Urban Generation collects live CCTV feeds from London in real-time and reworks these video streams into multi-layered visual structures, depicting an evolving view of the urban landscape and its inhabitants.

"Urban Generation is visually rich and noticeably silent. As twelve live data streams alternately stutter in and out of existence and flow into abstract patterns and textures, the "live" scenes captured in real-time on CCTVs scattered throughout London quickly morph into kaleidoscopic Rorschachs that alter our initial perceptions and demand analysis. A generative work, it calls into question the "urban generation," a period during which the threat of terrorism has made our environment ripe for surveillance and privacy abuse. Private space has become public space, public space has evolved into covertly "governed" or overtly corporate space.

According to the Associated Press "[a]n estimated 4.2 million cameras - largely concentrated in London and other major cities - observe Britons as they go about their daily business, [and] it is widely estimated that the average Briton is caught on various cameras up to 300 times on a normal day."

Urban Generation makes visible that which invisibly and silently tracks our movements, habits, and preferences. It forces us to ask ourselves whether pervasive surveillance is inevitable, and whether it is sufficient to allow these billions of hours of stored data to serve as evidence after the fact rather than prevention."

Joanne Green- Turbulence