Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance: (Due Jan 24)
Visionary,
1997
Sally Weare
The Iconos space satellite was recently bought by the US Military- this private company had supplied views of the earth to the public worldwide. It has 1 meter resolution - that is 3 feet folks - enough to see what you are wearing! "The world's most powerful civilian spacecraft", built by Lockheed Martin for Space Imaging is now a US Military craft.
What are the ramifications of this purchase? Why do some want to see, while others want us not to see. During the 1960's & 70's, activists used the saying "the whole world is watching" when photographic and video cameras were used for documentation of events for civil and human rights.We now have the tools to see everywhere on the face of the globe, but we do not have access to the visual data.
Using images from satellites
or other visualizations of global surveillance make a visual statement about
a specific geographic area that has personal significance to you. Use scale-
take two different photograps (for instance one of a satelite image and one
of you or your house or residence). Scale them unusually so that new meanings
emerge which challenge our perception of the accepted world. Color -
selectivey recolor specific aspects of this image for emphasis.
Image resources:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com
http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news/news47.html
http://www.wnyc.org/new/talk/onthemedia/transcripts_102701_shutter.html
http://www.geowarn.org/projectresearch.htm
http://www.eomonline.com/Common/currentissues/June01/thierry.htm
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/14/10131.html
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_sentinels_011010-1.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/satellite_firefighters_010821-1.html