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 25

August 11, 2016

Day 25- This continuous and fragmented act of wearing a camera in public space for 30 days started as a social and technological experiment, and has become about finding a place of quiet.

Day 23

August 9, 2016

Day 23- I am the biker wearing a surveillance camera.

Day 22

August 9, 2016

Day 22- "When you can't trust smell, only eyes can tell." NYBG/ 125

Day 21

August 7, 2016

Day 21- No public space = Private space

Day 19

August 5, 2016

Day 19- No public space = strange livestream cams in nature

Day 16

August 2, 2016

Day 16- At night the Body Cam feels uncomfortably more authoritarian, more of a protective device against the people in my own neighborhood.