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Surveillance Mechanisms and Bodily Reconfiguration in the Age of AI Technocapitalism: Focusing on the Works of Trevor Paglen and Kim Ayoung

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2025, 0(58), pp.307~331
  • DOI : 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.013
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : October 25, 2025
  • Accepted : November 30, 2025
  • Published : December 31, 2025

Shin Jiwon 1 Lee Kang Wook 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examines how the surveillance mechanisms of AI technocapitalism reorganize bodily experience and temporal structures through the works of Trevor Paglen and Kim Ayoung. Paglen’s practice exposes the material infrastructures of planetary surveillance—from satellites and undersea cables to data centers—and reveals how technological power configures the world at a global scale. In contrast, Kim Ayoung’s series Delivery Dancer captures the ways platform algorithms modulate a worker’s movement, sensation, and inner temporality, demonstrating how surveillance shifts from an external apparatus to an internalized corporeal rhythm. By placing these divergent approaches in dialogue—one oriented toward the outward architecture of control, the other toward its embodied and affective inscription—this study elucidates the layered constitution of surveillance today, wherein space, technology, and the body are simultaneously reorganized.

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