Visual Influences

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• Bentham’s Panopticon Prison• Power• Control• Surveillance

• Guillermo Gomez Peno ‘Undiscovered Amerindians’• Postcolonial• Voyeurism• Experiment in how public react to individuals in captivity

• ‘To you, the Birdie’ Wooster Group• Technology and materialism• Live recording of events and looping• TVs and video• Alternative reality through surveillance

• Big Brother TV Show• Cult of celebrity• Control• 24 hour surveillance• Game show

• Jade Goody, Big Brother Series 3• Memorable and controversial character• Caliban-figure• Little knowledge and uncivilised

• Nikki Graham, Big Brother Series 8• Naïve and young• Basis for character of Miranda

• Pete and Nikki – parallel relationship of Miranda and Ferdinand in contemporary culture

• Relationship within TV show under surveillance

• Big Brother Diary Room• Reveals character• One-to-one• Control over characters

• CCTV control rooms• Centre of all power• Eyes everywhere• Invasion of privacy or there for security?