On Being Watched and I'm Different When You Watch Me were published by the international, interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal of surveillance studies Surveillance and Society Vol. 20 No. 1 (2022): Open Issue in the Arts Forum section.
on being watched 2 min, 2022
On Being Watched features an actress, my dear friend Giedrė Antanavičiūtė. The fragments of poems spoken in her native language, were habitually stolen by me from her YouTube channel.
"(...)to be seen is to be acknowledged, to be given a role and purpose. The character’s purposeless walk around London’s Southbank gains a new poetic meaning of seeing oneself from an alien perspective, to be looked at with care and interest but be able to control where the perspective ends.(...) A young woman looking for her own identity and autonomy."
(Potocka, Judyta. 2022. I'm Different When You Watch Me and On Being Watched. Surveillance and Society 20(1):125-126)
I'm different when you watch me 2 min, 2022
"In I’m different when you watch me, I use photographs discovered on my hard drive stored by a login face recognition app as it malfunctioned throughout my everyday computer use. I have found over 60,000 pictures of me taken by my webcam, dating from 2011 to 2017. In comforts of solitude, unaware of being watched, ultimately captured in camera was my identity formation, a shift from adolescence to early adulthood. In this liminal space situated somewhere between the physical file folder and the uncanny, resides my double."
"In I’m different when you watch me, I use photographs discovered on my hard drive stored by a login face recognition app as it malfunctioned throughout my everyday computer use. I have found over 60,000 pictures of me taken by my webcam, dating from 2011 to 2017. In comforts of solitude, unaware of being watched, ultimately captured in camera was my identity formation, a shift from adolescence to early adulthood. In this liminal space situated somewhere between the physical file folder and the uncanny, resides my double."
(Potocka, Judyta. 2022. I'm Different When You Watch Me and On Being Watched. Surveillance and Society 20(1):125)
See the publication here.