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Marc Garrett, The 4th Radiator Festival on Furtherfield
April 7, 2009 - 6:59am -- further_bunny
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.
"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."
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.
"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."