EN Kontrol Station, It’s for your own !

September 10th 2007

Everything involves ergonomics and functionality. No idle space, no hiding place, no secrets, so that everyone can occupy his/her most productive position and never spill out of it. It’s not that surveillance is permanent, but the possibility is always at hand.
It’s enough to let suspicion take root and fear will take care of the rest. Have you noticed how it used to be the small white camera mounted in the street, the airport, metro stations and public spaces… and now? Big black bulbs surrounding a masked entity. You never know exactly who’s being spied on, whose hands the thing is zooming in on. Bulbs that are attached to the wall, planted atop a thin post or hidden in the corner of a room… concealed like a moist eyeball. Deciding on the right moment to snatch their prey and have it admit to some crime far from the civic corridors.