Don't Surveil My Life

Don't Surveil My Life

Don't Surveil My Life

Living in the 21st century, each of us is being surveilled all the time. The government is surveilling us through ubiquitous cameras, and social media is surveilling us online. Is the surveillance system that is supposed to be for security reasons still safe for our citizens? Do we still have absolute privacy? This project is discussing about how we respond to the surveillance system and how we respond to the monitors behind the cameras. Under such surveillance, what we see and hear is controlled. We are brainwashed before we know it. And it is hard to distinguish truth and false. The public is gradually becoming an industrial product with unified values, thoughts and behaviors. With the development of face recognition technology, any individual and unit with authority can monitor each of us at any time and track everyone’s itinerary and personal info in a very short time. As long as we are exposed to the sun, we have no privacy at all-unless, like agents, we can completely erase our identity and do not use any electronic devices. We need identical privacy as a person, we need space to think and behave independently, we need to see the real history and reality. I tried to use a straight-foward way to make the print like weapons and statements to fight against the surveillance system - We Need Privacy & We Need Authority. People are jogging and walking all the time on the street. But there are someone is surveilling us without our permission. We can't let them succeed, and we have to do something to fight against. I add sport style to the collection. These transformable structures can be the weapons to make voices themselves. “Don’t surveil my life!”

2 looks of fashion garments constructed this project. The first look included a jacket, a vest and a pair of shorts (including other accessaries such as head band and arm bags). The second look included a tight body suit and a skirt (including other accessaries such as arm bags and socks). Printed fabrics such as Lycra were used in the whole collection. And also accompanied with black and white satin fabric and ribbings.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fsou1deg0l7fen3/Haoyang%20Jiao%20-%20Don%27t%20Surveil%20My%20Life.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8bb1a3z8ylt00s/Don%27t%20Surveil%20My%20Life%20-%20Haoyang%20Jiao.mp4?dl=0

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In a democratic social system, citizens' voices need to be heard and citizens' privacy needs to be respected. Living in the 21st century, each of us is being surveilled all the time. The government is surveilling us through ubiquitous cameras, and social media is surveilling us online. Is the surveillance system that is supposed to be for security reasons still safe for our citizens? Do we still have absolute privacy? This project is discussing about how we respond to the surveillance system and how we respond to the monitors behind the cameras. Under such surveillance, what we see and hear is controlled. We are brainwashed before we know it. And it is hard to distinguish truth and false. The public is gradually becoming an industrial product with unified values, thoughts and behaviors. With the development of face recognition technology, any individual and unit with authority can monitor each of us at any time and track everyone’s itinerary and personal info in a very short time. As long as we are exposed to the sun, we have no privacy at all-unless, like agents, we can completely erase our identity and do not use any electronic devices. We need identical privacy as a person, we need space to think and behave independently, we need to see the real history and reality.