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Bearing Witness Artist Reception
Bearing Witness Artist Reception
Bearing Witness: Surveillance in the Drone Age is a comprehensive look at the wide reach and capabilities of technologies that trap us under a complex umbrella of surveillance technologies consisting of drones, phones and ubiquitous cameras and tether us together in unprecedented ways thanks to social media and the Internet at large. This exhibit is an opportunity to engage in conversation about the potential benefits of surveillance technology as well as the threats posed to fundamental rights of personal freedom and privacy.
The idea that as individuals we watch and, in turn, are watched on a local to a global scale within groups we self-select and by 'eyes' we will never see is the greatest source of angst within our current milieu of evolution toward a globally wired community. The prevalence of digital surveillance combined with 'analog' surveillance makes personal privacy a diminishing and prized commodity. The by-products of digital surveillance (pictures and video) immortalize both personal and public events and this documentation is readily accessible thanks to cheap memory and social pressure to network and share digitally. Easy access to information capturing devices and storage allows for unprecedented documentation of all types of data, innocuous to important, in massive quantity, which not only leaves behind the greatest footprint of a single generation's existence, ever, but poses real threats to our identities, rights to privacy, and unique ways of experiencing life.
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LocationFleet Room, Fort Mason Center (View)
2 Marina Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94123
United States
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