Are our privacy rights vanishing in a technological age? Do surveillance cameras make us safer? Have we mutated into a surveillance society?
The “Watch the Watchers!” series originated after 9/11, 2001 when the number of surveillance cameras in New York City skyrocketed.
As a society, we have become obsessed with the gaze of the video-camera, not only because we perceive that it brings us “security” but also because we are fascinated by the visual representations of ourselves. Today, we are very much a culture of voyeurs.
I am interested in making art out of the technology that watches over us, aiming to explore a surveillance-saturated global culture, with an aesthetic dimension. The appropriation of digital images in art is a phenomenon new to the twentieth century. I am intrigued by the technique of layering digital media and the aspects of appropriation while embracing the use of contemporary technologies like the Internet.