WeiweiCam

WeiweiCam is a self-monitoring project of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the one year was on April 3, 2012 after his arrest by the Chinese authorities at Beijing airport online.

When Ai was released in June 2011 after 81 days of detention, he was not to leave the pad, Beijing. He was also using 15 cameras, which are mounted around his house, monitored 24 hours a day. This makes his home, according to the artist, the best-guarded place in the city. Ai installed then even four cameras directly into his house: one in his bedroom, one in the garden and two in his office. He put the live pictures on its website of the world public. However, the authorities forced him to make the website after 46 hours later offline. During this time, visited by more than 5.2 million Internet users the page. Ai sees his decision to monitor themselves, as a symbolic way to increase the transparency of government trade in China.

In 2012 WeiweiCam was seen in What We Watch, an exhibition of art and Internet monitoring in the COFAspace Gallery, UNSW College of Fine Arts.

Until 30 June 2013, the project was WeiweiCam in the exhibition Freedom! shown in Kunstpalais Erlangen. Additionally, the visitors were able to directly contact the artist on Twitter.

During the festival, NEW WORLDS - Asia meets Europe meets Asia, the music Viktring -Klagenfurt showed in cooperation with the Cultural Manager Manfred Paul Westphal the Internet installation WeiweiCam in the period from 13 to July 28, 2013 In addition to the presentation of WeiweiCam were in the music forum. exhibit two singles from Ai Weiwei new music video album, The Devine Comedy shown exclusively in July 2013. The music videos shown in Klagenfurt dumbass and Laoma Tihua reflect personal experiences in his captivity and his struggle for freedom and justice.