# Surveillance [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance) ( 20th century–present ) ## Description Surveillance, self-tracking, and the conversion of image and space into data — spanning the "quantified self" movement, artists who make themselves radically visible in response to state surveillance (Hasan Elahi), and the influence of camera presence on behavior. ## Key Tags #surveillance #self-tracking ## Essential Works - Wolf, Gary. "The Quantified Self." TED Talk. [https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_wolf_the_quantified_self](https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_wolf_the_quantified_self) - foundational statement of the quantified-self/self-tracking movement - Elahi, Hasan. "FBI, Here I Am." TED Talk. [https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi_fbi_here_i_am](https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi_fbi_here_i_am?language=en) - artist's project of radical self-surveillance after wrongful FBI suspicion; see [elahi.gmu.edu](https://elahi.gmu.edu/) - Marks, Peter. *Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film*. University Press, 2015. - Literary/film survey of surveillance's utopian and dystopian imaginaries ## Details Additional reference links (self-tracking / surveillance art): - [Jennifer Lyn Morone](http://jenniferlynmorone.com/) - artist who legally incorporated herself as a company, commodifying her own personal data - [Amalia Ulman, "Excellences and Perfections" archive via Rhizome](https://webenact.rhizome.org/excellences-and-perfections/20141014150552/http://instagram.com/amaliaulman) - Instagram performance-art project on self-surveillance and constructed identity - Video/link collection: [Cabinet Magazine, "Pilliod"](https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/pilliod.php); [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/98300179); [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/111503640); [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/16280427); [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/218765270); [shared Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC7Wr1_DD2YWp6xgG7UQdIak7eZ62N10N_d00uuZP5g/edit); [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjiWD7j0fM); [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxOynktWnMw) ### Key Theorists %% none yet %% ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet — Hasan Elahi and Jennifer Lyn Morone above, no vault pages yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Perpetual War]] - the surveillance/security state expands under conditions of perpetual war - [[Virtuality]] - shares an interest in the conversion of physical space into data/network space ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Jansen, Anja M., Ellen Giebels, Thomas J. L. Van Rompay, and Marianne Junger. "The Influence of the Presentation of Camera Surveillance on Cheating and Pro-Social Behavior." *Frontiers in Psychology* 9 (October 2018): 1937. [https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01937](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01937). Marks, Peter. *Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film*. 1st ed. University Press, 2015. [https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400206](https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400206). *SURVEILLANCE: Converting Image to Space, World to Data*. n.d. — source citation's author field is corrupted/garbled in the original record; title preserved as found