Thursday, July 9, 2009

Glam Cams


Jill Magid decorates police cameras and calls them "Glam Cams". It is a great example of street art, akin to yarnbombing.

Here is an Introduction to her work:

I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures.
The systems I choose to work with- such as police, secret services, CCTV, and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. I seek the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility− and, with all of this, their potential reversibility.

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