CCTV surveillance
system
Authorities from many countries
must have very low prices to install so many video cameras in the
street. It's very new phenomenon but it's on in each town I know:
London, Budapest, Lyon, Annecy, Grenoble, Nîmes (except in
the center of Chambéry -73, to small?)...
Those cameras are hidden like lamps, as you can see on the photos
(take a look at the 3rd and 4th: designers tried to hide them in
the World Heritage Sites of the UNESCO in Budapest and Lyon). Because
of that, most of the citizens do not notice those cameras.
Maybe some of them think that the camera are installed just to fight
against terrorism. I'm not sure about that. And that's why I am
working about it.
Thanks to artistic actions, I tried
to express my fear of this system and to create a debat between
people.
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First actions, in Budapest,
oct. 2005
- There are so much video cameras
in Budapest's center that I could localize only 5 zones in the north
of the 7th disctrict where you can not be seen by them. Helped by
Raynald Cany, I painted on the floor these 5 "Zone of no video
surveillance" that I found. I also draw a first map.
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