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Seeta Peňa Gagnadharan, Joining the Surveillance
Society? New Internet Users in an Age of Tracking.
(New America Foundation, 2013, PDF, 18 pp.). An indepth
look at surveillance and privacy problems faced
by individuals who turn to digital literacy organizations
for training and Internet access.
Wolfgang Sofsky, Privacy: A Manifesto (Princeton
University Press, 2008.) An exploration of the history
of the status of privacy in society, and deconstruction
of the social, political and technological forces eroding
privacy today. First chapter available free online as
HTML or PDF download.
Daniel J. Solove, numerous publications on surveillance
and privacy from a legal perspective. Solov is a
professor of law at George Washington University Law
School in Washington, DC.
MUSEUM EXAMPLES
In August 2013 the NEW MUSEUM debuted
the Privacy Gift Shop, a pop-up store featuring
“stealth wear” by artist Adam Harvey and
fashion designer Johanna Bloomfield. The
project was designed to promote conversation
about domestic and international surveillance
and threats to individual privacy.
The JEWISH MUSEUM decided to remove
photographs from the exhibit “Composed:
Identity, Politics, Sex” after receiving complaints
from men who appeared in the photos.
The artist, Marc Adelman, had appropriated
the images from a gay Internet dating site.
The museum positioned their decision as a
response to “complex issues of privacy, privacy
expectations regarding photos made available
on social media, personal safety, and the consequences
of image appropriation in the digital
age,” but Adelman took issue with the decision,
saying he felt that the work itself was an appropriate
way to explore those very concerns.
A number of recent museum exhibits have
explored the history of surveillance and its
appropriation by artists. The NORTHERN
ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
presented "On Watching and Being Seen" in
fall 2013. The exhibit and accompanying film
series explored the impact of social media
and surveillance technology on voyeurism
and exhibitionism. Works included dot paintings
by Houston artist William Betts derived
from public surveillance camera footage, and
embroidered drawings by Chicago-based Kathy
Halper of intimate Facebook posts by young
adults. In 2010 the TATE MODERN originated
“Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance
& the Camera”, exploring the history of covert
photography as well as current issues related to
individual rights versus security in an age of
terrorism. The exhibit subsequently went on
tour to the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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