I came upon this article recently. A “Tango Protest” is planned to make a statement about survellience in Tampa, Florida. It sounds like some high-tech tango.
Called Tango Panopticon 2.0, it’s the latest in a series of what artist Robert Lawrence calls “Tango Interventions.”
Lawrence, a University of South Florida associate professor, is mixing his love of the tango with his disquiet over government surveillance.
The dancers in each city will go through their paces in front of private and public surveillance cameras. In Tampa, they will be in Ybor City, which has several cameras along Seventh Avenue.
“We’re trying to reclaim the public space,” Lawrence said. “The idea is to say, ‘We know you’re watching us, now watch us do this.’”
Lawrence is working with Adriana Iamnitchi, an assistant professor in computer science and engineering. She and USF graduate student Michael Stillo created a web-based system to display the dancers in each city in real time.
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