Humanizing the Narrative around Privacy & Surveillance
With our Surveillance Project, we will strengthen the human side of the narrative of privacy and surveillance. By the end of the semester, we will reflect upon different sharing mentalities and discuss their effect on us and the greater society with the help of our readings and previous engagement with surveillance technologies. Once more we will ask with whom, where, and when do we willingly share personal information? Part of your surveillance project is the podcast series “The Privacy Paradox: note to self.”
The Surveillance Project consists of Two Parts:
1. Documentation (Digital Part) Document each day of your project (data diary) and write down your findings. It is up to you how you want to document your project digitally. You can use our blog to incorporate images, videos, sounds, maps … be creative!
2. Reflection: Written reflection should be 3 pages long. The project is due on Tuesday, 8th of December at 3 pm.
You can choose one of the following project frameworks:
1) Sharing is Caring – The Quantified Self
2) Counter-Surveillance as a form of Protection
3) (In)Visibility as a Form of Protest.
Further Readings:
• David Lyon, “Resisting Surveillance,” in The Surveillance Studies Reader, ed. Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2007), 67–76.
• Monahan, Tori. “Counter-surveillance as Political Intervention?” Social Semiotics 16.4 (2006), 515534.
• Andrea Mubi, “Artveillance: At the Crossroads of Art and Surveillance.” Surveillance & Society: Special Issue on Surveillance, Performance and New Media Art. 7.2 (2010): 175–186.
• Hito Steyerl: “Being Invisible Can be Deadly,” TateShots, (2006), https://youtu.be/kKAKgrZZ_ww.
• “How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational.Mov File, Video (2013), 14 min, https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how- not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov- file-2013-51651.
https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how- not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov- file-2013-51651.
• Hasan M. Elahi, “FBI, here I am!” Ted Global (2011), https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi and his website http://elahi.umd.edu
