This document discusses various works that involve visual influences and surveillance including Bentham's Panopticon prison, Guillermo Gomez Peno's "Undiscovered Amerindians" artwork, the Wooster Group's "To you, the Birdie" performance, and the television show Big Brother. It analyzes how these works use surveillance, voyeurism, and the idea of always being watched to exert power and control over subjects while challenging notions of privacy versus security.

1. Visual Influences
Rhian Morris
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2. • Bentham’s Panopticon Prison
• Power
• Control
• Surveillance

3. • Guillermo Gomez Peno ‘Undiscovered Amerindians’
• Postcolonial
• Voyeurism
• Experiment in how public react to individuals in captivity

4. • ‘To you, the Birdie’ Wooster Group
• Technology and materialism
• Live recording of events and looping
• TVs and video
• Alternative reality through surveillance

5. • Big Brother TV Show
• Cult of celebrity
• Control
• 24 hour surveillance
• Game show

6. • Jade Goody, Big Brother Series 3
• Memorable and controversial character
• Caliban-figure
• Little knowledge and uncivilised

7. • Nikki Graham, Big Brother Series 8
• Naïve and young
• Basis for character of Miranda

8. • Pete and Nikki – parallel relationship of Miranda
and Ferdinand in contemporary culture
• Relationship within TV show under surveillance

9. • Big Brother Diary Room
• Reveals character
• One-to-one
• Control over characters

10. • CCTV control rooms
• Centre of all power
• Eyes everywhere
• Invasion of privacy or there for security?