Month: May 2023

The resource I was reacting to in this brief is an extracted text from “Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America” by Randolph Lewis – The author speaks to people who share their experience with surveillance, and the social and emotional implications of living in such a society. For my experiments, I extracted 4 quotes of people talking about their experiences.

Extracted Text from the book

I’m always aware that I’m being watched, even when I’m just walking down the street. It’s like there are eyes on me all the time, and it makes me feel like I don’t have any privacy.” (p. 53)

“These cameras are supposed to make us feel safe, but they just make me feel more anxious. I don’t know who’s watching me, or why. It’s like I’m always being watched, even in my own home.” (p. 102).

I felt like I was being watched all the time, and it was affecting my behaviour. I was paranoid and anxious, and it felt like the cameras were judging me. I felt like I couldn’t be myself.” (p.72)

“I don’t know what they’re looking for, but it feels like they’re always watching. It’s like being in a fishbowl.” (p.96)

Experiments 1 – Posters

Experimenting both in digital space and through publication to follow my iterations.

1^st experiments and iterations – digital space. Using the extracted quotes, I created a set  of digital posters.

Iteration: Moving posters

Creating gif and recreating the designs into moving, engaging posters

Experiment 2 – photographs + 12-pages long booklet

A few days before the tutorial, I started collecting photos of surveillance around me, later on I also started using the “fish eye” lens to mimic the characteristics of CCTV cameras, to give the viewer the 360 degrees feeling, later on I used the photos in a combination with the chosen quotes to create 12-pages long publication.

The Publication: