How Not to Be Seen—is a video that presents five lessons in invisibility.
1. Make something invisible for a camera,
2. Be invisible in plain sight,
3. Become invisible by becoming a picture,
4. Be invisible by disappearing, and
5. Become invisible by merging into a world made of pictures. (1)
It is a critical examination of the production, use, and circulation of images with a satirical take. Â
A central motive in the video is infrastructure to calibrate aerial images like the reappearing symbol of a patch in Claifornian dessert for U.S. Air Force to calibrate their analog surveillance cameras. The now obsolete infrastructure is replaced newer pixel patches to measure the resolution of satellite images. According to Steyer we need to become pixels to hide from the ever enhancing orbit in the sky.
Source(1): https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-see…