Miguel Monroy teaches La imagen vigilada, Module 4 of the Certificate in Visual Studies, Los cuerpos de la imagen, Second edition in 17 Critical Studies.
This course is designed to provide students with research paths to analyze visual production from a critical perspective towards the manifestations of the image that aim at the control of the population, either with police motives by the state, or to obtain economic benefit from the commodification of user data by large corporations. The pieces analyzed are located at the center of the conflict, commenting or criticizing different topics about surveillance models, put into operation from the seventies to the present.
With the arrival of new technologies, the image has acquired an unprecedented potentiality, for being used, generated and shared by the public, but at the same time, the possibilities to control that public by states or corporations, through geolocation tools, neural networks and biometric algorithms in those same images, have increased in the same way.These images are at the same time, the liberation and persecution of the users who produce them.