Jon Rafman: A Collection of Google Street Views (2008–)

Jon Rafman has spent a considerable amount of time capturing and compiling Google Street View images that fulfill an artistic quality rather than purely informative.

Author’s commentary (ArtFagCity)
Project website (googlestreetviews.com)
Project website (9-eyes.com, (archived))

Vol 1: PDF (2008, 15 MB, updated on 2016-12-25)
Vol 2: PDF (10 MB, updated on 2016-12-25)
Vol 3: PDF (2009, 11 MB)
Sixteen Google Street Views (2009)
Within Which All Things Exist and Move (catalogue, with Gabor Szilasi, 2010, 44 pp, added on 2018-12-3)

Robert Latham (ed.): Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security (2004)

Information technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, terrorist and criminal organizations, businesses, and social movements organize themselves and pursue their increasingly globalized objectives. With the emergence of the internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries and traditional concepts – from privacy, to surveillance, vulnerability, and above all, security – must be reconsidered. In the post-9/11 era of homeland security the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevance. `bomb & bandwidth’, a project of the social science research council, assembles leading scholars in range of disciplines to explore the new nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around it, and the ethical and political implications arising from this complex and important field. (published in arrangement with the new press, usa).

Publisher Manas Publications, 2004
ISBN 8170491924, 9788170491927
Length 326 pages

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David Lyon: The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (1994)

Every day precise details of our personal lives are collected, stored, retrieved, and processed within huge computer databases belonging to big corporations and government departments. Although no one may be spying, strangers do know intimate things about us, often without our knowing what they know, why they know it, or who shares this information. This is the surveillance society. In The Electronic Eye, David Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, border-crossing, vote, and application registers in some computer, to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in our day.

The increasing impact of computers on modern societies is seen by some as very promising, but by others as menacing in the extreme. The Electronic Eye is a genuine contribution to the understanding of modern institutions in an era of globalizing electronic communication.

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1994
ISBN 0816625158, 9780816625154
Length 270 pages

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