surveillance

There is an ongoing paradox in my work, which is, on the one hand, a lot of my pieces are about making tangible the mechanisms of control, tracking, pursuit, metrics. A lot of my works have this ominous, dark surveillance aspect to them.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2020s On-Chain Art: Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy

And at that point, data was wide open. It was pre-Snowden. It was pre-deep concerns about privacy and surveillance. And that was a huge difference at that moment than what's been happening in the last decade.

Christiane Paul, 2000s Tooling Era: Casey Reas, Golan Levin, Christiane Paul