"Everywhere we go today we are constantly under surveillance by CCTV networks. Video Sniffin' is way to turn these security devices into your own environmental television studio by plucking the wireless signals from the air and capturing them to your own recording device. Why bother to buy a camera when there are so many already within the environment?"
The Art of Video Sniffing:
Video Sniffin’:
With the help of the art collective Mongrel, a group of homeless teenagers in Southend-on-Sea, made a short film using images they had taken from the very cameras that had been installed to spy on them. After a day on their bikes mapping the network of nearby cameras, they acted out a short script right there in the street, and then "borrowed" the images from CCTV.
Faceless:
A science-fiction movie set in a dystopian future in which time itself has been annulled, leading the world to exist in a state of permanent present. Although Luksch makes movies with CCTV, her methods are different from the sniffers'.
Over a four-year period, Luksch has spent hours performing on the London streets beneath the glare of CCTV cameras and then going through the protracted process of making formal requests to retrieve the images from the cameras' owners. When the tapes arrive, the faces of other passers-by are blanked out in order to protect their identities.
The Duellists:
In March 2007 MediaShed were invited to the Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre as part of the Futuresonic Festival to make a film combining free-media with free-running. Parkour or free-running involves fluid uninterrupted movement adapting motion to obstacles in the environment. Like free-media, free-running makes use of and re-enrgises the infrastructure of the city. Free-media film adapts environmental and discarded hardware to make filmmaking accessible to all.
Working with Southend based professional parkour breakin' crew Methods of Movement a choreographed performance was filmed in the shopping centre over three consecutive nights. The film was shot using only the existing in-house CCTV network of 160 cameras operated from the central control room, with a soundtrack created entirely from the foundsounds and noises recorded during the performance.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Chips:
RFIDs and the ever-growing digital trail of information that we leave behind suggest that in the near future our every action could be tracked, not just by the government but by anyone able to pay for that information as well.
Big Brother - Government Surveillance
CNBC report
SPYCHIPS website
Raising awareness on RFID
Talking Surveillance Cameras
Big Brother in action!
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