Two topics I found to be very interesting in this chapter were the surveillance art installations and the broadcasting installations. Firstly, I thought the idea of surveillance art installations to be extremely cool. I had never really thought about the fact that the television has a mind of its own, and when we watch TV it is also watching us in return. This would completely turn the tables, making the television a voyeur into our lives rather than us practicing voyeurism into the lives of others (through the TV). Our voyeuristic tendencies when we watch TV are therefore "invaded" and are no longer private, causing us to be the ones watched, not the television.This article (http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/2010/12/interactive-surveillance-live-digital.html) is about a surveillance art installation that incorporates the viewers into the world of the installation, transforming them into the viewed and not the viewers.
I think a related subject to surveillance art installations are installations about broadcasting. Broadcasting is all about making stories public and sharing them with the world. When we watch the news we are voyeurs looking into the lives of other people around the world, but it is also interesting to think of it as the other people around the world looking into our lives. We could just as easily be broadcast to people of other countries, making it seem as though we are constantly being watched.
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