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My friend Bill Brown is one founder of the Situationist-inspired performance group, The Surveillance Camera Players. He describes the SCP as "a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places."

They have presented brief versions of theatrical plays (Ubu Roi), an adaptation of 1984, and such original works as God's Eyes on Earth and It's OK, Officer, for the benefit of the unblinking eye and the blinking public.

Bill continues to perform his walking tours of surveillance camera installations in various cities - there are more of these cameras around, situated to no overt purpose, than you might think. Contact him via SCP(at)notbored.org.

It's been a while since a new SCP-inspired performance group sprang up, but Bill is pleased to share the info that a new group, The COMO Surveillance Camera Players, has sprung up in response to a proposed festering of cameras in downtown Columbia, Missouri.

More info about SCP, Bill, Guy Debord and other Situationists can be found at notbored.org. Or you can read his book American Colossus: The Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943, which, despite its title, is not a trashy summer read, but nonetheless interesting.