Observer or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance (Due week 2, Jan 23/24)
Issues: Who is looking? Why? Where?
History/Theory: Contol of the gaze. Jeremy Bentham The Panopticon
Technique: low res/high res, compositon, scale, compositiing (cutting, feathering, pasting, quickmask, scale, color)
Does privacy exist? Using an image from either global surveillance satellites or internal visualizations of the physical body create a visual statement about a specific geographic or physical area that has personal significance to you. Use scale- take two different photographs (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.
Visionary,
1997
Sally Weare
Macro:
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 - 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 almost everywhere on the
face of the globe, but we do not have access to the visual data.
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
http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/default.htm
Micro:
Wherever humans go microbes will surely follow, and the Space Station is no exception.
The
National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project is the creation of anatomically detailed, three-dimensional
representations of normal male and female human bodies. The Visible Human Project
has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the body.
The
Visible Human Project - Visible Gallery
... Visible Human Project ® Gallery. The collection of images appearing
here is
a small sample of images from the Visible Human Project ® male dataset.
...