As many of you know from last year’s Conflux Festival, we are big fans of the culture of surveillance and contemporary protest art. Below is a cool event from our friend Marisa Olson, who created last year’s panel on Surveillance Culture at Conflux and also moderated it. If you are in Brooklyn next Saturday we’d recommend attending - ITP is a great program.

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SOUSVEILLANCE CULTURE CONFERENCE

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Presentations on the theory & practice of surveillance and contemporary protest art, by graduate students in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The presenters’ talks will be grouped into four panels, to be moderated by their Professor, Marisa Olson (Curator at Large, Rhizome), on topics ranging from voyeurism and play to intervention and networks of control. These panels will consist of both artist talks and critical essays, and audience members will be invited to give feedback on a few works in progress.

Venue: The Change You Want to See Gallery (84 Havemeyer @ Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY 11211)

L to Bedford or Lorimer, G to Metropolitan, J/M/Z to Marcy

http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

Hours: 12-5 pm, Saturday, April 26, 2008

Program:

11:45 Open Seating

12:00 Welcome & Introduction, Marisa Olson

12:05-1:15 Voyeurism vs. Exhibitionism: Online and In the Streets. Panelists: Allistar Peters and Meng Li, Ana Maria Gutierrez, Heather Rasley

1:15-2:00 Watchful Intervening: From Scientologists to Spy Shops. Panelists: Amanda Bernsohn and Kacie Kinzer, Syed Salahuddin

2-3:30 Playtime: Games, Toys, and Entertainment. Panelists: Oscar Torres, Scott Hoffer, Shlomit Lehavi and Leah Gilliam

3:30-5 Looking at Control: From Candidate Self-Surveillance to Wireless Subversion. Panelists: Michael Clemow and Tom Jenkins, Alberto Tafoya, Emery Martin