The Virtual Watchers (Surveilling the border)

Brief description

American volunteers monitoring US-Mexico border through an online platform that displayed live screenings of CCTV cameras. The volunteers could report to authorities anonymously if they noticed any suspicious activity on the border.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
The Virtual Watchers Art, Online art Joanna Moll
Who does what?
This technology
Surveillance cameras
Is
Streaming
This entity
Government
is/are
Controlling
This character
Immigrant group (The Virtual Watchers)
Is
Watched
Controlled
This entity
Humans in general
is/are
Monitoring
Reporting
Commenting
Aesthetic characteristics
Archive
Anonymized
Mosiac
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.
Record Status
One person feels OK with this
Notes
I put commenting to cover the discussions, jokes, questioning of authorities efficiency etc. Because it happened on Facebook and people were "commenting" on each others posts.
I put in the Aesthetic characteristics: Archive referring to mode of presentation as documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
So this would be an archive of the RedServant’s. Anonymized I use to describe how images of individuals are made non-identifiable.

Authored by

Linda
UUID
8b34aec3-f42e-4703-b83e-587500d51298
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 771800)