CTS surveillance

In this CTS lesson we discussed the idea of visability vs visuality within the term of surveillance. In other words; What can be seen vs how we see it. You think of this statement in both ways being visual representations, An example of this could be the perception of muslims in western media: What can be seen could be the rate of Muslims in the UK from 2008 compared to 2018 versus how it is present to us and how we perceive it; Depending on beliefs someone may think its bad, good or neutral.

One quote that was mentioned was “Visability is a trap”. This could be perceived in many ways. Some points I noted where: Youre always vulnerable, You can face more backlash the more viable you are, you mightn’t want to be seen. Youre just an object of vision- (Panopticism) for society.

I started to think about the sense of self in public vs in private- similar to visibility vs visuality and how we portray ourself. As a lot of my work features social media and aspects of social performance im really intrigued by this debate and hope to not only focus on this in my essay on the usual narratives of the social presence of women compared to men- but race, class and gender expression in terms of possibly society vs online vs in private. I also want to use this idea in my Locating practice work. Ive been meaning to focus on the object of what is femininity in terms of the mcbling aesthetic but contrasting this with social class- exploring how your class plays a part In your social and self portrayal.

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