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Modern safety concerns have led to an increase in the use of surveillance
technologies. Corporations, We borrow from the strategic and tactical approach of militarists.
Eschewing a discussion of modern This points to a larger question of the role of time in surveillance. Georg Lukacs
sums up the The word "clock" derives from words that mean "bell" in old French, German, Irish,
and Latin, to name
campuses and homeowners are concerned with who
enters their environs and when. As digital technology
moves into video,
the realms of video-conferencing and video surveillance blur. Many people
are
interested in the social issues surrounding such tendencies. This
project will explore the area of video
surveillance - information
gathering, processing and display. The project deals with the multiple
presence of others (known and unknown), watching and being watched and finally,
seeing oneself in space
merge with others in space and time.
weapons, OBSurveillance pinpoints
an invisible element: Time. Surveillance tapes are recorded via
time-sequencing
frame-by-frame switchers with time-display text. But tapes are generally
duplicated
based on recorded events [crime, disturbance] - or the event-potential
of the surveilled location
[corporate headquarters, intelligence facilities...].
In this sense, it may be that time is not a sequence of
events, but events
themselves. Event-time is the kind of time that McLuhan called oral or
tactile. The TV
- "Big Brother for watching" - is full of events tailor-made
for those moments when we find ourselves
with no other events to turn to.
post-industrial critique of time when he writes, "In this environment
where time is transformed into
abstract, exactly measurable, physical space, an
environment at once the cause and the effect of
scientifically fragmented and
specialized production of the object of labor..."
According to geographer
David Harvey, "18th century clocks and bells that called
the workers to labour and merchants to the
market" separated the peasantry "from
the 'natural' rhythms of agrarian life, and divorced from
religious significations,
merchants and masters created a new 'chronological net' in which daily life
was caught."
a few. Do we watch the clock or does the watch clock us?
Larger questions about time will be posed to
random segments of the human race
in the project Unlimited Free Time. (See Unlimited Free Space.)
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