Surveillance and Control at Tate Modern is a half day conference which will consider widespread uses of electronic surveillance.
Welcome and introduction
Honor Harger, Tate Modern.
09.03.2002
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/38482994001#media:/media/38482994001/26086710001&context:/channel/most-popular
Sixth International Summer School
organised jointly by the EU FP7 project PrimeLife
and the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6
Privacy and Identity Management for Life (PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010)
to be held in Helsingborg, Sweden, 2nd – 6th August 2010
in cooperation with the EU FP7 project ETICA
http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool/
After the success of the 2009 PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School, the European project PrimeLife and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing, Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6) will continue their joint cooperation. This year they will hold an International Summer School on the topic of Privacy and Identity Management for Emerging Internet Applications throughout a Person’s Lifetime.
Emerging Internet Applications, such as Web 2.0 applications and cloud computing, increasingly pose privacy dilemmas. When they communicate over the Internet, individuals leave trails of personal data which may be stored for many years to come. In recent years, social network sites, where users tend to disclose very intimate personal details about their personal, social, and professional lives, have caused serious privacy concerns. The collaborative character of the Internet enables anyone to compose services and distribute information. Due to the low costs and technical advances of storage technologies, masses of personal data can easily be stored. Once disclosed, this data may be retained forever and be removed with difficulty. It has become hard for individuals to manage and control the release and use of information that concerns them. They may particularly find it difficult to eliminate outdated or unwanted personal information.
These developments raise substantial new challenges for personal privacy at the technical, social, ethical, regulatory, and legal levels:
Both IFIP, PrimeLife and ETICA take a holistic approach to technology and support interdisciplinary exchange. In particular, participants’ contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, ethical, philosophical, or psychological perspectives are welcome.
We are especially inviting contributions from students who are at the stage of preparing either masters’ or doctoral theses qualifications. The school is interactive in character, and is composed of keynote lectures and seminars, tutorials and workshops with PhD student presentations. The principle is to encourage young academic and industry entrants to the privacy and identity management world to share their own ideas and to build up a collegial relationship with others. Students that actively participate, in particular those who present a paper, can receive a course certificate which awards 3 ECTS at the PhD level. The certificate can certify the topic of the contributed paper to demonstrate its relation or non-relation to the student’s masters’/PhD thesis.
Related European, national, or regional/community research projects are also very welcome to present papers or to organise workshops as part of the Summer School.
A special one-day stream within the Summer School, to which abstracts/papers can be submitted directly, will be organised by the EU FP7 project ETICA on privacy and related ethical issues that arise from emerging information and communication technologies.
Paco Underhill is the founder of Envirosell, a trailblazer in observational research.
Because of sensitivities surrounding privacy, some retailers are reluctant to discuss surveillance technology. And exactly how many cameras are tracking shoppers is not known, partly because cameras are installed and uninstalled during various studies. (The videotape is for internal use only).
But industry professionals said interest in analyzing shoppers was growing. Video analysis companies said nearly every major chain was or had been a client, including giants like Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy Company Incorporated”.
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/business/20surveillance.html
The San Francisco Art Institute is pleased to welcome New York City–based artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles as the inaugural Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Studies.
A major intervention in feminist performance practices and public art, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 1969 manifesto Maintenance Art: Proposal for an Exhibition argues for the intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor—a relationship whose intricacies and ramifications she has been unraveling, in one form or another, ever since. Starting in 1977, she became artist-in-residence (unsalaried) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enables her to introduce radical public art as public culture into a system serving and owned by the entire population. Recent permanent commissions include Percent-for-Art Freshkills Park Project in New York City (formerly the world’s largest municipal landfill), Danehy Park in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), and the Maine College of Art in Portland (Maine, USA). Current and recent temporary exhibitions include performances and installations at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga (California), the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Creative Time in New York City, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv (Israel), and the 2007 Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). She has completed six “work ballets” that involve workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables in cities across the globe. Laderman Ukeles is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of many grants and fellowships from the NEA and the New York State Council on the Arts.
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
800 345 SFAI / 415 749 4500
Monday, May 3 – Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Overview
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Werkschau Kenneth Anger | 08.03.2010 | 15.03.2010 | BLACK BOX Düsseldorf
Programm
alle Veranstaltungen finden statt in der
BLACK BOX im Filmmuseum, Schulstraße 4, Düsseldorf-Altstadt
Montag 8. März 2010 | 18:30 Uhr
“Anger me”
USA 2006, 72’, OF, Blu-ray
R.: Elio Gelmini, mit Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas
Full HD-Projektion (technische Unterstützung: SIGMA Düsseldorf)
mehr >>
Montag 8. März 2010 | 20:00 Uhr
Filme von Kenneth Anger (1)
Das Programm:
Fireworks (USA 1947, 16’36) / Puce Moments (USA 1949, 6’29) / Rabbits Moon
(USA 1950/ 71, 7’02) Eaux d´Artifice (USA 1953, 13’13) / Inauguration of the
Pleasuredome (USA 1954, 38’). Alle Filme: OF, Blu-ray
Full HD-Projektion (technische Unterstützung: SIGMA Düsseldorf)
mehr >>
Montag 15. März 2010 | 18:00 Uhr
“One Plus One”
GB 1968, 101’, OmU, DVD
R.: Jean-Luc Godard, mit Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman,
Charlie Watts, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Anne Wiazemsky
Weitere Informationen
www.imaionline.de
www.filmwerkstatt-duesseldorf.de
I Spy: Surveillance and Security
Feb 26 – Apr 30, 2010
Sun Valley Center for the Arts
191 5th Street East
Ketchum, Idaho
208.726.9491
http://www.sunvalleycenter.org
I Spy: Surveillance and Security, a multidisciplinary project of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, examines the relationship between surveillance, security and privacy in the early 21st century. A visual art exhibition is on view from February 26 through April 30.
The attempted bombing on Christmas Day of a Detroit-bound flight reopened the urgent national conversation about security and surveillance that has been going on since September 11, 2001. Government today has unprecedented access into our lives. At the same time that we are debating how to balance civil rights against our need for security, corporations use hidden cameras and track our internet use to sell us their products. Millions of us willingly (or unwittingly) give up our privacy to participate in social networking sites like Facebook.
How has increased governmental and corporate intrusion into our lives shaped our assumptions about what is private and what is public? How has our definition of civil liberties changed? What effect has the Internet and the boom in social networking sites had on our behavior? Are we safer now than we were before?
The exhibition features work by artists Deborah Aschheim, Hasan Elahi, Trevor Paglen and Paul Shambroom.
Between 2003 and 2005, Deborah Aschheim created six installations she called Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building). “Nervous systems” for architecture, these sculptural projects reflect our tendency to think about buildings in human terms. They also convey our ambivalence toward surveillance; technologies that initially seem invasive or Orwellian eventually become simple conveniences. The sculpture Aschheim presents in this exhibition is a recreation of one neural column from her earlier projects.
Hasan Elahi has made his everyday life part of his artwork. Erroneously targeted as a suspected terrorist and interrogated by the FBI, Elahi decided that his best defense was to open up his life to public and governmental scrutiny. Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project is an online database that documents his travels, finances and even the meals he eats on airplanes. For I Spy, Elahi is creating a timely installation that considers security and surveillance in the world of aviation. Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project is a project of Creative Capital.
The work of artist, writer and geographer Trevor Paglen explores the relationship between surveillance and security in a post-September 11th world. His long-distance photographs of secret military installations, badges from classified military programs and photos of U.S. spy satellites in orbit expose a world of secret operations and surveillance that sometimes exists in plain sight.
>From 2003 to 2007 Paul Shambroom photographed Homeland Security training environments like “Disaster City” in Texas and “Terror Town” in New Mexico. His images of personnel in their disaster gear, training in simulated settings, get at the difficulty we sometimes have discerning between legitimate security threats and paranoid fear. Shambroom is a 2001 Creative Capital Visual Arts grantee.
Related Programs
Lecture: Living in a Wired World: Can Personal Privacy Survive in the 21st Century?
by Frederick Lane
Attorney, author and technology expert
Wed, Mar 10, 7pm
Lecture: The Role of Surveillance in National Security
by John Lehman
Former Secretary of the Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission
Thu, Apr 1, 7pm
March 5 – May 5, 2010
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents “Envelopes,” an exhibition exploring new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. “Envelopes” will feature full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings in the form of drawings and computer animations, and documentation of the process of investigation into these models from eight international firms and designers. The exhibition will run from March 5 through May 5, 2010 and will be celebrated with an opening reception on Thursday, March 4 from 6–8 PM. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
“Envelopes” is guest curated by Christopher Hight, an associate professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture. At Rice, Hight pursues design research on the nexus of landscape, ecology, and emerging forms of urbanization. He is the co-editor of AD: Collective Intelligence in Design (Academy Press, 2006), Heterogeneous Space (Wiley, 2009), and has recently published a book on cybernetics, posthumanism, formalism, and post-World War II architectural design titled Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics (Routledge, 2008).
Hight conceived of “Envelopes” as a way to explore architectural skin as a site for enveloping nature and culture, object and subject, and of problematizing the boundary of interior and exterior. “Issues of sustainability and ecology raise many conceptual and design issues about the nature of the boundary between body, building, and larger environments,” said the curator. “The architects in ‘Envelopes’ are all exploring relationships between systems—human, animal, plant, and energy flow—as a site for architectural innovation in the 21st century,” he added.
Hight’s inspiration for the exhibition title and concept originated from parallels between the envelope of a building and the envelope of human skin; the building envelope repeats the metaphor of the building as a body and as a prosthetic second skin that allows human beings to exist within a hostile environment.
Inspired by early 20th century biologist Jacob von Uexkull and his interest in how living beings relate to and perceive their environment, the title of the show refers to the role of the building envelope and the idea of envelopment of one’s body and senses within a larger environment.
Participating architects and architecture firms include:
!ndie Architecture, a Denver-based firm that engages in a range of architectural and urban questions through research projects and practice, with a specialization in digital and industrial technology, housing, and suburbanism; Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative bridging architecture and landscape urbanism with material sciences, robotics, and engineering HouMinn Practice, a Houston-based firm recognized for its research and innovative design whose collaborative efforts reach beyond the discipline of architecture; Mary Ellen Carroll/MEC design studios, a New York-based conceptual artist; Michael U. Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel are research directors and board members at OCEAN, an the international, interdisciplinary, and independent research firm that conducts research by design in the intersection between architecture, design, music, and science with the goal of improving the current built enviro nment and anthropobiosphere; Philippe Rahm, an architect who practices out of Paris and Lausanne and focuses on ‘meterological’ architecture; servo, an international research and design collaborative that focuses on the development of architectural environments through the proliferation of electronic and digital equipment and interfaces; Weathers, a Chicago-based environmental design office that studies social, spatial, and organizational structures and their implications to lifestyle and environment.
“Envelopes” is made possible by part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
For information, call 212-647-7778 or email exhibits [at] pratt [dot] edu or visit http://pratt.edu/exhibitions
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http://www.ikatun.org/kanarinka/corporate-commands/
Opening reception/Inauguración: 7PM Feb 18, Palacio de la Cultura Rafael Uribe Uribe, Medellín
kanarinka artist talk/charla: 4PM Feb 17, Museo d’Antioquia, Medellín
INVERSIONES is a curatorial project that conducts research about art and its economic implications, through the exploration of concepts such as exchange, investment and transaction, roles and offices mediated by artists, appropriation and resignification of trade marks, consumerism strategies, circulation and collectionism. The relationships between communities and artists within the Central-Western Region: including the Colombian states of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda and Quindio interact with other artists and communities around the world, proposing alternative ways to articulate ideas regarding art, economy, society and representation.
INVERSIONES: [arte + intercambios + transacciones] es un proyecto curatorial que propone una investigación y reflexión sobre el arte y sus implicaciones económicas, a través de la exploración de los conceptos de intercambio, inversión y transacción, roles y oficios mediados por artistas, apropiación y resignificación de marcas, estrategias de consumo, circulación y coleccionismo, así como de las relaciones entre comunidades y artistas en la región Centro Occidente: departamentos de Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda y Quindío, y de estos, con otros que operan en diversos lugares del mundo, quienes presentan diversas alternativas de articulación y problematización de los supuestos de arte, economía, sociedad y representación.
Inversiones is curated by/Equipo curatorial: Analida Cruz, Femke Lutgerink, Adriana Ríos & Carlos Uribe