global gaze, 2024

GAZE & SURVEILLANCE

What if WE HAD CONTROL OVER WHO COULD GAZE UPON US?

LIVE WEBCAM FEED, SOURCED FROM INSE.COM, ARDUINO, PYTHON, OPEN CV LIBRARIES

Global Gaze explores who gets to watch us in today’s Surveillance Capitalist framework. Drawing from Shoshana Zuboff’s seminal publication ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’, Global Gaze uses unprotected webcams from Inse.com and OpenCV libraries to detect humans in an Osaka factory feed, triggering “Hello, human” on an LCD via a microcontroller.

The project critiques the commodification of data and aims to provoke deeper discussions on consent, surveillance, and shifting power dynamics in the digital age.

By curating this footage, the work explores the allure of the "watchful gaze" by only revealing IP addresses and locations are displayed.

In an effort to maintain the privacy of webcam subjects, these displays use screen recordings and images rather than direct feeds.

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global gaze, 2024

global gaze, 2024 global gaze, 2024

What if WE HAD CONTROL OVER WHO COULD GAZE UPON US?

global gaze, 2024