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Welcome to the Performance in a Mediatised Culture blog, 2009. This is a space for you to share images, ideas and experiences throughout the course.

IMPORTANT!! CLASS EXCURSION WEEK 6:
Contrary to what your course outline says, please meet at 9.30am in the usual classroom for the week 6 excursion. We will go from there.

ALSO: AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Selected works that we have watched are now with Iain Murray at the Level 3 Webster desk and are available for you to borrow and watch on campus. You can use these for your essay preparation:

Level 3 desk:
- ‘Cesena’ and ‘Brussels’ in Tragedia Endogonidia by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
- Chunky Move Mortal Engine or Glow
- Blast Theory Uncle Roy All Around You and Can You See Me Now?
- The Wooster Group Route 1 & 9 (The Last Act)
- Granular Synthesis Modell 5

unsw LIBRARY:
- Einstein on the beach[videorecording] :the changing image of opera /
- The Builders Association [videorecording] : Show excerpts and trailers, 1994-2007

Bill Viola documentaries (COFA):
- I do not know what it is that I am like[videorecording] /
- The passing[videorecording]
- Selected works[videorecording] /

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

This week's discussion is focused on surveillance and it got me thinking of the current trend of citizen journalism in Singapore, where individuals of the community reports on incidents that occurred in their presence. View: Singapore Seen and Youtube: Usual Singapore MRT Scene

The development of this new form of surveillance, has been rather interesting and somewhat disturbing, in a somewhat conservative Asian country like Singapore has, at least for my friends and I, made us feel the need to mind our p's and q's, creating in us the fear of possible public humiliation. This style of journalism was made possible as camera phones are more accessible than in the past.

Personally, this trend worries me more than state surveillance, as we could still possibly argue that the state only has power to use those videos for those specified in the relevant legislation. However, with citizen journalism, where can we draw the line and say that is getting out of control. "Privacy" is now a word with meanings that are rather limited in application.
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  1. BryoniApril 4, 2009 at 7:21 PM

    Good distinction to make between state surveillance and citizen surveillance. Around what terms does citizen surveillance differ do you think?

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  2. lalaApril 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM

    to me, the most obvious factor on which they differ is that of the way footages are taken. state surveillance tends to be on the passive side, where cameras are placed at various areas and record images, whether or not incidences are occurring. citizen surveillance, on the other hand, is more mobile and footages only come about when the 'citizen' decides to film the incident down.

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