Post-Surveillance Art

By Suzanne Treister

What could the future of surveillance culture look like?

Suzanne Treister’s Post-Surveillance Art is a comment on the pervasive and deeply entrenched use of data collection technologies in contemporary society.

The work looks to describe a world where we are constantly uploading our lives and complicit with government and corporate data collection, sharing everything, algorithms flowing through our bodies and our devices up to satellites in outer space and back, collecting data to be used wherever, whenever and by whoever.
Treister questions our relationship to data collection and “control society”, asking if we accept this state of surveillance.

About the contributor(s)

Suzanne Treister

Suzanne Treister is based in London. In 1988 she made work about video games, in 1992 virtual reality,1993 software and 1995 a web and cd-rom based project about a time travelling avatar. Her ongoing focus is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and potential futures of humanity.

Image shown: POST-SURVEILLANCE ART/NSA SEX BOMB – Suzanne Treister (2014). Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W., New York