Life: A User’s Manual (broadcasting CCTV footage)

Brief description

The artist moves around the city capturing CCTV camera footage with a video transmitter receiving the material that is transmitted wireless on a publicly available narrow band of the broadcasting spectrum. The video footage captured from security cameras can be seen on a screen placed in a suitcase that the artist is  dragging along on the street of the city where she is performing. Hacking into the city's surveillance assemblage reveals an alternate view of the city. Observers of the performance could follow the broadcasting devise and see material from "urban environments, the café, the home, the apartment building, the office, the store, the bar, the hallway, the entrance, the parking lot and the street."(1) The performances took place in different cities between 2003 and 2006.

Source: (http://www.ubermatic.lftk.org/blog/?p=221)

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
Life: A User’s Manual Art, Video art, Performance art Michelle Teran
Who does what?
Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.

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