Auteur

The direction that advanced technology takes the position of the artist is pretty disturbing, and confusing too. The position of authority offered by surveillance technology, and arguably by photography to a certain extent, is the lack of human interference in capturing the real. Where is the artistry? When it comes to surveillance technology as an art form, the artist is more of an orchestrator, his auteur-ship more a practice of securing means of production than guaranteeing accurate depiction. I think its interesting that, in this way, the auteur seems to attain a higher level of importance and authority not as an artist but as exerting some kind of economical or maybe even political control through the possession of technology, rather than a traditional definition of artistic talent.