Books that discuss or document the work of the Surveillance Camera Players
(chronological order)



-- Border Crossings, Arts Manitoba (Arts Manitoba Publications, 2000).

-- [Net.art 2.0]: Neue Materialien zur Netkunst, by Tilman Baumgartel (Verlag fuer moderne Kunst Nuernberg: Nuerberg, 2001).

-- Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins and Applications, Julie K. Petersen (CRC Press, 2001).

-- A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Richard Kostelanetz (Routledge, 2001).

-- La Conquista de la Ubicuidad, edited by Jose Luis Brea (A.G. Novograf, S.A.: Madrid, 2003).

-- Connected, Or, What it Means to Live in the Network Society, Steven Shaviro (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

-- The Interventionists: Users' manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, edited by Nato Thompson and Gregory Scholette (North Adams and Cambridge: MASS MoCA and MIT Press, 2004).

-- It's your world--if you don't like it, change it: activism for teenagers, by Mikki Halpin (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

-- Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space, John Edward McGrath (Routledge, 2004).

-- Eccentric America, Second Edition: The Bradt Travel Guide to All That's Weird and Wacky in the USA (Bradt Travel Guide, 2004).

-- Connessioni Legendarie: Net.Art 1995-2005, by Marco Deseriis and Domenico Quaranta (Milano: Ready-Made, 2005).

-- Computer Privacy Annoyances: How To Avoid the Most Annoying Invasions of Your Personal and Online Privacy, Dan Tynan (O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005).

-- Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, Patrick Radden Keefe (Random House, 2005).

-- Cyber Spying: Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives, Ted Fair, et al (Syngress, 2005).

-- Decifrando a Fortaleza Digital, Ségio Pereira Couto (Digerati, 2005).

-- Stanza Ribelli: Immaginando lo spazio hacker, by Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter (Roma: Edilstampa, 2006).

-- Media Art Net: Survey of Media Art, Volume 1, Rudolf Frieling (Springer, 2006).

-- The Politics of New Media Theatre, Gabriella Giannachi (Routledge, 2006).

-- Are Privacy Rights Being Violated? Stuart A. Kallen (Greenhaven, 2006).

-- Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture, edited by Sheila Petty and Annie Gerin (Canada: Wildrid Laurier University Press, 2006).

-- Surveillance, crime and social control, Clive Norris and Dean Wilson (Ashgate, London, 2006).

-- Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices, written by Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson and Katie Normington (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).

-- Panel de Control: Interruptores Criticos para una Sociedad Vigilada, compiled by Fundacion Rodriguez and Zemos98 (Barcelona: Zemos98, 2007).

-- Crime and punishment in contemporary culture, Claire Grant (Routledge, 2007).

-- The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, by Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn (Columbia University Press, 2007).

-- Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision, Dianne Suzette Harris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).

-- Dead history, live art?: spectacle, subjectivity and subversion in visual culture since the 1960s, Jonathan P. Harris (Tate Gallery Liverpool / Liverpool University Press, 2007).

-- Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C., Margaret E. Farrar (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

-- nicht alles tun. Ziviler und Sozialer Ungehorsam an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, radikaler Politik und Technologie, bilingual edition, Jens Kastner and Bettina Spoerr (Unrast, Wien, 2008).

-- Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit McCullough (Routledge, 2008).

-- Urban Guerilla Protest 1995-2005, bilingual edition, Ake Rudolph, (Mark Batty, Berlin, 2008).

-- Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette (NYU Press, New York, 2008).

-- The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance, Colin J. Benet (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008).

-- Bilder der Überwachung, Dietmar Kammerer (edition suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M., 2008).

-- Kontroll Verluste: Interventionen Gegen Ueberwachung, Leipziger Kamera (Unrast Verlag, Munster, 2009).

-- Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS, Jeremy W. Crampton (John Wiley and Sons, 2009).

-- Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces, Adriana de Souza e Silva (Peter Lang, 2009).

-- Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects, Possibilities, James F. Hamilton (Lexington Books, 2009).

-- Art and the Subway: New York Underground, Tracy Fitzpatrick (Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 2009).

-- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, Winifred Gallagher (Penquin Group, 2009).

-- Looking back: editors' selections from 50 years of studies in art education, Kerry J. Freedman (National Art Education Association, 2009).

-- Artivisme: Art, Action et Resistance Culturelle, Stephanie Lemoine and Samira Ouardi (Editions Alternatives, 2010).

-- Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, Torin Monahan (Rutgers University Press, 2010).

-- Videozone V: The 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, Sergio Edelsztein (The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2010).

-- La ciudad cautiva. Orden y vigilancia en el Espacio Urbano, José Miguel G. Cortés (Ediciones AKAL, 2010).

-- Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control, Brenda Goldstein, Kirsty Robertson, and Sarah Smith (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010).

-- Alternative and Activist New Media, Leah Lievrouw (Polity, 2011).

-- The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York, Jonathan Wynn (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

-- Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding (Scarecrow Press, 2011).

-- Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada, J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2011).

-- Digital Universe: The Global Telecommunication Revolution, Peter B. Seel (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).

-- The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness, Eric Cazdyn (Duke University Press, 2012).

-- Media Life, Mark Deuze (Polity, 2012).

-- Intersections: Practices of Curating, Education and Theory, Angela Harutyunyan (AICA-Armenia, 2012).

-- Performance Studies: An Introduction, Richard Schechner (Routledge, 2013).

-- Eyes Everywhere: The Global Growth of Camera Surveillance, Aaron Doyle, Randy Lippert and David Lyon (Routledge, 2013).

-- Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, Frances Stracey (Pluto Press, 2014).

-- The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, Tim Maly and Emily Horne (Coach House Books, 2014).

-- Keywords in Subversive Film / Media Aesthetics, Robert Stam (John Wiley & Sons, 2015).

-- Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014, Greil Marcus (Yale University Press, 2015).

-- Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance, Pramod K. Nayar (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

-- global activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Weibel (ZKM/MIT Press, 2015).

-- Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies, edited by Daniel Araya (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

-- A Companion to Popular Culture, Gary Burns (John Wiley & Sons, 2016).

-- The Digital Nexus: Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement, Raphael Foshay (Athabasca University Press, 2016).

-- Security and Privacy, Volume 3, Joseph Savirimuthu (Routledge, 2016).

-- Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance, Elise Morrison (University of Michigan Press, 2016).

-- Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty, Benjamin Flowers (Routledge, 2016).

-- Theatre Histories: An Introduction, Bruce McConachie, et al (Routledge, 2016).

-- Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures, Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper, Timon Beyes (transcript Verlag, 2017).

-- Vom Experiment zur Neuorientierung: Forschungswege der Germanistik im 21. Jahrhundert, Ana Maria Bernardo, Fernanda Mota Alves, Ana Margarida Abrantes (Frank & Timme GmbH, 2017).

-- Surveillance, Crime and Social Control, Dean Wilson (Routledge, 2017).

-- Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance, James M. Harding (University of Michigan Press, 2018).

-- The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium, Paula Albuquerque (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).


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