The Project

TRACK-THE-TRACKERS---” is a network installation consisting of tactical media components. The work makes use of existing personal technologies in conjunction with the satellite GPS infrastructure to provide participants with an expanded audible (not a visual) experience of the proliferation of video surveillance in the urban public sphere. The mobile unit, a bag containing a laptop, GPS-receiver, earphones, and a generic mouse is taken on a walk through the city. The sound in the headphones changes whenever the participant enters the vicinity of a surveillance camera. This effect is not automatic but created by other participants who are continuously adding new locations to the existing database. The technology is fully documented with the intention of inspiring others to build similar systems and improve on the design

The internet platform http://www.t-t-trackers.net servers as an exchange point for these coordinates: the data gathered in this way is made available to the other participants by uploading it to the internet platform.
The project prompts participants to think beyond the protection of their own private sphere and to invest in the public sphere.