PTS: Paranoid-Tracking-System, 2004 (2004)

PTS: Paranoid-Tracking-System is a software based installation, composed by gps-tracked cars and a bank of images from the city. It is a visual system that interprets the social fear provoked by the media and the newspapers in Mexico City. The sequence of images, are taken from the area where the tracked car is driving, and choose within in one of the five stages per picture, each assigned to a level of paranoia. This piece shows how in cities like Mexico, the idea of safety is not based on the reality of the area, but in the ideas created by the media about some areas in the city. Drivers that don’t belong to a neighborhood will see all around them as dangerous and menacing. All provoked by the media.

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Everything is built on a 5x5 variable matrix. Every area in the city is classified from 1 to 5 grade depending on the rate media and police department give them. But that number will change depending on the person driving routine. People tracked also have 5 grades depending on their habits. If there’s a shooting, fear grows temporarily until they stop talking about it. When a person is moving in the city, the combination of the person number and the area number will give a number between 1 and 5, and one of the pictures classified with that number will be showed. It comes from a bank of pictures for every area, each one with five stages of fear interpretation

Work metadata

  • Year Created: 2004
  • Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday Sep 16th, 2014
  • Original Url: http://gouvrit.org/pts.html
  • Work Credits:
    • florencegouvrit, primary creator
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