Eyes on the Street screening
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Eyes on the Street screening


May 15, 2011


Join Dr. Andrew Clement for a reprisal of his Jane’s Walk that sets its sights on CCTV surveillance in downtown Toronto.

Wherever we walk on the streets of our city, we are followed by video eyes – Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras owned by private corporations as well as the Toronto Police. On this Jane's Walk, we will look back.

This walk surveys the various video surveillance cameras (mainly operated by police, retailers and private sector security agencies) and accompanying signage (and lack thereof). We’ll discuss the relation between the ideas of urban safety/livability/crime reduction associated with these ‘video eyes’ and the human eyes that Jane Jacobs refers to in her famous phrase of ‘eyes on the street’.

(Video)Eyes on the Street is part of Cyber-surveillance in Everyday Life: An International Workshop, which is convened by The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting, a multi-university research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

This walk is based on on-going research at the University of Toronto.

Time: 11 am - 1 pm
Venue: Nathan Phillips Square, main entrance, under the big surveillance camera under the Canadian flag
Location: 100 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON
Website: http://cybersurveillanceworkshop.wordpress.com/
For information contact: kate Milberry
Phone: kate.milberry@utoronto.ca
Categories: Communications Industry & Technology

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