Tiffany Holmes : Mazed or Your Face is Safe with Me, 2000-01
Featured in 'Devices of Wonder', curated by Barbara Stafford and Fran Terpak, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art.
Four museum security spy cameras were hidden near interactive spaces within the exhibition:
"The piece I produced for the Getty was called 'Mazed' and was one of the first works where I engaged a CCTV network, a closed-circuit television circuit. I actually worked with the Getty Museum guards to take four of the existing surveillance cameras in the galleries and move them into the exhibition itself so that the images I got in my work were focused on audience members—men, women, and children looking at artwork. I was interested in the gaze—imaging people looking at artwork. All of these images were collected surreptitiously but not stored on the hard drive. I was abiding by all kinds of privacy legislation."
Courtesy of Tiffany Holmes. Featured in New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts.
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