Surveillance technology in artistic projects
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Carnivore is a software project based on the FBI surveillance software of the same name and created by the software collective RSG (Radical Software Group). Alex Galloway, one of the founding members of this collective tells us about the concept and the purpose that this project embraces. RSG made a version of FBI Carnivore also for carrying out surveillance on people, but they have a different perspective of it. Galloway tells us how they think surveillance is normally understood in society and the consequences of that when people's worries are reverting on to their own invasion of privacy.
Galloway worked for six years as former d irector of Content & Technology at the online platform for new media art, Rhizome.org. He is currently teaching digital media at New York University.
He is the author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT Press, 2004) and Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
Interviewed by Alba Colombo (Berlinale), and Pau Alsina, Professor of Humanities Studies (UOC), at Ars Electronica 2002.
Watch the video interview [YouTube - 7 min]
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