“The Texas Border” and “AZ: move and get shot” sont deux œuvres d’art numérique qui explorent le phénomène de la surveillance sur Internet effectué par des civils à la frontière entre le Mexique et les États-Unis à partir de plateformes mises en place par les autorités américaines. Beaucoup de ces plateformes en ligne sont apparues lors du développement des réseaux sociaux dont la structure a été adoptée comme une alternative moins chère et plus efficace pour surveiller la frontière. Ainsi, l’activité de loisir est devenue un outil pour la militarisation de la société civile. Cette présentation exposera le processus de recherche derrière les deux œuvres d’art et analysera l’évolution de certaines de ces plateformes internet depuis leur création jusqu’à nos jours.

1. MOVE AND GET SHOT
Surveillance through social networks along the US-MX border
JOANA MOLL | Media Artist

2. THE TEXAS BORDER | 2010
The Texas Border is an audiovisual installation in which the recorded broadcasts of surveillance cameras placed along the US
Mexican border in Texas are shown. These cameras are part of an internet based platform called BlueServo.
BlueServo deployed the Virtual Community Watch, a real-time surveillance program designed to empower the citizens to
proactively participate in fighting border crime.
http://www.janavirgin.com/the_texas_border/finalSWF.html

3. About BlueServo | http://www.blueservo.net/
BlueServo allow citizens to sign up as Virtual Texas Deputies and participate in border
surveillance. Virtual Texas Deputies monitor the streaming video from these cameras 24/7
and report any suspicious activities directly to the Border Sheriffs via email. All emails
regarding suspicious activity are submitted anonymously.

4. About BlueServo |
http://www.blueservo.net/
According to BlueServo:
_The Sheriff's have made 5,331 interdictions since the
platform was launched in 2008.
_Blueservo have had 165 million hits on BlueServo
web site and have had 203,000 users volunteer
almost 1 million hours of free labor for the Sheriffs.
According to the Department of Homeland Security:
_ Around 327,000 people were arrested during 2011

5. BlueServo on FB
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Servo/116369541709753

6. BlueServo on FB

7. BlueServo on FB

8. BlueServo on FB

9. Mary Ann Smith
http://www.facebook.com/maryann.smith.946517

13. 3326 | 2010
3326 is an open-ended narrative platform for the exploration of the online infospace generated by the social, political,
economical, cultural and environmental flows and events which happen in the Mexico-US border.

14. 3326 | 2010

15. Virtual Watch communities
http://www.bpaux.org/
TECHNOPATRIOTS
Founded in July 2007 by John Healy in Arizona
First to public broadcast live webcams and make
them accessible to viewers all over the world.
http://technopatriots.com
http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/

16. http://www.wirelessbordercams.com/

17. AZ: MOVE AND GET SHOT | 2012
"AZ: move and get shot" is a net based piece which shows the movement in the landscape of the U.S. / Mexico border in the
state of Arizona, through the eyes of six surveillance cameras.
http://www.janavirgin.com/AZ/index_about.html

18. Border Watch communities: RISE AND FALL
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2
The MINUTEMAN PROJECT, launched in Arizona in 2005, spawned a major movement, propelling
the rise of other nativist extremist organizations across the U.S.
The number of “nativist extremist” groups fell by almost half last year, with much of the vigilante
anti-immigration movement collapsing under the weight of bad press, organizational disarray, and
the co-optation of the movement’s concerns by state legislatures passing severe immigration laws.
1 Source: http://tinyurl.com/6wa59g4
2 Source: http://bit.ly/THm9zN

19. THANKS!
www.janavirgin.com
joanamoll@gmail.com