Espacios de vigilancia total en el Arte Contemporáneo. El grupo MediaShed

Résumé

With the justification of making the city a truly safe space for citizenship, security measures in urban space have been increasing in recent years, a fact that has been developing for some years but has never been the case. Places with so many security systems. So with the strengthening of certain security measures is happening just the opposite effect, we are witnessing the privatization of public space, a space under rules, laws and more control in society. Public spaces that remained as open spaces, spaces for the individual who exercised their freedom freely, are becoming closed spaces increasingly subject to extreme control and vigilance. In the field of artistic creation, a series of groups have emerged in recent years that highlight the current systems of control and surveillance, criticizing current surveillance systems that make the viewer feel more and more intimidated by They, this is the case of the group MediaShed that propose a series of strategies like reaction to the cameras of video-‐surveillance and devices of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). Group established in England, MediaShed use the video surveillance systems that control the public space installed in the streets, squares, shopping centers and that are there continuously watching to create artistic projects as a form of social and critical resistance to all these technological equipment that control day A day to be human, is a space open to all non-‐ profit public, reusing equipment systems and digital technology, making art at no cost using the public domain, in this case the use of video surveillance cameras.