TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gschrey, Raul
T1  - Contemporary closed circuits – subversive dialogues : artistic strategies against surveillance
T2  - Surveillance & society : the fully peer-reviewed transdisciplinary online surveillance studies journal
N2  - In the past years surveillance, especially visual surveillance systems, have entered our cities and streets on a large scale. In my hometown Frankfurt/Main, the city centre and traffic-hubs have become zones under intensive surveillance. Over 120 cameras are installed at the central station, over 2,000 at the airport. In such highly surveilled places it is impossible to remain unobserved. The extent of surveillance in the United Kingdom and the USA offers a glance into the future. In these countries visual surveillance systems have spread into the farthest corners of cities and villages and into the privacy of their inhabitants.
This development calls for artistic endeavours which examine the phenomenon and raise people’s awareness of CCTV. Subversive strategies have to be developed which counter the inherent power relations of surveillance systems and foster self-confident, active behaviour towards the instruments of control.
The ongoing artistic project, Contemporary Closed Circuits – Subversive Dialogues, examines practices of contemporary visual surveillance. The works explore possibilities of interaction with and subversion of systems of observation. Most of the works were produced during the past three years as an artistic final thesis at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36632
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-366324
SN  - 1477-7487
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
SP  - 144
EP  - 164
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
ER  -