Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
BA Photography
My thesis discusses our privacy in the post-digital age where we are surrounded by surveillance
cameras that operate by advanced Artificial Intelligence technology and get command from that.
The paper begins with an introduction to the concept of "Digital identity" as a contemporary
phenomenon used by authorities for the authentication process of people in the virtual world.
The thesis clarifies how AI serves and empowers surveillance cameras and how this encounter puts
our privacy at stake. Nowadays, most rulers (if not all) misuse this advanced technology in lack of a
transparent law in order to monitor individuals in and out of their borders.
The discussion ends by demonstrating the role of art and photography in raising awareness, which
was one of my main goals for studying this subject in the last year. It also addresses some celebrated
contemporary artworks and photo series related to this issue.
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