The Most
Wanted was shown at El Aguila, Madrid,
5th to 14th May 2008 as part of the Rencontres
festival.
(Also at Rencontres Paris
2007).
( Cams checked and updated Oct 2010)
Scroll down to launch work.
The Most Wanted selects
continuous live JPG images from security cameras found on the Internet.
Sequential updating
every two seconds creates motion images.
The image source is
changed every fifteen seconds, on a random
basis.
The images are
superimposed with texts. These comprise the names
of the
FBI’s most wanted terrorists.
The work is intended to
test the climate of anxiety around the
issue of
threat.
It combines surveillance network cameras with data from
global
intelligence sources.
Its title nods in the
direction of Andy Warhol’s 'Thirteen Most
Wanted
Men' (1964).
- Broadband Internet connection is required.
- The Most Wanted uses ‘frames’ to format its WebPages.
- Mozilla browser required.
- (Note: work will not function with
Internet
Explorer. Other browsers: untested).
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