ARTICLES/IMAGES
RETRONAUT, July 5, 2011
1910-1919, Politics / “In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes. The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground. [...]
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Reuters
Feb 21, 2014
Ukraine is the size of Texas, but for the last three months its burgeoning protest movement has largely crowded into the space of 10 city blocks. [...]
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Rhizome
In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the human body and its capacity for adaptive prosthesis, the very purpose of technology is to be that which the human is not or to achieve that which the human could not otherwise do. As such, technology exists beyond the humanist understanding of the individual, the body, and the subject, particularly in contemporary network culture in which technology is in part transformed from concrete and material objects into molecular, adaptive, and often invisible systems. Much as with the animal world, technology seems to suggest a mode of communication and media beyond that of human language, a mode of being or becoming that exceeds our own. [...]
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Machinology
February 24, 2014
jussiparikka
Perhaps
photochemical smog is the only true new visual media of post World War II technological culture. It represents the high achievements in science and technology, combined with (synthetic) chemistry and sunlight. It modulates the light like advanced visual media should and embeds us in its augmented reality as we suck it into our lungs. [...]
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PAST EXHIBITION (SURVEILLANCE/EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS)
project:rendition was a collabora-tive project that incorporated elements of installation, printed agitprop, audio, and performanceinto an interactive environment. The project wasproduced by JC 2 , a collective comprising the artistsJoy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Carrie Moyer, and CarrieYamaoka.[...]
In Public Culture, Duke University Press
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CURRENTLY
Todd Eberle, (Untitled) IBM 1620 Data Processing System, 1968, 1999, photograph. Courtesy: © Todd Eberle
frieze
Safety in Numbers?
Survey
Algorithms, Big Data and surveillance: what’s the response, and responsibility, of art? Jörg Heiser asked seven artists, writers and academics to reflect. [...]
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PAST EXHIBITION (ON ARCHIVES)
Artist Nada Shalaby's "You and I and Time is Long" explores the history and myths of Tel el Yehudiya, Egypt. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.
Artists Activating the Archive
December 2013 - January 2014
References—a group exhibition recently held at the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo—presents four artistic projects that were developed over a year using research and archival processes. Nada Shalaby’s You and I and Time is Long, for example, assembles a collection of images and texts inspired by the archaeological site of Tel el Yehudiya. Shalaby’s archive presents multiple accounts of the ancient site, weaving political, social, historical, and imaginary narratives. In Aliaa Salah’s Lines in the Sea, the local newspaper becomes a site where the personal and political implications of territorial and economic claims in the eastern Mediterranean are played out. [...]
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CURRENT EXHIBITION (ON SECURITY, ETC)
Elizabeth Duffy
Security Envelope Drawing
2004-14
Pencil on Security Envelope Collage
15.75 x 9.25 inches
40 x 23.5 centimeters
Two simultaneous exhibitions by artists Elizabeth Duffy and Cheryl Yun are currently on view through 15 March, 2014. Both artists will be present at the gallery this Saturday, March 1st, 2014 from 2- 4 pm for an artist talk scheduled in conjunction with these exhibits.
dm contemporary NYC
39 East 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
TEL 212 576 2032
Apartment 2B is an installation in which Elizabeth Duffy transforms the main gallery space into a domestic environment that is realistic and almost credible, until one takes a closer look only to realize that the patterns throughout the space seem strangely familiar - they are the same patterns found lining security envelopes that bills get mailed in to keep sensitive information protected and private. Finding inspiration in a disposable material, that is quickly becoming a relic of the past thanks to email, Duffy collects, draws, scans, prints, and embroiders, to reproduce a variety of data protection patterns on a vast range of materials and objects.[read on...]
Cheryl Yun
HALTER TEDDY WITH SUICIDE BELT
Kidnapping, Beheadings, and Defining What's News (The Secret Islamic Army: there is no god but Allah, Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.)
Sunday, August 1, 2004 / 2005
Archival inkjet on Gampi Tissue
Size 8
In the project room of the gallery, is another thought provoking installation, The Cheryl Yun Collection / Storefront, in which Cheryl Yun sets up a high-end boutique that displays one-of-a-kind, meticulously handcrafted lingerie [....]
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LECTURES (UPCOMING)
Trevor Paglen
Feb 26
7pm
Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Trevor Paglen's work deliberately blurs lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. [...]
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Thursday, March 6, 6:30pm
At EFA Project Space, 323 W. 39th Street, 2nd floor in Manhattan
In an age where everything is archived and the need to delete is almost nonexistent, can we remain private anymore? Hasan Elahi will discuss the new normal of post 9/11 privacy and describe his experiences with FBI interrogations and his subsequent projects in the lecture, “Hiding in Plain Sight”. An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions.
After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” (http://trackingtransience.net) and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public. Predating the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program by nearly a decade, the project questions the consequences of living under constant surveillance and has continuously generated a database of imagery and locative information that tracks the artist and his points of transit in real-time. Although initially created for his FBI agent, the public can also monitor the artist’s communication records, banking transactions, and transportation logs along with various intelligence and government agencies who have been confirmed visiting his website.
This lecture is organized in conjunction with Distant Images, Local Positions. For more information, please email [email protected].
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