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Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance

Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance

Nihal Kocabay-Sener
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799846550|ISBN10: 1799846555|EISBN13: 9781799846567
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch022
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Kocabay-Sener, Nihal. "Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance." Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power, edited by M. Nur Erdem, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 440-459. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch022

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Kocabay-Sener, N. (2021). Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance. In M. Erdem, N. Kocabay-Sener, & T. Demir (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power (pp. 440-459). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch022

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Kocabay-Sener, Nihal. "Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance." In Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power, edited by M. Nur Erdem, Nihal Kocabay-Sener, and Tuğba Demir, 440-459. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch022

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Abstract

Surveillance has become an element of everyday life. Modern society is used to surveillance. It has become inconspicuous. But art makes surveillance apparent. In this chapter, the notion of surveillance art was debated, and surveillance art was evaluated as activist art. In surveillance art, there are artworks created by singular artists or art groups. In this chapter, two groups were analyzed: Surveillance Camera Players and Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers. The two art groups focused on CCTV. Surveillance Camera Players tried to take attention by playing in front of the CCTV in the public sphere. Surveillance Camera Players created awareness for surveillance cameras that normalized in everyday life. Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers also invited to make a film via CCTV footage. The manifesto noticed to determine with the act. Consequently, surveillance art creates social awareness, and it is a way to resist surveillance.

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