idle gaze
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Dancing beyond the digital panopticon (opens the original)
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Across clubs, festivals and underground parties, there’s an increasingly ever-present entity watching over us. From every corner, it’s observing, documenting, capturing. It takes the form of a thousand iPhones, a bioluminescent swarm of screens bobbing up and down above the sweaty crowds. It manifests in the entourage of camera crews that lurk behind every DJ, capturing every drop, from every angle. It materialises in the group photos in front of the club’s bathroom mirror, and with every blurry
idle gaze 079: embrace the dark (opens the original)
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idle gaze 078: surveillance chic (opens the original)
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