La Influencia del Panóptico de Jeremy Bentham en el Proyecto Tracking Transience de Hasan Elahi

Abstract

We are witnessing in recent years a considerable change in regard to the individual’s relation to the control and surveillance of urban space, this change is due to the situation of collective fear, well led by the security situation today days persists in cities or by the obsession to know everything, to know any privacy, who does or what happens. In today’s society driven by new technologies, we are witnessing the emergence of CCTV Cameras incessant devices and CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) and the creation of a new urban furniture with the use of these technological means. A current landscape in which the surveillance camera and control over society is a tool for architectural design using our contemporaneity. This proliferation was most evident in the cities of New York, Madrid and London after the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11 on the Twin Towers, the attacks on Atocha Station 11-M, or 7-J in London, as a fundamental mechanism in the fight against crime and terrorism. In order to get control of all the people of different countries, and more specifically to achieve some degree of security in any part of the world, different countries are creating a series of laws and regulations to maintain supervision and control over resounding over the individual. He tries to keep under close supervision and continuous monitoring to anyone, and know every fact, your personal situation, what moves do every day, what is its activity or what their preferences in tastes, etc., These laws are willing to act with the intention to know everything about everyone and therefore achieve greater safety. This situation is occurring mostly in the U.S., which have created a series of laws and regulations. In this more than obvious surveillance society through the data control individuals directly influenced by the theories of Jeremy Bentham with the Panopticon, in 2002 was born the artistic project “Tracking Transience, The Orwell Project” artist Hasan Elahi, in response to the control and surveillance as being subjected American society after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center.