Surveillance is represented most of the time as a kind of anthropomorphism with a human surveying another human with the use of a device. That said, in the article “Invisible Surveillance in Visual Arts” (2012), Katherine and David Barnard-Wills demonstrate that we live in an era of data valiance defined as “the systematic use of our personal data with the intention of controlling the actions of one or several individuals.” If the authors of this article see an opposition between bodies under surveillance and that of data surveillance, Pat Badani’s artwork make-A-move reconciles these two aspects and through the work, tackles the complex issues associated with concepts of surveillance.

(Read the whole text in French by Paule Mackrous)