Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon @KateBrunotts
Massive Attack, Mass Surveillance, and the Panopticon  @KateBrunotts
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 49 minutes ago
Massive Attack dares to say something in a performance. What a beautiful thing. Surveillance via Flock cameras, Ring, AI, etc. is kinda spooky. Blob tracking, Andy Warhol, and Noah Dillon all have their hand in aestheticizing our spooky world.

Chapters:

0:00 - Massive Attack, the Triphop legends behind Teardrop and Mezzanine
0:18 - Facial recognition performance
0:55 - The death of privacy
2:22 - Hypereal consequences
3:19 - Art serves as a very important mirror
4:11 - The cameras you can't escape
5:03 - The rules no longer exist
6:02 - Home invasion
6:11 - Recession art
6:57 - A lot of art is not challenging us
8:00 - Lady Gaga's Swine during Artpop
9:07 - Surveillance art and digital critique
10:30 - Why you should care about your data and resisting the pantopticon



Referenced Links:

- youtube.com/watch?v=zDrfisZP-Us
- youtube.com/watch?v=X6UW4CFz71s
- youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ&t=281s
- deflock.me
- youtube.com/watch?v=gyjSl2aqUq0
- youtube.com/watch?v=XPRL2bFNKrk
- https://ifa.nyu.edu/avitalmeshi/catalog.html
- artbreath.org/coffee-talk/art-the-surveillance
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_art
- pitchfork.com/news/39905-watch-new-interactive-arcade-fire-video-for-we-used-to-wait
- youtube.com/watch?v=_8fFj4-CKY8
- bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo
- reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1l6qq94/why_should_i_care_that_my_online_activity_is

- youtube.com/watch?v=ReIwYj7BACM

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