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Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen
Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-05 , DOI: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.13950
Joachim Friis

In this paper, I analyze Hito Steyerl’s artwork How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) from the perspective of surveillance. Looking back at one of the most influential artworks of the last decade, I understand How Not to be Seen as a discursive practice using images that poses an ambivalent surveillance critique through media- and wordplay. I first outline the historical references of Steyerl’s critique of technology, including Heidegger’s (1938) “image as world picture,” and position her in relation to other relevant surveillance-resistant practices. Drawing on analytical theory by Rancière (2006), I argue that the video is an example of a documentary fiction that organizes heterogenous visual, semiotic, and sensory material horizontally. From here, I move on to analyze the artwork focusing on how in both its content and form it engages humorously in discussions of (in)visibility, targeting, resolution, and data extraction. Using discourses on Steyerl’s work from herself and others, I show how the .MOV file, in playing with representational media, subverts categories used for surveillant targeting and data extraction. Hence, I argue that Steyerl ultimately advocates for resistance through ambivalence as a playful counter-visuality in the face of ubiquitous surveillance. In an era of intelligent imagery, this implicates using the image as an object that is part of the medium and not as subject representation.

中文翻译:

In/Visibility 的协商:Hito Steyerl 的《如何不被看到》中的监视

在本文中,我从监控的角度分析了 Hito Steyerl 的艺术作品 How Not to be Seed: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013)。回顾过去十年中最具影响力的艺术作品之一,我理解如何不被视为一种话语实践,使用通过媒体和文字游戏提出矛盾监视批评的图像。我首先概述了 Steyerl 对技术的批判的历史参考,包括海德格尔 (1938) 的“图像作为世界图景”,并将她与其他相关的反监视实践联系起来。借鉴 Rancière (2006) 的分析理论,我认为该视频是横向组织异质视觉、符号和感官材料的纪实小说的一个例子。从这里,我继续分析艺术品,重点关注其内容和形式如何幽默地参与(不)可见性、目标、分辨率和数据提取的讨论。通过她自己和其他人对 Steyerl 作品的论述,我展示了 .MOV 文件如何在使用代表性媒体时颠覆用于监视目标和数据提取的类别。因此,我认为 Steyerl 最终主张通过矛盾心理进行抵抗,作为面对无处不在的监视的一种有趣的反视觉。在智能图像时代,这意味着使用图像作为媒介的一部分,而不是作为主体表示。MOV 文件在使用代表性媒体时颠覆了用于监视目标和数据提取的类别。因此,我认为 Steyerl 最终主张通过矛盾心理进行抵抗,作为面对无处不在的监视的一种有趣的反视觉。在智能图像时代,这意味着使用图像作为媒介的一部分,而不是作为主体表示。MOV 文件在使用代表性媒体时颠覆了用于监视目标和数据提取的类别。因此,我认为 Steyerl 最终主张通过矛盾心理进行抵抗,作为面对无处不在的监视的一种有趣的反视觉。在智能图像时代,这意味着使用图像作为媒介的一部分,而不是作为主体表示。
更新日期:2021-03-05
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