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BIRD’S EYE VIEW by DOSJOTAS

25, October. 2019

Few weeks back we had the pleasure to host the Spanish artist Dosjotas and support one of his interventions in Amsterdam.

With this intervention entitle “Bird’s eye view”, Dosjotas illustrates us with a metaphorical jail, a reality and stinging fact:

“We live under surveillance. How Orwell predicted in his book "1984" , we live in a technological dictatorship, guarded 24 hours a day, they observe us, our conversations, the places where we go, our tastes, they can know everything about us with little effort and without our permission.

For years we live with CCTV cameras in all cities, only in China it is estimated that there are more than 200 million cameras, with facial recognition algorithms, put by governments, on streets, banks, public buildings, apartment blocks, shopping malls, cameras everywhere, connected to satellites, mobile phones and social networks or the new portable cameras integrated in glasses used by the police, capable of identifying people in front of them. They monitor everything, in schools, the attitude of the students, their level of attention; they control the workers in their posts, analyze people who walk on the street or wait for the subway.

The technological “Big Brother” who sees everything, a mass surveillance system that listens and collects data, turning the world into a 24-hour monitored scenario, "for our safety".”

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Artist: Dosjotas

Lacation: Amsterdam

Supported by: Keep it Fresh projects

DOSJOTAS 

Parque Pradolongo, Usera, Madrid.