CLASS 2 • Phenomenologies of Surveillance • Impact of Science Fiction + Cinema • A big picture look at the field
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What is phenomenology? Phenomenology is a philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness. |
SCREENINGS: Chapter 1 in CTRL[Space] The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola Nicholaes Maes, The Eavesdropper (1655)ï Ironic situation constructed by painter: we see what the eavesdropper cannot... Literary treatment: eavesdropping/spying • Orwell's totalitarian police state, Butler's treatment of communication failure in anarchist world without speech, Harry Caul in Coppola's The Conversation, and the Grimm Brothers' Rumpelstilzchen (discovery of name by spy) 1960s Happenings • Allan Kaprow and experiments in the everyday • List Center Stelarc's extra ear Paul Seidler: arrested for using GPS to track his ex-girlfriend Consumer-grade surveillance products: http://www.youdoitsecurity.com/ SWIPE at Turbulence and SWIPE main Tiffany Holmes: Nosce Te Ispum (2000) |
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| In class happening: Take a notebook and pen out on Michigan Avenue. Locate someone wearing a hat. Follow that person for a maximum of eight blocks writing down as much information as possible about that individual, their behavior, whether you think they are observing you, etc. Write down your route too. If you have a voice recorder or video camera feel free to tape your comments instead of writing them down. | |
Terms from readings: Levine essay: • dataveillance Zbikowski essay: • eavesdrop-how to define acoustic surveillance? |
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