Internet Art: Chapter 4

Jonah Bruker-Cohen's "PoliceState" was very intriguing to me. The remote controlled cars were linked to a police scanner that once it detected certain terrorist related signals it would control the cars movement. The idea was to make the "police become puppets of their own surveillance." It highlights the bigger question of who has power over information and who should. I find this experiment/art instillation to be very relevant and creative in it's attempts to  express the artist's feelings about the idea of "Big Brother."

Yucef Merhi was the most inspirational artist in this chapter. He hacked the Venezuelan presidents email for years then created a wallpaper-like instillation using the messages. He did this to show that Venezuela is weak in its cyber defense by showing that even an artist can hack into the government databases. I thought that this was a bold move and it sent a strong message to the Venezuelan government.