Putin's Jail Series:

Putin's Jail shows a series of images taken from unsecured surveillance cameras throughout Russia.

Many of these images show banal views of everyday Russian life; stairwells, forecourts, backyards, wastelands, industrial landscapes, premises etc.
However, anti-war, anti-Putin and pro-Ukraine slogans suddenly appear on some of the images.
Hackers have seized these cameras and manipulated the standard data in their own way.

Inserting counter-narratives into the surveillance image is a sophisticated attempt to undermine the cameras' missions - such as the state's control over its citizens.
These interventions, however successful, highlight the vulnerabilities of the Russian surveillance apparatus while also pointing to an information war being waged in the media on both sides of the conflict.

Here the intentions of the - possibly also private - camera owners were undermined by deliberately manipulating the software.

(In other series of my work, this happens, for example, through the conditionality of the camera as an object, through disruptions in the global data flow, etc.)