期刊名称：The International Journal of Creative Media Research
电子版ISSN：2631-6773
出版年度：2019
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：1-5
DOI：10.33008/IJCMR.2019.07
出版社：Bath Spa University
摘要：Fear Filter is a digital artwork comprising of a mobile phone photo filters application for Android /
iOS platforms and a digital photo stream. The photo filters are created by gathering current and
historical information about the UK Threat Level from a live feed from MI5, the UK security service.
Photographs taken with the mobile application are transformed by the photo filters, each of which
correspond to a different moment in time and the related Threat Level from that period. The filters
cover the period 1 August 2006 until the present moment. Photos shared from the mobile
application are automatically posted to a public photo stream. The artwork draws together the
ubiquity of photography as a networked medium and the growing use of photo filters apps with the
invisible ubiquity of the UK Threat Level. Utilising pattern recognition and algorithmic image
analysis each photo filter visualises the UK Threat Level by colourising and redacting the subject
of the photograph according to the severity of the Terror Threat Level.
Fear Filter exploits the confluence of mobile digital photography, platforms, networks and the
online security theatre of the UK Threat Level to reformulate the relationship between photography
and terrorism.
