30 Days Being A Civilian Body Camera

I will wear a body camera for the next 30 days, documenting all the time I spend in the public realm. The camera will be dismounted and powered off while in my home, with my family, in other private residences, and in the place where I work. Every night I will post the video unedited to this blog as a document of my experiences as a civilian, as a woman, a mother, a brown body wearing a body camera. I will include a link to texts that I am reading while being recorded. These texts will provide a social and political context for the public space that is being documented, and will have a relation to self surveillance, protest, new technologies, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and any other subject relating to what it means to be a body on the streets in this present moment.

Day 21

August 7, 2016

No public space = Private space

Simple Definition of privacy
: the state of being alone : the state of being away from other people
: the state of being away from public attention

Full Definition of privacy
plural privacies
1
a : the quality or state of being apart from company or observation : seclusion
b : freedom from unauthorized intrusion <one's data-preserve-html-node="true" right to privacy>

2
archaic : a place of seclusion

3
a : secrecy
b : a private matter : secret
**From the Merriam Webster Dictionary

I am dreaming of the archaic form of privacy