!Mediengruppe Bitnik - Still from Surveillance Camera Footage in Restaurant, Essen City Center, 2010

!Mediengruppe Bitnik - Still form Surveillance Camera Footage, Santa Efigenia, Sao Paulo, 2008

!Mediengruppe Bitnik - Still from Surveillance Camera Footage of staff kitchen in a shop, Rotterdam, 2008

Stills from CCTV Dérives: Essen (DE), Sao Paulo (BR), Rotterdam (NL)

Since 2008, !Mediengruppe Bitnik has been conducting walks through the sceneries of invisible cities: Equiped with self-built CCTV video signal receivers and video recording devices they organise Dérives in search of hidden - and usually invisible - surveillance camera signals in public space. Surveillance becomes sousvellance: The self-built tools provide access to „surveillance from above“ by capturing and displaying CCTV signals, thus making them visible and recordable.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Participants of CCTV Dérive in Essen 2010 find a surveillance camera signal

!Mediengruppe Bitnik - Participants of CCTV Dérive in Essen 2010 show surveillance camera signal to staff

CCTV - A Trail of Images, Hacking the City, Folkwang, Essen, 2010

!Mediengruppe Bitnik - CCTV A Trail of Images video installation 2009

CCTV A Trail of Images in exhibition "A Parasite's Delights", Binz39 Zürich, 2009

Fanzine

Example of a Fanzine Booklet from CCTV Dérive (PDF) (London 12.05.2009)

Press

United Aliens TV, Online Magazine, Sep 09, 2009, (AT),

Tagesanzeiger, Newspaper, Jun 05, 2009, (CH)

DU, Print Magazine, May 01, 2009, (CH)

SRF Swiss Radio Television: «Reflexe», Radio, Apr 28, 2009, (CH)