“Automata: Counter-Surveillance Using Public Space” presented by Mundy
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- ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Public Interventions
Presentation Title:
- Automata: Counter-Surveillance Using Public Space
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Abstract:
Automata is the working title for a counter-surveillance internet bot that will record and display the mutually-beneficial interrelationships between institutions for higher learning, the global defense industry, and world militaries. The proliferation of automated spying techniques on the part of government and corporate institutions has created an unequal flow of information. This bot acts to subvert these techniques in the most relevant way – by making data about the confluence of economic and violent power visible to the public at large for research, activism, and examination.