Surveillance, Visualized
Visual artist Marcus DeSieno’s exhibition “Privacy is a Myth We Tell Ourselves to Sleep” seeks to warn viewers on the stakes of surveillance technology, and the urgent need for a new kind of visual literacy.
His artwork bridges the gap between the abstract world of algorithms and tangible visual experiences. By intentionally subverting and repurposing surveillance tools, he turns invisible systems into visible critiques of power.
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“My work uses image-making in a performative way to interact with these technological tools of control to make the viewer aware of the convoluted architecture and infrastructure of machine vision, and the authority embedded within”, writes DeSieno.
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The exhibition “Privacy is a Myth We Tell Ourselves to Sleep” is on view at the Griffin Museum in Winchester, Ma, USA, until October 27
