alumni following their residencies. The gathering brought together a wide spectrum of artists, hackers, academics, activists, security analysts and journalists for a long weekend of meaningful conversation, hands-on workshops, and an art exhibition that was open October 4–12. (Source: http://prismbreakup.org/)

   Hannah Ackermans - 31.12.2015 - 14:10

10. Information Wants to Be Free, Or Does It?: The Ethics of Datafication

    “More is not necessarily more. Faster is not necessarily better. Big data is not necessarily better.” In the effort to capture and make available data about people, digital humanities scholars must now weigh the decisions of what and what not to share. Geoffrey Rockwell and Bettina Berendt address the new ethical issues around “datafication” in an age of surveillance.

    (Source: EBR)

    Filip Falk - 15.12.2017 - 17:48