"See Something, Say Something: Strategies of Counter-Surveillance" Panel Discussion
The Kitchen
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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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Schedule
May 31, 2008 from 17:00