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The Work Of Art In The Age Of Surveillance: Towards A Society Of Civil Power, Grace Eunhae Cho
The Work Of Art In The Age Of Surveillance: Towards A Society Of Civil Power, Grace Eunhae Cho
Graduate School of Art Theses
State and corporate power have expanded and enforced their dominant territory and influence through the development of visual technology. Art and visual technology are inseparable. Thus, art has been utilized as an essential tool through which power glamorizes and visualizes its authority. Over the course of the modern age, power has increasingly adopted different strategies in order to conceal its appearance. In particular, the development of information and communication technology has enabled power to be not only invisible but also intangible. This thesis, "The Work of Art in The Age of Surveillance: Towards A Society of Civil Power," explores how …