Linking the Links (but who watches the links?)

Here is a direct link to R Gillies post which is directly related to my other project work. It discusses it in realtion to the very interesting video art of Kimjoosa. The hit the photo for Rachel's post...



Hit here for the article Rachel references on the Guardian website:

Thanks Jesse!

Images...

The Space itself marked out by me. Photos not in chronological order.





I marked off an approximately 1 metre by 2 metres on the footpath next to an entrance way on the north side of W47th Street, Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, MO. It was a blank piece of concrete, on my right were steps leading to another road, to my left was an entrance way that eventually lead to the doors for a parking building. The wall i was in front of was blank and not marked with any signage. But very interestingly on the wall above me there was a small dome security / surveillance camera.
In the course of the 25 minutes that i took to act out this securing of public space i was approached by 3 groups of people, all genuinely believing that i was a security guard employed by the Plaza.


Panorama taken from inside the space that was guarded/ reclaimed from the authority of The Plaza:


Some of the video footage from this piece can be viewed here... [CLICK_ME]

Thanks to A.C.E who did an epic job of filming and photographing!

Sometimes i like to play dress ups...

Your banned, your all banned, Get out.

Woo now they can see everything...

This is pulled right of stuff, click to jump straight to the article.
They want to install cctv cameras around Queenstowns waterways in order to crack down on boaties braking the rules, and back up accusations with "...solid video proof..."
I just thought this was the best quote from Andy Brinsley the Director of Kawarau Jet boating operations:
"The [harbormaster] can't be everywhere simultaneously."


I just thought that was a great line. Is that what surveillance systems are trying to acheive? The idea that they can be everywhere simultaneously>? watching all from a point of power? Shit, does this sound Orwellian to anybody else? Not to mention the fact that lakes and rivers are right in that gray zone that may, with measures like this flick over into that realm of private and controlled space....

Wellington City Council...what the hell?!

Thanks Ange for throwing me this link. The wellington City Council have just installed 4 "high resolution" ( how high, i want details dammit!) CCTV cameras in order to track parking offenders and issue tickets based on details pulled from the camera feed. The 3 News article (linked off the image) talks about how they will be recorded continuously and allow the number plates of people parking illegally and in particular, cab drivers causing delays and problems on weekend nights.

The best part of the story is when the specifically say that the Council sort legal advice to ensure that the cameras are not a breach of privacy! The common rule seems to be that if you are in a public place then you are subject to being photographed at any time but this whole argument falls on its face when you think about how public space, as have often said, does not truly exist!
This sort of camera system smacks of the style of CCTV surveillance that is now commonplace in London and other parts of the UK; Ubiquitous and Orwellian...