I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
> Harun Farocki 2000 Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR and Antje Ehmann. These images are from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. The surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment: a concrete-paved yard where the prisoners, dressed in shorts and mostly shirtless, are allowed to spend half an hour a day. A convict attacks another, upon […]
My Father’s FBI File Project 4
> Sadie Barnette 2017 Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery. Sadie Barnette’s My Father’s FBI File, Project 4, comprises political and personal documents concerning the surveillance and life of Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, California chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, known as Section 9-A. The artist obtained over five […]
Capture
> Paolo Cirio 2020 Courtesy of the artist. Capture is composed of French police officers’ faces. Paolo Cirio collected a thousand public images of police taken during the protests in France and processed them with the Facial Recognition software. Cirio then created an online platform with a database of the resulting four thousand police officers’ […]