Help Us Spread Postcards That Push Back Against Surveillance
Image Not Found is looking for organisations, artists, cultural venues, festivals and community spaces to help spread our postcard campaign, Paint the Cameras Dead.
You can support the campaign by downloading, localising, printing and distributing the postcards, by sharing the initiative with your communities, or by requesting a small package of printed cards from us.
Who we are
Image Not Found is a small art collective with Bulgarian and Czech roots, based in Czechia and working at the intersection of artivism, technology, public space and civic participation.
Through campaigns that have reached communities across and beyond Europe, we use creative interventions to question systems, challenge apathy and encourage people to become active participants in public life.
We are part of IETM and the Community Arts Network. In 2025, we also supported DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague as patrons. These connections reflect our commitment to independent culture, international exchange and artistic practices that engage directly with contemporary social, civic and technological questions.
We treat public space as a playground, a stage and, occasionally, a bug in the system.
Through visual interventions, postcards, stickers, exhibitions, theatre and public experiments, we encourage people to notice what has become invisible, question the systems around them and take small but meaningful action.
Our work is built on a simple belief: art is not only decoration. A pencil, a spray can, a sticker, a postcard or a performance can interrupt routines, expose a problem and create space for a public response.
We do not ask people to wait for permission, large budgets or perfect conditions. We invite them to begin with what they already have.
Small actions against apathy
In one of our earlier interventions, we painted neglected potholes that the local authorities had ignored. Bright paint transformed an everyday problem into something visible, difficult to avoid and easy to photograph and share.
The potholes were repaired shortly afterwards. More importantly, the intervention challenged the familiar belief that ordinary people cannot influence the systems around them. The idea was later repeated in another city, where citizens used a similar action to draw attention to neglected streets.
We also created a sticker campaign addressing the phenomenon of smartphone zombies, sometimes called “smombies”. The stickers ask people to look up from their screens and notice the streets, people and situations around them. They have been distributed at free and open-source technology events in several European countries and beyond.
The campaign reflects another part of our practice: questioning how technology shapes attention, behaviour and relationships without presenting technology itself as the enemy.
Our exhibition SystemErr0 brings together examples of art-driven interventions that challenge political, social and technological systems. It asks visitors not only to observe, but also to react. Its central idea is that anyone can use a small creative act to make a system error visible.
That vision also entered the performing arts through SystemErr 2052, a theatre work inspired by Augusto Boal’s participatory methods. The play imagines a future in which rights and free will have been severely restricted, then asks audiences what actions in the present might prevent that future.
In this work, theatre becomes a space for active civic imagination, not only entertainment.
Across our projects, our position remains consistent: creativity can interrupt apathy. Small interventions can expose larger systems. Audiences can become participants.
Paint the Cameras Dead
Our current campaign, Paint the Cameras Dead, focuses on surveillance cameras that have quietly become part of the architecture of everyday life.
People walk beneath cameras, wait beside them and enter buildings under their gaze, often without noticing them. Once people begin looking up, they also begin asking questions:
Who installed this camera?
What does it record?
Who can access the footage?
Is it watching one entrance or an entire street?
The campaign does not claim that every camera is necessarily harmful. Its purpose is to make surveillance infrastructure visible and encourage informed public discussion about where cameras are placed, how they are used and how public space is changing.
We have created postcards that help people recognise cameras, examine their surroundings and map what they find. The cards are both practical tools and invitations to respond creatively.
A postcard may lead to a conversation, a drawing, a performance, a sticker, a local workshop or another intervention that we have not yet imagined.
The postcard is not the final action. It is an invitation to look up, ask questions and make hidden infrastructure visible again.
How you can support the campaign
There are three ways to participate.
1. Download, localise and print the postcards
The editable files can be translated and adapted to different languages, cities and local contexts.
Partners can print and distribute them through theatres, festivals, cultural centres, cafés, libraries, universities, exhibitions, workshops and community spaces.
We would also be happy to receive a copy or photograph of any localised version.
2. Share the initiative
Organisations can introduce the campaign through their websites, newsletters, social media, events and professional networks.
Even one mention can help the initiative reach communities that we cannot reach alone.
You can also share the campaign with organisations working in public art, digital rights, privacy, civil liberties, civic participation and community culture.
3. Request printed postcards
When local printing is not possible, contact us with a postal address and an indication of how many cards you could realistically distribute.
We may be able to send you a small package of printed postcards.
Let us stay in touch
As part of IETM and the Community Arts Network, and through our support for DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, we value lasting relationships across the independent arts and cultural sector.
We hope this campaign will connect us with more organisations working across art, technology, public space, digital rights and civic participation.
Whatever form your support takes, it would be wonderful to stay in touch, exchange ideas and explore future collaborations.
Read about Paint the Cameras Dead
See the finished postcards and learn how to use them
To collaborate, request printed cards or stay in touch, contact us at [email protected].
Some people will say nothing will change.
Do it anyway.
