WEEK 14 --
SURVEILLANCE: PRIVACY AND THE EVERYDAY
FROM STASI TO THE TOTAL INFORMATION ACT
READ:
Welcome to the Database Lounge by JENNIFER 8. LEE, The New York Times, March
21, 2002
Databases as Discourse; or,
Electronic Interpellations by Mark Poster
in "Computers, Surveillance, & Privacy" by David Lyon &
Elia Zureik
The Total Information
Act
Stasi
archives of smells
Stasi
Files
bbc
on stasi
// Art projects of the week:
Open Gov
http://opengov.media.mit.edu/
Mission:
"To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use
repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations
related to the government of the United States of America.
To allow citizens to submit intelligence about government-related issues,
while maintaining their anonymity. To allow members of the government a chance
to participate in the process."
Exactitudes
http://www.exactitudes.com/
Exactitudes is a photography project that systematically documents groups
of identities, in which the heterogeneous, multicultural street scene has
been a major source of inspiration: the people portrayed have literally
been Ípicked up from the street.
Human Identity Database Emulation
The web-based art project
H.I.D.E. (Human Identity Database Emulation) addresses the current issue
surrounding the collection and storage of individual biometric characteristics.
Identity Swap Database http://www.teleportacia.org/swap/
Bunting has also worked together with Olia Lialina in the work Identity
Swap Database, a database aimed at exchanging identities. After filling
out a form with their basic personal details, the user can acquire a new
identity "temporary or permanent" and can even donate theirs for
others to use. In English, Russian, Spanish and German.nglish.
Police
State
WEDNESDAY:
FUNCTIONS
- why use functions?
- basic function syntax
- passing data to a function
- returning data from a function
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