Surveillance Art

 Although controversial at times, surveillance art is a topic that intrigues me very much. I say this because of my fascination with what goes on in someone else's mind. If we were to take everyone's inner dialogues and memories and project them to the world, how will the world be? The closest we can get to that would be, of course, through surveillance. This leads me into the topic of surveillance as applied to the everyday world. The movie was very informative. It was about something I already knew existed, but I never thought that surveillance nowadays has expanded to such a broad range of cases. Being a member of this society, I definitely see this as an intrusion of privacy, but at the same time, I feel like the constant monitoring of people's actions is something that can never be avoided. With the advancement of technology, there will be a higher risk of failure, and with the higher risk of failure, the higher end of the world will have to analyze the actions of those that work and live under them, due to lack of trust. Surveillance, in philosophy, is not the best way to resolve this mistrust between the higher and lower levels, but because of the state that we are in, getting rid of it would be a futile attempt.