Issue 22
Surveillance
Issue 22
Welcome to our Surveillance issue. This issue examines the presence of surveillance around us—from the way we are being monitored in the physical and virtual world, to the potential of using the data we generate to redefine our relationship to the built environment. Organized as a sequence of our relationship with data, the contributions address monitoring, collecting, archiving, and using the traces that we leave, followed by camouflaging and deleting the traces that we leave. By exploring different meanings of surveillance, this issue seeks to generate a constructive conversation about the history, policies, tools, and applications of the information that we generate and how those aspects are manifested in our daily lives.
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities
Iker Gil interviews John Tolva
Project by photographer Henrietta Williams and mapmaker George Gingell
THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
Project by Jens Sundheim and Bernhard Reuss
Politicians Under Surveillance
Project by Luzinterruptus with photography by Gustavo Sanabria
Intelligence Artifacts: A Selection of Objects from the CIA’s Museum
Selection of several artifacts that were designed and used for intelligence operations during the twentieth century
Essay and graphics by Ruben Pater
Let’s See Some Tits: Norway’s Distinctly Different Web Wildlife Program
Essay by Isaac Rooks
Surveillance songs by The Police, Rockwell, and St Vincent
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Iker Gil interviews Simon Menner
Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage
Essay by Roy R. Behrens
Project by Allison Greenwald
Essay by Christo de Klerk
We asked a few great Chicago designers to give us their view of surveillance