Sanctum

The Sanctum piece at the Henry Art Museum is an interactive video instillation made by James Coupe and Juan Pampin. On the outside of The Henry there are 18 T.V. screens that are surrounded by cameras that are on a 24 hour surveillance. The clips on the screens go back and forth between being live and of previous captured clips which are repeated frequently on multiple screens. There is a speaker above the screens which is playing repeated voice recordings of people reading the words that show up on the screens. The sentences that show up on the screens are actual Facebook statuses from participants of the piece. It uses the images and status's from the participants Facebook profiles to match the demographics of the people who walk up to the cameras, which are matched by age and gender. Along with that a status of someones demographics that matches yours will come onto the screen.

You can post a lot of stuff on your Facebook. Pictures and statuses that people can see, whether it be public or private. Issues of privacy because of this are big. Almost anyone can access your account and find out information about you. Your name, where you live, and where you work. Yes, Facebook is a good place to communicate with family and friends, but not many people actually think about who could possibly be looking at their information. It's not really that safe, but nothing really is I guess.