AMCV
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Title
AMCV
Headline
Alerta Móvil de Contra-Vigilancia
Concept author(s)
Jorge Benet Sánchez Noriega
Concept author year(s) of birth
1982
Concept author(s) contribution
The idea to put a map of surveillance cameras on a mobile phone that are updated via a website where people can contribute to the database.
Concept author(s) Country
Mexico
Designer(s)
Jorge Benet Sánchez Noriega
Designer(s) year(s) of birth
1982
Designer(s) contribution
Web page design. Blog design. Stencils, stickers printed and poster design.
Other author(s)
Leonardo Aranda; Gabriel Velazquez; Jorge Benet
Other author(s) year(s) of birth
1981; 1981; 1982.
Other author(s) contribution
Leonardo Aranda: Mobile software programming; Gabriel Velazquez: User registration, MySQL database, Open Layers programming (map interface); Jorge Benet: Surveillance camera scouting, GPS tracing, Open Street Maps mapping.
Friendly Competition
Love Conflict Imagination (2010-2011)
Competition category
Mobilization
Competition field
nonacademic
Competition subfield
artist
Subfield description
I do video and interactive stuff. I do it in México and had exhibitions on Festivals on México City, Barcelona, Bogotá, Montreal.
Check out the Love Conflict Imagination 2010-2011 outlines of Memefest Friendly competition.
Description of idea
Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:
AMCV is a tool that allows anyone with a computer or a mobile phone to have knowledge about the location of surveillance cameras and aims to debate about the widespread use of surveillance and its effects on the public spaces and the privacy of the individual.
What kind of communication approach do you use?
On-line open community. Free software for mobile phones.
What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?
AMCV is a tool that goes beyond the common use of mobile technology. It gives the people the ability to understand their environment regarding surveillance systems and motivates the citizen to take action by contributing to a free and open database of surveillance cameras. This information is often managed secretly. The project makes this data of public knowledge.
What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?
I learned that collaboration is the best way to work for projects that require different and specialized knowledge when resources are limited.
Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?
The work is good in visualizing the location of the surveillance cameras. It also puts emphasis in the importance on the people to participate and contribute to obtain successful results. And it brings attention to the surveillance issues every contemporary city has.
This results are possible because all the project uses free software and there are no restrictions on the use of the program or restrictions in the registration of the users to the website.
Where and how do you intent do implement your work?
We are working on a second version of the software with advanced options and a better user experience. When this version is released the web site will be featured on several forums and festivals.
Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)
Curators Comments
Alain Bieber
I've always been a big fan of mappings (like http://bureaudetudes.org/). It has a great educational and visual aspect and helps to clear things up. And I'm also a big fan of projects that deal with surveillance camera (see also “panoptICONS” or "The Surveillance Camera Players") and there are even some similar projects like http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html, http://cctvtreasurehunt.wordpress.com/, http://ambienttv.net/content/?q=mappingcctv, http://guymon.de/, etc. But still: Visualizing surveillance systems in a map, offering it as a free tool for mobile phones and creating a community that can interact and participate is a great instrument for more "Aufklärung", communication around an important subject and to sensibilize a bigger audience. That's why it gets my full support - we need more of these projects!
14 years, 4 months ago