We don’t know what or where they will specifically document. But we know what they will undoubtedly document.
The dice—a symbol of randomness and the possibility of influencing the outcome of a game.The pips on the die faces have been replaced by surveillance cameras. Every trip out of the house becomes a new roll: it is impossible to predict which cameras will record the route, how many times a person will come into view, or what fragments of their daily life will be saved.
Exhibition
Explication
The city continuously registers what is happening through a distributed network of cameras embedded in transportation, streets, residential areas, and public spaces. A person’s life becomes a unit of information for the video surveillance infrastructure—a binary code within a vast database of unknowingly intersecting lives.The technical gaze lacks intent, yet it witnesses our lives and creates its own imprint, beyond human agency. It is impossible to predict the future trajectory of this information. Some of this data will become significant, but most of it will disappear with the next database update.
The work explores the contradiction of the global city, where the freedom of movement borders on constant visibility, and surveillance infrastructure becomes a casual witness to everyone’s life.
Instead of functional cameras, the object has integrated replicas. The work is deliberately devoid of any surveillance function. The object remains blind.
However, the lack of actual surveillance does not eliminate the feeling of being watched. The viewer cannot be certain if the cameras are operating, leaving them in a state of uncertainty familiar from the experience of the modern city. In daily life, it is impossible for a person to know which cameras are actually recording and which are mere simulations, yet they continue to modulate their behavior based on the possibility of being seen.
In this sense, the work explores the psychological and social effect of presence, rather than the technology of video surveillance.
