Scott Calonico

Germany 2026, 10 min
by Scott Calonico

The quiet geometry of 16mm surveillance footage from the Stasi secret police and files from New York’s Red Squad, found in the New York City Municipal Archives, assembles an architecture of surveillance in which observation is honed into a weapon. A detached AI voice guides us through the precision and errors of this targeting: within the analogue dispositives of the previous century, the blueprints of today’s algorithmic control begin to emerge. Source of Synopsis