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Stealing camera feeds, yikes!

I’ve come back to this post after thinking about this “work in progress” all day. Here is a link to Delk’s site, by the way: http://www.johndelk.com. It seems that a lot of new media work gets a little overly involved in the how and not the why. It’s clever and impressive technically that Delk can tap into people’s nanny cams, but why would he want to do it? I’m sure the piece will be about the loss of privacy in a our lives, but invading peoples privacy in this way may not be the best way to explore this idea. I’ve seen many works on this topics that limit the artist’s and the viewer’s “snooping” to public spaces. Is Delk going to far by “invading” people’s homes? Is that ok for an artist to do?

I have more questions than answers. i hope to see the finished piece one day.