Technology in recent years has advanced rapidly, for better or for worse. The internet spawned a wealth of knowledge and conversation, but the public has become a target for advertising and surveillance. There are websites that catalog cameras around the world; some voluntarily available and some not. Although they’re in public, is it alright to record their actions? On social media we offer our lives to the public, is it alright for corporations to harvest and sell our data to the highest bidder?
Pictured are all security cameras involuntarily open to the public.
After hours of looking through cameras, I realized that often times the cameras would be an environment that is completely empty. I was starting to place a lot of importance of anyone in view, and rather than retain any information about them, they became an encapsulation for humanity. In order to represent this feeling, I 3D modeled a human figure to place into different locations and would later become a feature in a lot of my work. We are the green figure looking at ourselves through these cameras.