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i n d i v i d u a l e l e c t r i c , i . e .
O B S u r v e i l l a n c e - u n d e r c o v e r

3 S I T E S, 3 S T A G E S : the S T R E E T, the W E B, the A R T G A L L E R Y

S I TE 1) S e c r e t e y e o n t h e s t r e e t
W 38th Street, New York City, 1996-98

1) recorded events; multiple streams of edited material from various "events" recorded during
continuous video surveillance of the street

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armedBOX .

S I T E 2: P o r t a b l e B o x S i t e (P B S)

Part 1: "OBSurveillanceBOX 2.0", installation at Stipend Utstillingen,
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 1996

Part 2: "OBSurveillanceBOX 4.0, armed BOX", installation at Stipend Utstillingen,
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 1997 and Artists select Artists, Max Fish, New York, 1998

Part 3: i.e. web site

1) recorded material from PBS (hidden videocamera and microphone in portable box)
PBS visits a new location every week resulting in short audio and video streams on the net

2) dataveillance: audio/video database for PBS
methods of information retrieval, archival maintenance, histories
routine, recognition, mapping, sort, define, categorize, warn, detect

3) links to other surveillance sites

S I T E 3: o b s e r v e r s s u r v e y i n g t h e O B S u r v e i l l e d

Part 1: "OBSurveillanceBOX 3.0", installation at e~on, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 1997

Part 2: gallery installation New York, 1999

1) live video and sound from exhibition space

2) recorded video and audio from SITES 1 & 2

3) sensors tracking body movement in exhibit space determines switching of live and recorded
video and audio from each site

4) installation: Under Cover. The gallery turned into an obsessed voyeur's laboratory.

individual electric, i.e. is the collaboration between Vibeke Jensen of Norway and Norman
Douglas of the USA. Based in New York, our interdisciplinary explorations of the everyday uses of
human technologies have been seen in galleries, bars, nightclubs, museums, conferences and street
corners in New York City, Philadelphia, Mexico City, Barcelona, Goteborg, Trondheim and Graz.
Merging research in the "semiotics" of architecture and cinema, we explore perception and
representation in an increasingly diverse and atopographic culture. We do not break boundaries,
that's the hidden, every day work of society's countless members. Instead, we look at the effects of
these constant border crossings, reaping evidence of mutual assistance and shared events. We are
drawn to the bearer of language and gifts - technical and poetic. The separation of art and science,
from each other and from daily life, is as flimsy now as in the times of Galileo, Faraday and Vermeer.

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