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Claudia Oliveira

Portugal

Claudia Oliveira (1988, Portugal) is a digital artist and designer. With a bachelor’s degree in Communi¬cation Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, she also studied Film and Media Production in Sheffield, UK through the Erasmus program. After working briefly as a graphic designer, she moved to Barcelona to pursue a Master’s degree in Digital Arts at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has since been developing work at the intersection between design, art and technology. Over the years she has produced audiovisual work in the form of interactive installations, net art and experimental video, working mainly with digital media and on the fringes of those different media. Her projects often make use of the limitations of technology as an expressive tool, creating work that ques¬tions the perception of reality mediated and seen through the eyes of technology.

24,25,26,27 Sep

you-are-watching.me

Exhibition

On the Shores - Cacilhas
24, 25 e 26 de Setembro: 10h – 22h
27 de Setembro: 10h – 18h

Terminal Fluvial de Cacilhas
Free

Us as a film, as characters, without our knowledge, without our apparent consent. This is how we live now, we allow access to our lives in exchange for a “social life”, “protection”, “security”. you-are-watching.me is a live film that uses footage from found open web-cam feeds. It exists in the form of a website that accesses live streaming cameras without any kind of password protection. Some of them seem to have open access by choice, others by neglect. Because it is live footage, there is no real control over what happens inside the frame. The website is programmed to periodically change between “scenes” as if it were a film. Every time the webpage is loaded results in a different cut of the film. The scenes are chosen depending on the location of the viewer, the time of day and relevant routines and schedules of the feeds. It is a dramatized narrative construction patched from real life. The fear of surveillance has been realized, we are now not only being surveilled but surveil ourselves and each other.
Nós como filme, como personagens, sem o nosso conhecimento e sem o nosso aparente consentimento. Como vivemos agora, permitimos acesso às nossas vidas em troca de uma “vida social”, de “protecção”, “segurança”. you-are-watching.me é um filme em directo que recorre a imagens de web-cams de acesso aberto. Existe sob a forma de um site que acede a streamings de câmaras em directo que não possuem qualquer protecção com password. Algumas parecem ter livre acesso por escolha, outras por negligência. As imagens são em directo logo não existe um controlo real sobre o que acontece dentro do enquadramento. O site está programado para mudar periodicamente as “cenas” como se de um filme se tratasse. Cada vez que a página é carregada, é gerado um novo corte do filme cujas cenas são selecionadas dependendo da localização do espectador, da altura do dia e de rotinas e horários relevantes dos feeds. É uma construção de uma narrativa dramatizada colada com remendos da vida real. O medo da vigilância foi concretizado, não só somos vigiados como nos vigiámos uns aos outros e a nós próprios.
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