TY - JOUR
T1 - HOMECTRL
T2 - An Example of Practice-Based Artistic Research as a Methodology in Surveillance Studies
AU - Veel, Kristin
AU - Wellendorf, Kassandra
AU - Graabæk, Mia Mai Dengsø
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transforming the home as a site of control, on a spectrum ranging from the mundane everyday use of robot vacuum cleaners to domestic abuse facilitated by IoT technologies. By sharing excerpts from narrative monologues that probe the question of where control is located, and still images that experiment with representing how technologies perceive their surroundings, the essay demonstrates that practice-based methods can open up understandings of the home as a distributed spatial structure permeated by smart technologies that have new abilities to access, control, and manipulate domestic space.
AB - This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transforming the home as a site of control, on a spectrum ranging from the mundane everyday use of robot vacuum cleaners to domestic abuse facilitated by IoT technologies. By sharing excerpts from narrative monologues that probe the question of where control is located, and still images that experiment with representing how technologies perceive their surroundings, the essay demonstrates that practice-based methods can open up understandings of the home as a distributed spatial structure permeated by smart technologies that have new abilities to access, control, and manipulate domestic space.
U2 - 10.24908/ss.v20i4.15899
DO - 10.24908/ss.v20i4.15899
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 379
EP - 389
JO - Surveillance & Society
JF - Surveillance & Society
SN - 1477-7487
IS - 4
ER -