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An artist skewers the surveillance state
Artist Dries Depoorter is here to remind you that you are always being watched. In his new project, The Follower, he compares surveillance footage at tourist spots to Instagram photos. An influencer's 'gram outside Wrigley Field may look effortless, but the CCTV footage shows her annoyingly rerouting tourists and repeatedly adjusting her pose. If the peeping feels creepy, that’s the point: the footage is all open source, and at least one of Depoorter’s subjects indeed feels violated. “I would like you to delete my photo... immediately,” the subject wrote to Input, which covered the story behind the art. “It’s a crime to use the image of a person without permission.” Unfortunately for the surveilled, that usually isn’t the case. —Margaux
