Canadian-born media artist Michelle Teran‘s Experiments in Open Air Surveillance Cinema (2008) captures the private video images resultant from the consumer use of wireless surveillance technology, and displays them publicly, “creating an alternate journey into the non-places of the city created through surveillance use.” Teran writes:

By accessing these images one is also offered a view into how the public depicts and represents itself through surveillance while also bringing questions of permission of access and ownership of these transmissions.

Using a powerful video beamer and video scanner, live surveillance was intercepted from wireless CCTV cameras in Oslo, Norway, then rebroadcasted upon the city walls, once a day, for a period of seven days, as part of Urban Interface Oslo. Viewers were offered a chance to publicly deconstruct incidental, surplus image production and its relationship to a city’s identity, and question various aspects about surveillance.

The video below details one installation site within the project, at a car wash.

Chairs and popcorn were served, and the cinema experience was further mimicked in the films’ near-feature length.

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