A discussion about surveillance equipment and systems. The idea is to reverse the scheme of closed circuit television cameras, thus turning them into “open-circuit” television cameras. Simone’s deviating system explores new forms of narrative and reveals how public space is a direct result of negotiations – which are measured using codes – between desire, need, and randomness.
Sound design, application of videographisms, consulting and technological production: KAU Etnopop (Daniel Kau and Marcelo Reis).
Simone MichelinVisual artist, researcher and professor at the Fine Arts School at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, integrates the N-Imagem, ECO/UFRJ. She incorporates communication technologies and image production, performance, computer systems and architectural constructions in the production of situations within the scope of art.
Video in which the author plays the role of an employee accused by her boss of trying to incite a strike. The events were “filmed” by internal surveillance cameras and then edited. The work is an interpretation by the artist, of a true fact, which happened in 1998, in the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
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Coco Fusco, who is a Cuban writer and multimedia artist living in New York, presents conferences, performances, exhibitions and curatorship management programs in the United States, Europe, Canada, as well as in the southern part of Africa and in Latin America. He has a virtual lab in the Web, with publications, videos and projects.
The result of research carried out by Bambozziover the course ofthe four last years, the work discusses the control and surveillance systems in modern society. The images, which are recorded by a camera, are installed on a spy robot that moves around inside the installation area, are treated and reconditioned, revealing comically, the intrusive aspect of surveillance cameras.
See also ADA – Anarquitetura of Affection, Simone Michelin’s work that also discusses equipment and surveillance systems, creating “external” circuit cameras.
Lucas Bambozzi has a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Since the 80’s he has developed artistic studies and works around the expressiveness of audiovisual language, with emphasis on electronic media. He works in various media with different supports. He has participated on exhibitions in more than 30 countries.
