Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level

Dickinson, R

Abstract

This statement explores the digital photo artwork Fear Filter which uses the UK Terror Threat Level as a source for a set of visualisation tools. It argues that the UK Terror Threat Level should be understood as part of the expansion of a range of security measures during the initial stages of the ‘War on Terror’, many of which seem to be more focused on the

production of fear and the performance of security than actually improving security. It

positions the artwork, Fear Filter, as offering a critical window onto these processes and

putting them to creative use in devising a new configuration between photography, terror and security.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 25, 2019
• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 9, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: May 28, 2019
• Journal: International Journal of Creative Media Research
• Publisher: Bath Spa University
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.07
• Keywords: digital art, contemporary art, security, data visualisation, computer vision
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/849719
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.07
• Contract Date: May 28, 2019