In a quiet suburb of New Zealand in 2013, an unknown artist installed his artwork on a seemingly ordinary cable pole; the artwork proclaimed ‘Five Eyes Network – Surveillance Outpost’. Unbeknownst to the public, the post marked the landing point of the Southern Cross Cable, the only undersea cable connecting New Zealand to the outside world, carrying all of the country’s internet traffic. How does such a small nation like New Zealand figure in the global debate over mass surveillance? Controversy following Snowden’s NSA exposes enveloped New Zealand, fuelled by the revelations that the New Zealand government, as part of the Five Eyes intelligence community, had been collecting data on the population by tapping the Southern Cross Cable. ‘If you live in New Zealand,’ Snowden wrote, ‘you are being watched.’ This article examines the relationship between power and visibility; specifically how creative citizen engagement can serve to reveal structures of power surrounding global politics and surveillance. Visibility is a central concept, extending beyond issues of local visibility at the micro level, into the networked, global environment through online media. The significance of the cable landing point and its intersection with the public space is analysed in relation to the invisibility of elite powers, and the potential for creative participation to act as resistance to dominant narratives over surveillance and privacy. This artistic intervention points to an evolving citizen counter-narrative of the surveillance state, making visible the connected, global system where the influential power of the Five Eyes alliance is wielded.

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可见性，力量和公民干预五只眼和新西兰的南方十字电缆

2013年，在新西兰一个安静的郊区，一位不知名的艺术家将他的作品安装在看似普通的电线杆上。艺术品被称为“五眼网络–监视哨所”。公众不知道，该邮筒标志着南十字电缆的着陆点，这是连接新西兰与外界的唯一海底电缆，承载着该国的所有互联网流量。像新西兰这样的小国如何参与有关大规模监视的全球辩论？斯诺登（Snowden）的国家安全局（NSA）揭露了笼罩在新西兰的争议，这是因为新西兰政府作为“五眼”情报界的一部分，一直在通过挖掘南十字星电缆收集有关人口的数据。斯诺登写道：“如果你住在新西兰，就会受到监视。'本文探讨了权力和可见性之间的关系；尤其是创造性的公民参与可以如何揭示围绕全球政治和监视的权力结构。可见性是一个中心概念，其范围从微观层面上的本地可见性问题扩展到通过在线媒体在网络化的全球环境中进行。分析了电缆着陆点及其与公共空间的交汇点的重要性，并与精英力量的隐身性以及创造性参与的可能性进行了抗争，以抵制有关监视和隐私的主流叙述。这种艺术上的干预指向了不断变化的公民对监视状态的叙述，使连接的全球系统可见，其中运用了五眼联盟的影响力。