To highlight the discrepancy in power between the state and the individual, Filo Art developed the I-R.A.S.C., an infrared device that protects against infrared surveillance cameras. The device radiates infrared light disrupting the reception of infrared surveillance cameras, at a frequency between 780nm and 1mm. The result (shown top right) is a sphere of light that obscures the face of the person under surveillance.

With I-R.A.S.C., Filo Art also interrogates the systems involved in surveillance, simultaneously demonstrating human/machine and machine/machine interactions:

This absurd accumulation of technology is symptomatic, for although the security measures are supposedly for the good of the people, the individual is considered less and less in current security concepts.

I-R.A.S.C. was presented at Berlin’s Kunsthaus Tacheles in January, 2008.

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