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“Interception” 2007
A surveillance camera being used to monitor public space was hijacked
and reinstalled in a subway station.
The camera was used intentionally to broaden consciousness concerning
the problem of increasing lack of privacy.
People entering and exiting the station were tracked by the camera,
and their “capture” was projected on a station wall.
The action was illegal.
Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2110 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, websites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends. We welcome submissions to the ArtBase; they are reviewed by our curatorial staff on a monthly basis.
Our system of classification consists of terms that artists assign to their work. Artists choose from Rhizome’s vocabulary of new media terms as well as adding their own terms. When new terms reach a certain level of popularity they become part of Rhizome’s vocabulary.
Rhizome also supports Creative Commons licenses, which allow creators to shift the terms of copyright from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved,” therefore enabling authors to mark their creative works with the cultural freedoms they abide by. Rhizome’s hope is that through the use of these licenses, artists will have greater access to each others’ work in furtherance of their goals.