Left: Hokusai’s “Great Wave.”Right: A fractal “Dragon,” visualizing the underlying math of iterative growth. “As soon as surveillance technology is installed, first it produces of course a counter reaction of the desire for privacy…but it [also] produces the fact that there are gaps, and as soon as you put up SOME cameras, you see that there are spots that you can’t see. Surveillance constantly wants more of itself. We constantly debate whether we control technology or technology controls us....

Left: Hokusai’s “Great Wave.”Right: A fractal “Dragon,” visualizing the underlying math of iterative growth. “As soon as surveillance technology is installed, first it produces of course a counter reaction of the desire for privacy…but it [also] produces the fact that there are gaps, and as soon as you put up SOME cameras, you see that there are spots that you can’t see. Surveillance constantly wants more of itself. We constantly debate whether we control technology or technology controls us....