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<nettime> Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield. |
Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield. The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=338 Review by Marc Garrett. Exploits in the Wireless City is the 4th Radiator festival and symposium to date, which lasted between 13-24 January 2009, 10 days of Exhibitions, Events, Screenings, Music, Artists' Talks and more. Marc writes about the commission for the festival 'Going Underground', enquiring how the works relate to the theme of Surveillance and Sousveillance. In this article, you will also find reviews on work by Stanza, The Office of Community Sousveillance, Folke Kobberling & Martin Kaltwasser. "A contemporary enactment of the Orwellian vision is now here and for real, millions of lensed spectres watch our every move around the country in the streets, as the constant drone of shopping serfs waddle around in their state imposed panopticon daze. In George Orwell's visionary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the Thought Police could view and control citizens at any moment via a tele-screen, no one new whether they were being watched or not. Today, the UK Government is so rabid in its support of technocratic solutions to control its citizens, we are now the most watched soap opera by the powers that be on the planet. Us, who live in Britain are presently monitored by 4 million CCTV cameras, and if you happen to be living in London you are likely to be viewed on camera about 300 times a day." http://www.furtherfield.org ------------------------------> MORE INFO:> Reviews, interviews & articles: http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php About Furtherfield: Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing and asgaring platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. More About Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org