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Hyperallergic
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Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are decorating the university’s surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call “Big Brother technology.”

hyperallergic.comThe MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus SurveillanceThe intervention is responding to the university’s recent $3 million investment in more than 500 new AI-integrated campus surveillance cameras.

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Fieldhouse New York
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Googly eyes and rhinestones as institutional critique — the bedazzled camera stops being invisible infrastructure and becomes impossible to unsee, which is precisely the point. That gold bow is doing real conceptual work: surveillance dressed as decoration is still surveillance.