Leave us alone (2024)

Watching the surveillance industry in an intimate moment. A robotic installation with moving surveillance cameras.

Two robotic surveillance cameras enjoy an intimate moment, soft movements and touch, a kind of dance. But if one steps too close to the cameras, they quickly jerk and move their gaze towards the intruder, they are now forced to do their work: Surveillance. After a while they resume their robotic dance.

All the main parts of the installation are built from re-purposed electro-trash: Some mechanical parts and motors from two old moving heads. Before they were rescued, the cameras were forced to watch ‘LKW Laderampe 1’ and ‘Eingangsbereich’.

Materials: Salvaged mechanics from moving heads, aluminum profiles, rescued surveillance cameras, ESP32 and various electronics, Unity, Kinect.

All code is public.

Shown at:

• Hack The Promise Festival, Basel (October 2024).
• Chaos Communication Congress 38c3 Art&Play Area, Hamburg (December 2024)