Eyes On Guard

With works by IBM – Military Products Division, Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, Julika Rudelius, Di HU, B'Tselem Camera Project, Derek Howard, George Barber.

This programme highlights a variety of surveillance forms: the first computer-controlled, flying surveillance systems; East German agents trying to camouflage their equipment behind living room curtains; bored security personnel; artists spying on their neighbours; activists using the camera as a witness to governmental arbitrariness; and on to the most fearsome camera of all, the armed drone.

On Guard! The Story of SAGE by IBM – Military Products Division, us 1956, 13 min
Einrichten einer Beobachtungskamera von Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, de 1975, 3 min
Train by Julika Rudelius, nl 2001, 7 min
Subway Security by Di HU, cn 2014, 2 min
Settler attempts to take down Palestinian Flag von B'Tselem Camera Project, il/pl 2014, 4 min
Doctor Korbes by Derek Howard, de/ca 2011, 30 min
The Freestone Drone by George Barber, uk 2013, 13 min

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