NSA, geolocation, tracking, wire tapping, digital finger prints, airport filters, etc. The digital world sure is a fine playground for any kind of superior surveillance.

So obviously, when an artist like Jakub Geltner is playing around with surveillance cameras, satellite dishes and security equipment in unusual areas, we love it immediately! The installations of the Czech artist are actually quite subtle and draw attention to the presence of being watched and filmed all the time; a testimony to the fact that we are losing our freedom gradually. Living and working in Prague, Geltner created his first installation directly in the center of the city, perfectly assimilating into the surrounding architecture and design of the contemporary urban landscape.

The ingenuity of this project called “Nest” is to place this “security” equipment in very absurd places such as churches, in elementary schools or in the middle of the sea. Geltner is working on it since 2011 and as he explains: "the growth process of a nest on the facades of buildings or in different urban spaces can be implemented as a congestion point or as a starting point of an infection".