Saturday, November 8, 2008

Surveillance

What boundaries are to be drawn when art includes your personal life? A lot of artists create work that divulge the public to their most intimate secrets, and have no second thought about it. However, when surveillance comes into play, how far can an artist go before they break a boundary towards others?

I feel while surveillance is an interesting concept for artists to play with, it can lead to dangerous territories and even cause terrible consequences. While such consequences are obvious as shown in the videos presented, but I feel surveillance can be used in simple and non-harmful ways to produce interesting art, but that artists must tread carefully when entering this area.