Denis Beaubois's In The Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall, from Tate Modern's Exposed exhibition
I think surveillance seems all the more interesting when considering the participation without consent. The article can be found on the guardian site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/may/28/tate-modern-surveillance-art
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I will be down in London later in the week, this is really relevant to the conversation.
"No one knows how many CCTV cameras there are in the UK. The best estimations put the number at 5m, or one camera for every 12 people. That's 20% of the world's CCTV cameras on a whingey North Sea island. It used to be that we were only six feet away from a rat. Now we're only six feet away from a camera. This exhibition showcases everything from super-secret American military bases, aerial landscapes of the Kuwaiti oil fields after the first Gulf War to people dogging in cars. It shows the theft of privacy and questions the basic notion of privacy."
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