The Virtual Watchers (Surveilling the border)

Brief description

American volunteers monitoring US-Mexico border through an online platform that displayed live screenings of CCTV cameras. The volunteers could report to authorities anonymously if they noticed any suspicious activity on the border.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
The Virtual Watchers Art, Online art Joanna Moll
Who does what?
Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.
Notes
I put commenting to cover the discussions, jokes, questioning of authorities efficiency etc. Because it happened on Facebook and people were "commenting" on each others posts.
I put in the Aesthetic characteristics: Archive referring to mode of presentation as documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
So this would be an archive of the RedServant’s. Anonymized I use to describe how images of individuals are made non-identifiable.

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