Crowdseen (1992) SP BetaCam, PAL, 6:06mins.

Video: Brad Miller, Sound: Tom Ellard (Severed Heads)

A cut-up “scratch” style video about the surveillance of the crowd and the power relations engendered by this surveillance. Composited from found/sampled footage: scenes of large crowds, riots, police action and violence overseen by the surveillance camera and stored for further use on the computer. A regular thematic icon is a large eyeball like camera scanning the scene. [SJ]

Shown at/through:

1993:

SYSTEM-X, Online Telematic projects; A Virtual Gallery.
Exposed, Screening at AFI Cinema Sydney.
Screening at Berlin Videofest. Berlin, Germany.
The Great Science Show, video component, Melbourne.
Adelaide Festival Artist Week Video component curated by Virgina Barrett.

1999:

Fusion, A network event between Wiemar Uni & CoFA, curated by ANAT and Jill Scott.

2000:

Mass Observation Movement, Experimenta, Melbourne.