Make:

• Octopulse instrument
• The automata of Tom Haney
• Pill head / Numb skull
• Image transfer
• Singing with the fishes
• Steel sand-casting flask

Jill Magid is an artist who has done some awesome stuff with surveillance. She requested public camera footage of herself in London everyday for a year and actually became friends with the guys who monitor the video. Eventually, they would tell her which cameras had good light or move the cameras, cutting between feeds to follow her through the city as if editing a movie.

Check her out if thats your kind of thing.

-Jesse

Posted by: RocketGuy on May 31, 2008 at 11:35 AM

I like the idea, it reminds me a bit of the wired article about the guy who had a terrorist's name, so to prevent confusion he blitzed the FBI with every second of his life- self videotaping etc. Now he can fly with little trouble, he just calls his agent ahead of time, they're so bored with him that they just let him fly wherever.

Sort of conquering big brother by flooding the system with so much information that it just becomes untenable to do anything about it.

They wouldn't have requested the information under the FOI act - personal data is specifically restricted under that act - but the information could be requested under Section 7 of the Data Protection Act.

actually a big part of the video isn't from real cctv. eitheir they didn't get the tapes from some locations, or they weren't good enough (?).

You don't need to request the footage anyway you can just use a reciever and take it.
Wasn't there an article on makeblog alittle while ago about some art projects that used it?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2276010,00.html

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/09/in-linz-several.php

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