Foucault's Panopticon in Today's Society: New Approaches in Art

Abstract

Since the beginning of mankind until the end of the Middle Ages, the image of the universe reflected a theological vision to turn around the man in the sixteenth century. With the advent of the industrial revolution, the cyclical conception of time advocated by humanism is passed to the modern idea of progress. Finally, there is the evolution of the disciplinary society organized around the factory as indoors and in which the individual knows who holds the power to control society's technological era delocalized in companies with individuals having access information to a certain level. The man stands at the panopticon and know you are being watched, become a form of entertainment voyeuristic and exhibitionist. The perversion of the computerized world in which optimism about the possibility of seeing everything, is opposed to information control and surveillance. This dehumanization affects the plastic field, which aims to provide solutions through a participatory art with new approaches, aesthetic and media. Open Works to be executed, and not just read.