http://www.channel4.com/programmes/we-live-in-public
We Live in Public
Channel 4 documentary based on Josh Harris, the self proclaimed "digital prophet", who started the trend of broadcasting personal information across the internet.
"In 1999, Harris hired Timoner to document his millennial bunker project in Manhattan, an audacious Big Brother-style social experiment filled with 150 volunteer human lab rats. Everything they did was recorded on CCTV cameras. Everyone could tune in to watch each other having sex, taking a shower or sitting on the toilet. Amazingly, there was even a shooting range with live ammunition."
Very interesting, very scary.
William Blake (1795/circa 1805) Newton, Colour print finished in ink and watercolour on paper support: 460 x 600 mm on paper, unique Tate Britain
Thanks for this reference Luke - I wasn't aware of this forerunner to 'Big Brother'. There was an earlier, slightly different project in the 1974, in which the life of an ordinary family was recorded on TV and broadcast in installments to the nation (with some negative effects on the family I think). This was revived by Channel 4 in 2008. There is a Guardian article on this at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/28/channel4.television
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