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#34 with guest speaker JUDITH BARRY

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From the Panoptic to the PantopicJudith Barry will discuss some of her installations and projects in relation to a broadly defined notion of surveillance and through questions of ‘spectatorship’ and ‘viewer participation’.  Some of the issues she will address include voyeurism and its relation to models of vision (including surveillance) and the scopic drive; tropes of interiority and subjectivity as they appear in the figure of the ‘flaneur/detective/female flaneuse/stalker’; observation as the model for identity/visioning/representation/responsibility/control along side the paradigm shifts posed through the ‘imaging’ of the ‘invisible’, remote sensing and nano technology.Judith Barry is an artist/writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, film/video, sculpture, architecture, photography, new media. Trained in architecture, film and literary theory, she received her MA in Computer Graphics from NYIT in 1986. She has exhibited internationally/nationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale (‘03), several Venice Biennale(s) of Art/Architecture (‘88, ‘90, ‘01), Sao Paolo Biennale (‘94), Nagoya Biennale,(‘93)  Carnegie International(‘01), Whitney Biennale (‘87), Sydney Biennale (‘82), and two InSites (San Diego/Tijuana) (‘97, ‘00), among many others. In 2000, she was awarded the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts and in 2001 her piece, “Voice off”, received “Best Pavilion” and “Audience Award” at the 8th Cairo Biennale. Public Fantasy, a collection of Barry’s essays, was published by the ICA, London, edited by Iwona Blazwick (1991). Other publications include Projections: mise en abyme, with an essay by Brian Wallis and interview between Judith Barry, Mark Wigley and Brian Wallis, Presentation House, Vancouver 1997; the catalogue for the Frederich Kiesler Prize, Vienna 2000, the catalogue for the 8th Cairo Biennale 2001, essay by Gary Sangster, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore and Study for the Mirror and Garden, Diputacion Granada, Spain with essays by Jan Avgikos and Jean Fisher (2003). Recent exhibitions include “Playback”, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (07), “Evidence of Movement”, Getty Museum (07) “Queens International”, Queens Museum, (’06), Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (’06) “SHOP 1V” Whitechapel Gallery (‘06), “Dark Places”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, (‘06), “Wall to be Destroyed”, Frac Lorraine, Metz (‘05), “Baroque/Neo Baroque”, DA2, Salamanca (‘05), “Phonorama”, ZKM, Karlsruhe (‘04), “East Village USA”, New Museum (‘04). In April 2008 a survey of her work will open in Domus Atrium 2, Salamanca, Spain and will travel in Europe.  She has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, Japan, and Europe. Currently, she is Director of the MFA Program at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University.

#33 Hacking Domestication: Embedded and Surveillant Technology in Animals

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GEMMA SHUSTERMAN

animals

“Hacking Domestication: Embedded and Surveillant Technology in Animals” is a preliminary inquiry into human hegemony and the use of animals (including humans), in conjunction with technology, as tools for social control. Animals have continuously been an integrated part of human warfare, espionage, and research endeavors. The role of domesticated “helper” has been played by various species — from the use of pigeons as messengers dating back to 1150, to the use of dolphins for surveillance and mine detection, to current DARPA research into implanting microchips in insects. Technology provides a framework for animals’ unwitting collusion with decidedly human agendas. Actions toward animals reflect both human attitudes of entitlement as a species and the substructure that supports stratification of our own human social systems.

november 6th 2007 / 11 am to 4 pm / vor sankt martin 1 / cologne

Gemma has worked as a floral designer, actor, dancer, software engineer, dishwasher, webmistress, acupressure technician, PBX technician, cocktail waitress, pilates and Gyrotonic® instructor, dance teacher, choreographer, baker’s assistant and designer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Art from Mills College in Oakland, California and a MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the Media Lab at MIT, in Cambridge Massachusetts where she worked with the Computing Culture Group.

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Free Fear from the USA (if you take it)

Vancouver, 2007

Part of Participatory Dissent, curated by Natalie Loveless for the Western Front.
In October 2007, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things reverse-shoplifted over 40 copies of The New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition into bookstores and educational institutions in Vancouver, BC. The dictionary catalogs over 60 terms related to fear and security which have entered American English since 9/11, including new terms (“freedom fries”, “islamofascist”) and old terms which have been redefined (“torture”). The books are now available for free in select Vancouver locations or on amazon.com for $19.95.

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#35 with guest speaker NANCY DAVENPORT

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NANCY DAVENPORTnancy12.jpgArtist Nancy Davenport will present her recent photographic and digital projects including “Workers (leaving the factory)”, an installation presented last September at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial. Throughout her work, Davenport has consistently explored architecture as a symbolic social space, specific built environments as sites of contested meaning and the temporal ambiguity of digital technology. All of her DVD projects have explicitly explored the territory between photography and film mediums; lost illusions of the ‘real’ and lost political illusions.nancy2.jpgnancy32.jpg