Strategies of Counter-Surveillance: May 31

See Something, Say Something: Strategies of Counter-Surveillance
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 5pm
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street

In conjunction with the exhibition For Reasons of State, guest curators Angelique Campens, Erica Cooke, and Steven Lam have organized a panel discussion on the impact of governmental and corporate secrecy on life in our contemporary society and its manifestations in visual culture.

Speakers include: Karen Beckman is a Professor in the History of Art department at the University of Pennsylvania. Beckman is completing her book "Little Bastard": Car Crashes, Cinema, and the Politics of Speed and Stasis and is an editor at Grey Room. Peter Galison is a Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard University and has worked extensively with de-classified material including his 2008 film Secrecy (co-directed with Robb Moss). Thomas Y. Levin is a Princeton professor of media and cultural theory who has organized numerous exhibitions and conferences related to his continued research of the aesthetic politics of surveillance. Lin + Lam (Lin plus Lam) produce interdisciplinary projects that examine the ramifications of the past for the current socio-political moment. Yates McKee is a PhD candidate in Art History at Columbia University, and was associate editor of Nongovernmental Politics (published by Zone Books 2007).

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