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Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon

Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon

Update: 2025-11-03
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Massive Attack dares to say something in a performance. What a beautiful thing. Surveillance via Flock cameras, Ring, AI, etc. is kinda spooky. Blob tracking, Andy Warhol, and Noah Dillon all have their hand in aestheticizing our spooky world. 


Chapters:


0:00 - Massive Attack, the Triphop legends behind Teardrop and Mezzanine

0:18 - Facial recognition performance

0:55 - The death of privacy 

2:22 - Hypereal consequences

3:19 - Art serves as a very important mirror

4:11 - The cameras you can't escape

5:03 - The rules no longer exist 

6:02 - Home invasion

6:11 - Recession art 

6:57 - A lot of art is not challenging us 

8:00 - Lady Gaga's Swine during Artpop

9:07 - Surveillance art and digital critique 

10:30 - Why you should care about your data and resisting the pantopticon




Referenced Links: 


- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrfisZP-Us

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UW4CFz71s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ&t=281s 

- https://deflock.me/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyjSl2aqUq0

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPRL2bFNKrk

- https://ifa.nyu.edu/avitalmeshi/catalog.html 

- https://artbreath.org/coffee-talk/art-the-surveillance 

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_art 

- https://pitchfork.com/news/39905-watch-new-interactive-arcade-fire-video-for-we-used-to-wait/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fFj4-CKY8

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo

- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1l6qq94/why_should_i_care_that_my_online_activity_is/


- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReIwYj7BACM


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Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon

Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon

Kate Brunotts