Comments on: “We Live in Public”: Life in the Participatory Panopticon

By: Reality

Reality — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:04:50 +0000

F A S C I N A T I N G stuff, raises loads of questions… Are we already in zoo’s? If so, what’s with the incessant need for watching others? Why the violence? Public bankruptcy…. is the world public vs private? Does knowing one’s being watched provoke violent behaviour? And, what’s next… global public viewing… is that already happening?
Now to checkout Anton Newcombe… thanks guys.. who needs TV????

By: links for 2009-03-26 « Francis Anderson

links for 2009-03-26 « Francis Anderson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:01:21 +0000

[...] “We Live in Public”: Life in the Participatory Panopticon “We Live in Public”. It’s an apt tagline for our times, and the title of Ondi Timoner’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary which premieres in New York on April 5th. The film captures the heyday of internet pioneer Josh Harris, who amongst other things founded the world’s first web TV network, Pseudo.com. “We Live in Public” documents a series of strange performance art experiments that explored, in extreme ways, what it meant to live in full scrutiny of the whole world, all the time. For more, watch the film’s trailer below. (tags: panopticon) [...]

By: Scott Lachut

Scott Lachut — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:26 +0000

Great find Dan. If Josh Harris is even half as compelling as Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, he will make for an engaging subject to capture on film. Dig! was a fantastic documentary and this looks like it should be as well.