surveillanceCulture

surveillance culture
jeremy bentham
philosopher
1748 - 1832
child prodigy - oxford at age of 12
family of lawyers - father was prosperous lawyer
disillusionment with law - spent his life campaigning
for changes and improvements
utilitarianism - the greatest happiness
for the greatest number
politically radical
welfare state
abolition of slavery
death penalty
animal welfare
rights of women
decriminalising homosexuality
link with UCL - university of london
the auto icon
arranged for his body to dissected
in front of his friends
body to be preserved
Bentham had intended the Auto-icon to incorporate his actual head,
mummified to resemble its appearance in life. However, Southwood Smith's
experimental efforts at mummification, based on practices of the
indigenous people of New Zealand and involving placing the head under an
air pump over sulphuric acid and simply drawing off the fluids, although
technically successful, left the head looking distastefully macabre, with
dried and darkened skin stretched tautly over the skull
wax head with real head at feet - on display in icl
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/who/autoicon/Virtual_Auto_Icon
naughty students
the panopticon
perhaps best known for ideas
surrounding prison reform
anti capital punishment
belief in reform rather than punishment
prison as reform
central to ideas was the panopticon
and idea of being watched - surveillance
The Panopticon ("all-seeing") functioned as a round-the-clock surveillance
machine. Its design ensured that no prisoner could ever see the 'inspector'
who conducted surveillance from the privileged central location within the
radial configuration. The prisoner could never know when he was being
surveilled -- mental uncertainty that in itself would prove to be a crucial
instrument of discipline.
French philosopher Michel Foucault described the implications of
'Panopticism' in his 1975 work Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
-"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state
of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic
functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is
permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the
perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary;
that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and
sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in
short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which
they are themselves the bearers. ….
Bentham envisaged not only venetian blinds on the windows of the central
observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at
right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors
but zig-zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in
a half-opened door would betray the presence of the guardian. …. in the
central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen."
contemporary resonance
george orwell - 1984
shepherd fairey - obey 1989
magic cards
relevance to contemporary culture
social media
Facebook
twitter
email
age related issues
surveillance culture
the law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/02/cctv-cameras-watching-surveillance
http://www.homecctvdirect.co.uk/home-cctv-uk-law.html
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/14/photographers-rights-the-ultimate-guide/
public access requests
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/cctv_code_of_practice_html/9_responsibilities.html
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/tons-and-tons-of-security-cameras-are-wide-open-to-hackers/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7351252.stm
http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/05/uk-surveillance-cameras-record.html
http://www.ehow.com/about_5103666_surveillance-camera.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_art
manu luksch
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/08/29/watching-the-watchers.html
http://cathiesummerhayes.wetpaint.com/page/Surveillance+Art.
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=facelessthemovie
http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=dpamanifesto
http://mmcsurveyofnewmedia.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/curatorial-project-exploring-surveillance-art/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARB6_NXHJn0
http://www.instructables.com/community/CCTV-video-sniffing-equipment/