CTRL [Space]
Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
ed. by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel ; texts by Beatriz Colomina ; Harun Farocki ; Tom Holert ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Beatriz Colomina, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel

Publication

Karlsruhe ; Cambridge MA. : ZKM : The MIT Press, 2002

Scope

655 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.

ISBN

0262621657

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CTRL [SPACE] investigates the state of panoptic art at a time when issues of security and civil liberties are on many people's minds. Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely more powerful "dataveillance" technologies, as an evolving arsenal of surrogate eyes and ears in our society shifts its focus from military to domestic space. Taking as its point of departure an architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham that became the model for an entire social regime, CTRL [SPACE] looks at the shifting relationships between design and power, imaging and oppression, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the photographs taken with hidden cameras by Walker Evans and Paul Strand to the appropriation of military satellite technology by Marko Peljhan a hundred years later, the works of a wide range of artists have explored the dynamics of watching and being watched. This book, along with the exhibition it accompanied, is the first state-of-the-art survey of ‘panopticism’—in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics, and satellite imaging.

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Person as subject

Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol, Peter Weibel, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Marko Peljhan, Jeremy Bentham, …[et al.]

Keywords

surveillance , fear

Location

Cabinet 11 - 4: Surveillance ; Veiligheid ; Angst

Remarks

Incl. Biographies of the artists and of the authors.