Surveilling the Scene

Jennifer Parker-Starbuck reviews the performance exhibition We’re Watching: A Performance Exhibition on Surveillance, at Bard College. Her article contextualizes her experiences at the exhibition with the wider sociopolitical condition of living under mass surveillance and dataveillance. In her estimation, the exhibition becomes less about the politics of methodologies of surveillance than about “how surveillance in a Big Data society is pervasive to a point of its absorption.”