Work by Streetartist Banksy in Central London, 2008., Foto: Jordi Martorell
Who is Big Brother?
or The Politics of LookingAmidst the multitude of distractions offered by contemporary cities, billboard-sized video screens are perhaps the most conspicuous intersections between urban environments and electronic media.[1] The spectacular intent of such screens might recommend them as metonymic images of the media-city, but they disclose neither the nature, nor the meaning of this supposed hybrid. Urban screens, video screens, like all screens, are equivocal: as much as they display, they conceal. From this double …
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Anthony Auerbach studied Fine Arts. He is Project Director of Video as an Urban Condition, Founder of Vargas Organisation and Chief of Propaganda of the International Necronautical Society.