Surveillance Index has moved to a new server and been rebuilt on current software. Same design, same index, everything under the hood replaced. After a long quiet stretch, the site will now be updated regularly.

2023 Welcome to the machine and long polling cameras that connect to AI for X

Now available through Twelve Books in Japan

アメリカ人インターネット起業家、マーク・グネイム（Mark Ghuneim）の作品集。監視写真に関連する100冊の本をまとめた包括的な参考資料集。本書は、監視とそこから生まれたイメージが私たちの生活にとって切っても切り離せない一部となった時代と、アーティストたちが向かい合ってきた主題の記録である。収録されている文化評論家のカーロ・マコーミック（Carlo McCormick）のエッセイ『The Eyes Have It』は、歴史的な背景を説明し、この監視という劇場に先立って存在する美術史の中の例を詳細に分析する。本書は参考資料としてデザインされており、全ての作品が出版年、題名、撮影者、解説、サイズ、コードで索引付けされている。さらに各冊の代表的な見開きページと独自の説明に加え、全ての収録書籍が掲載されたポスター、オリジナルバッグ付き。

Each edition of the book now ships with new black and silver tote bags.

Tim Head - The Tyranny of Reason this may be the one of the first art/photography books that deals with public surveillance

surveillance photography

Archiv Peter Piller
Piller, Peter

Lingering Ghosts
Irvin, Sam

Zus
Fougeirol, Benoît

MY TV Girls
Girard, Sebastien

Restricted Images: Made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia
Waterhouse, Patrick

Palimpsest
Braquenier, Philippe

Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train: The People’s View
Terpstra, Rein Jelle

Phenotypes/Limited Forms
Linke, Armin; Hanappe, Peter

New York
Gozu, Masao

Art Peace China Daily
Joachim Schmid

Are You Searching For Me?
Joachim Schmid

X Marks the Spot
Joachim Schmid

The Diary of Tom Wilkins
Girard, Sebastien

Sixty-Eight Minutes on the Sunset Strip
Joachim Schmid

The book - From the inaugural ICP exhibition of the same title (co-curated and named by yours truly) This publication came out exceptional.

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self By Charlotte Cotton .

With Marina Chao and Pauline Vermare Contributions by Lacy Austin, David A. Banks, Ben Burbridge, Dan Bustillo, common room, Mark Ghuneim, Johanna Hedva, Romke Hoogwaerts, Elizabeth Kilroy, Joseph Maida, Marisa Olson, David Reinfurt, Daniel Rubinstein, and Lucas Wrench Interviews with Merry Alpern, Zach Blas, Natalie Bookchin, Nancy Burson, Kate Cooper, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ann Hirsch, John Houck, Trevor Paglen, Martine Syms, and Shelly Silver
Copublished by Aperture and the International Center of Photograph

Visvaldas Morkevicius - Public Secrets
Wikiland 23/6/17
RAF No Evidence - Kein Beweis
DMZ - Park Jung Woo
Shadows of the State - Lewis Bush
False Positives - Esther Hovers

The first edition of PERFORMING BOOKS at LE BAL was dedicated to SURVEILLANCE INDEX.

http://www.le-bal.fr/2017/12/surveillance-index

Saturday 20th January - 10am to 6pm: Workshop / Mishka Henner .
Photographer Mishka Henner presents a one-day workshop on image perspectives on networks. More info: http://bit.ly/2DRJFGP

Saturday, January 20th - 8 pm: Scorpion Violente / Concert . Violent Scorpion will perform in the BAL space and will deploy the synthetic tablecloths of its minimal dark wave hammered hypnotic rhythms. More info: http://bit.ly/2BXY0UP

Wednesday, January 24 - 20h: Mondkopf / Concert . The Toulouse Mondkopf mixing melodic rhythms and brutality, inspired drone, noise, hip-hop, metal and will perform live at the BAL. More info: http://bit.ly/2CnvPL5

Saturday 27th January - 3pm to 4.30pm: Workshop 'Anonymity' - In collaboration with the hackerspace Reset.

Is it still possible to 'disappear'? The hackerspace The Reset presents a workshop that will give participants tools to protect their data online. More info: http://bit.ly/2CMTk1n

Saturday, January 27th - 5pm : Meeting & Launch of Lewis Bush's book " Shadows of the state"

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Liberation Par Clémentine Mercier Au Bal à Paris, une exposition d'un monde veilleur

LE BAL LANCE PERFORMING BOOKS.

LE BAL IS LAUNCHING PERFORMING BOOKS. THIS NEW BAL BOOKS INITIATIVE WILL PRESENT A COLLECTION EVERY JANUARY SELECTED BY AN ARTIST, RESEARCHER, OR BOOK LOVER ON A SPECIFIC THEME. LE BAL WILL TURN INTO A RESEARCH LABORATORY FOCUSED ON BOOKS’ ROLE AS A POLITICAL GESTURE AND A CRITICAL REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY. THE FIRST PERFORMING BOOKS EVENT IS DEDICATED TO SURVEILLANCE INDEX.

Compiled by the American Mark Ghuneim, this collection of over 200 photography books explores “our the golden age of surveillance” and its visible and invisible inner workings. An expert observer of technological innovation, aware of the challenges of protecting his private life very early on, Ghuneim investigates all the lawful and unlawful procedures the State has put in place to watch its citizens. In the early 1990s, he listed with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) all the CCTV cameras in the streets of New York and created an interactive map which takes you through the parts of Manhattan that aren’t under surveillance. In 2009, six years before the Snowden affair, Ghuneim began collecting books by artists and photographers about “those watching and being watched” men, machines, institutions, governments, spies, hackers, voyeurs and egotists. In LE BAL, over 200 books from his collection Surveillance Index will be available to the public.

« THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SURVEILLANCE IS PART OF OUR DAILY LIVES AND HAS INSPIRED A MULTITUDE OF ARTWORKS » — MARK GHUNEIM

In the spirit of a genuine whistle blower, Ghuneim is raising the alarm, using this collection and the plethora of visual material it represents as a wake-up call raising awareness and resistance. Which personal and collective civil liberties are we sacrificing at the altar of security? How do our personal, intimate, identifying desires create the tools to control us? Which political, social, cultural and legal incidents has this provoked? What behaviour can we adopt in order to disappear from the CCTV screens and meta-databases? To discuss these questions and stimulate public debate, LE BAL has invited sociologists, activists, artists, thinkers and journalists to participate in the programme.

Mark Ghuneim will open Performing Books by discussing the starting point and activist nature of his collection and his self-published 2017 book Surveillance Index which details the inventory of his findings.

An additional 111 books have been curated, added to the database and will eventually make its way online.

10x10 AWAKE at Magnum Foundation
Protest, Liberty and Resistance Reading Room, Book & Zine Bazaar

Web affairs Show-n-tell -
Allucquere Rosanne Stone

West Garden - Lynch, Dylan

While I have fears that I may cease to be what wold you give me in exchange for your soul

Wikiland 2007-07-12 – 00:59:46
Källström, Klara; Fäldt, Thobias

I loved my wife (Killing children is good for the economy) Dieter De Lathuwer

The Mechanism - Mårten Lange

Tokyo Depression Final Cut - Michael Wolf

Revolutionary Archive - Jochem Hendricks and Magdalena Kopp

While at Photo London we regarded a special tour of Edmund Clark’s - Control Order House exhibition at
the Imperial War Museum. Edmund was recently awarded the 2017 Infinity Award for Photojournalism for his project Negative Publicity. His work is featured in our index.

Surveillance Index Edition One will be included in the AWAKE Reading Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art during the PGH Photo Fair from 29-30 April.

Awake! is a space where your voices and your eyes do not have to be compromised. By sharing all your ideas and creations together, we can establish some clarity on our communal thoughts and utilize this information to establish a true and coherent opposition to the tyrannies that are currently trying to erode our liberties, rights and freedoms that have taken generations of struggle to achieve.

Shenasnameh - Photographs by Amak Mahmoodian
Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography -
Document - By Henry Leutwyler
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition By Crofton Black and Edmund Clark
Mexican Crime Photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz
Under Surveil-Lance - Revolver Publishing
Tearoom - Willam E. Jones
Tekerrur Recurrence - Selim Sume

Each week new books are added into the archive and tagged for Edition Two. Will use this space to document what works are being considered. If you have a related relevant work, and would like it added into the collection please get in touch.

Offprint Paris 2016. If you are in town for either the photography fair or Offprint and would like a copy of Surveillance Index Edition One you can collect one exclusively at Le Bal Books bookshop of the art institution Le Bal in Paris.

Le Bal Books 6 Impasse de la Défense 75018 Paris, France

They have signed copies with an additional special edition two sided poster that acts as both a index for the book and a wall poster. All copies of Surveillance Index Edition One come with a colour poster and bookmark.

You can find a copy of Surveillance Index Edition One

New York City

Dashwood Books
Printed Matter
McNally Jackson
Spaces Corners @ ICP Bowery

London

Claire De Rouen Books

Paris
LE BAL Books

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The NYC launch of Surveillance Index Edition One took place at the Spaces Corners Book store at the International Center of Photography on the Bowery on Thursday 15 September. During the Art Book Fair in NYC.

The most gracious Spaces Corners team and the ICP hosted an event that was well attended and surveilled. Attendees who purchased a copy received a special limited edition two sided poster.