Surveillance 2004
net art

Surveillance is a net art installation which explores the phenomenon of webcam surveillance on the Internet and its capacity to conjoin spaces near and far – physical and virtual – public and private. Housed within a single webpage, 15 smaller windows are gradually assembled security-camera style into a 5×3 matrix offering a near real-time glimpse of webcams situated around the world.

Unlike the fast-paced abbreviated snapshot of life depicted in a typical news broadcast, Surveillance attempts to show the world unfolding and moving to its own rhythm. It offers the chance to observe with the attendant possibility for things to happen – or simply be.

Exhibition History:

Global Crossings Gallery, Curators: Dennis Summers and Choy Kok Kee
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Cambridge, MA, USA. 2006