Steve Mann; Privacy and Wearable Computing, WearCam-related privacy issues, WearComp-related privacy issues, etc..

More on art (invited plenary lecture at Ars Electronica, along with a week long performance piece there called "Sicherheitsglaeser"): http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/sicherheitsglaeser/
Smart clothing: Turning the tables (how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive) ACM Multimedia 96, Boston, MA, 1996 You can also download a PostScript version of this paper
WearComp/WearCam, etc. journal=Personal Technologies, Vol.1 No.1, March 1997
Eudaemonic Eye CHI-97, Atlanta, 1997
WearComp mission statement (published in CACM; Vol.39,8; August 1996)
Wearable Wireless Webcam and related privacy issues.
Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled) Feb. 2, 1996 (adapted to paper i presented at AAAI, Nov. 1996)
Retrospective exhibit of various embodiments of the WearComp/WearCam inventions from over the last 20 years, with an emphasis on embodiments selected to question the role of surveillance in society: http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/lvac/

If you're in the MIT area, you might also want to look at Steve Mann's ShootingBack exhibit in the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC), located on the first floor of building E15, which also houses the Media Lab, located at 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA. There, on display, are some embodiments of his "WearComp"/"WearCam" invention selected from the 100 or so units he's built over the last 20 years. The few units that were selected for the show are those that are most relevant to issues of surveillance in society (re-situating the video camera in a disturbing and disorienting fashion in order to challenge our pre-conceived notion of surveillance in society). WearComp empowers the individual who would be otherwise vanquished in the face of large hegemonic organizations.

Contact:

Prof. Steve Mann
University of Toronto
Department of Electrical Engineering, Room S.F. 2001,
10 King's College Road; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; M5S 3G4
Tel. 416.946-3387
Fax. 416.971-2326
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann

You may also want to visit Mann's University of Toronto faculty WWW page at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann