Surveillance Art and the Politics of Digital Mapping Technologies

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2016-08-28

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In a moment in which the technological agency is creating ways to undermine our capacities to discern vigilant systems, exercises of contestation over strategies and techniques of surveillance become a welcome domain of art. The focus on how artists are responding to issues involving the technology-based privilege of some to watch us and the power that such systems exert is put on Google and its digital mapping platform: the Google Earth.

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