Doctor Daniel Buzzo Daniel.Buzzo@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
Signs of surveillance
Buzzo, Daniel
Authors
Contributors
Rae Earnshaw
Editor
Susan Liggett
Editor
Peter Excell
Editor
Daniel Thalmann
Editor
Abstract
This writing discusses the challenges of working with complex digital in- formation, visual images, meta-data and temporal and geo-spatial information, as raw materials for artistic expression. In the chapter the reader will have an insight into the thought process and working practice, artistic and technical, of forming in- formation into a recognisable body of work and processing both the content and the form of the work into an emotional, reflective experience. Discussing the challenges of working with external, commercial software frameworks and web services and the challenge of dealing with the brittleness of digital things but also the ’semantic affordance’ offered by computer systems in working at a conceptual level with art materials. The ’Signs of Surveillance’ project originated as a photographic obser- vation and collation activity in early 2015 and has grown to a complex digital web and installation live visualisation project. Since that time thousands of photographs of signs of surveillance, those warning signs indicating an area or activity is being monitored by video-camera, have been captured in more than 15 countries includ- ing Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Ko- rea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and UK. This chapter dis- cusses the development of one aspect of this multi-part work, dealing directly with managing and manipulating a large body of digital data and working with complex visualisation systems and online and offline digital distribution technology.
Citation
Buzzo, D. (2020). Signs of surveillance. In R. Earnshaw, S. Liggett, P. Excell, & D. Thalmann (Eds.), Technology, Design and the Arts—Opportunities and Challenges (159-181). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42097-0_10
Publication Date | Jun 23, 2020 |
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Deposit Date | Feb 10, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 159-181 |
Series Title | Springer Series on Cultural Computing |
Series ISSN | 2195-9056; 2195-9064 |
Edition | 1st |
Book Title | Technology, Design and the Arts—Opportunities and Challenges |
Chapter Number | 10 |
ISBN | 9783030420963 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42097-0_10 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7078232 |
Additional Information | More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10481 |
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