Watch me
Through a three-channel video installation and illustrated with a simple story, the artist presents three different perspectives of watching and being watched in the era of Big Data. She explores the boundaries of personal privacy and security by comparing the discomfort and panic of being surveilled in the first perspective with the superiority and security of surveilling in the second and third perspectives. The viewer experiences the panic that arises when one loses privacy and the security that comes with having all the information and being able to see everything.
Today, we trade our privacy for convenience. In the act of feeding big data and we are actively or passively controlled by it and by the power of mastering it. Personal privacy is valued more in some cultures and less in others. In a society where individualism is more prevalent, personal privacy is often valued more. However, the more developed a country is, the higher the social binding force. People can experience surveillance from neighbors and people around them in daily life too. At the same time, governments believe that national security depends on monitoring the personal behavior of the individual. This is a public secret. We are being watched everywhere.
With the film installation, the artist hopes to evoke in the viewer emotions which one experiences when watching and being watched through multiple angles and interprets this ordinary behavior from different angles.
