Surveillance and Society

Está no ar a nova edição da revista acadêmica de estudos de vigilância, Surveillance and Society, dedicada a Performance and New Media.
Além do meu paper sobre as experiências com as Composições para circuito de vídeo-vigilância, uma entrevista com a canadense Michelle Teran e um paper da arquiteta mineira Renata Marquez, entre outros, oferecem vasto material para pesquisa e reflexão sobre os cruzamentos possíveis entre estéticas da vigilância, videoarte, video instalação e ativismo.
Genial.

dossier

preparando candidaturas múltiplas, moldando a massa.

april

choreography for pedestrians, buildings and pigeons - 2 weeks workshop to prepare a choreography in real time in a public space. presented also as a live cinema performance, to be seen in a viewing area (can be a theatre, a gallery or a museum).

in colaboration with dani lima

octobre? novembre?

Task: organize something like a week workshop with local people and make our presentation as a collaboration with them, as a result of this workshop.
In our previous presentations in Brazil we worked with collaborators creating scenes and interacting with "real" passers.
It would be very rich to develop something together with local people.
In July I am going to give a 2 day workshop to dancers here in Rio, on the subject of using surveillance cameras to create dance spectacles.
I think I can test some ideas with them... It will be the first time I will work with people I do not know in advance.

Technically we have to do some tests on the best CFTV instalation. We'd like to work with microphones too.

police officer and filmmaker?

David Cole enviando mais uma vez links para matérias do Guardian sobre our surveillance society.

Esta agora é simplesmente delirante.
Nos brinda com um vídeo de alguns minutos do material gravado pelos próprios oficiais da policia inglesa encarregados de cruzar as imagens com os dados de ativistas e jornalistas presentes em uma manifestacão ambientalista.
As imagens do video são acompanhadas de comentários em off dos policiais, o que nos lembra Landscape Theory, sendo que no video dos policiais as imagens são sincrônicas ao som (a edição é do jornalista do guardian).
Na mesma medida nos lembra ainda as imagens de THX 1138, de George Lucas, quando dois operadores da prisão onde encontra-se o personagem de Robert Duvall discutem sobre como funciona o painel de controle, atuando diretamente sobre o corpo do detento, subjugado como uma marionete.


Em um momento os policiais e os cinegrafistas independentes cruzam o eixo de gravação, e neste momento não podemos deixar de pensar em Sophie Calle in Double Blind (No Sex Last Night).

Mais uma vez chamamos a atencão para as formas audiovisuais do cinema, do vídeo e da arte contemporânea, que nos oferecem um vocabulário e um exemplo de maneiras potentes de lidar com o fato político de portar uma câmera -
para além da transformação da imagem em (1) produto para consumo (midia) e (2) ferramenta de controle social (policia).

Call for Papers: Performance, New Media, and Surveillance

Duas dicas dadas em Curitiba por David Murakami Wood.
Uma para participar de um Seminário de Estudos da Vigilância no Canadá.
A outra é o call for papers da revista Surveillance and Society, reproduzido abaixo.
As duas estão tirando o meu sono.

Special Issue of Surveillance & Society, guest edited by John E. McGrath and Robert W. Sweeny.

The relationship between the visual arts and surveillance has been explored through large scale exhibitions (CTRL:Space, ZKM), and texts such as Loving Big Brother (McGrath, 2004) have introduced questions of performance and performativity into the surveillance debate. However, as the technological possibilities available to artists grow, and the social impact of surveillance is increasingly recognized, there is a need for a thorough examination of the uses of surveillance in the visual arts, particularly in the genres of new media and performance art, where issues regarding technological engagement and embodiment come to the fore. The editors of this special volume of Surveillance and Society are seeking papers that examine the complexities of surveillance in new media and performance art. We intent to acknowledge various issues including but not limited to:

• (Re)Examination of New Media and Performance Art through surveillance themes and theories.
• Modes of spectatorship and participation in New Media and Performance Art that are complicated through surveillance technologies.
• Examples from technological and live artistic practices that present novel forms of interaction and engagement
• Analysis of the gaze in its various forms (male, actuarial, scopic) as related to New Media and/or Performance Art.
• Discussions regarding visualities produced in the spaces of surveillance, including the visual culture of technologies that measure gait, map surveilled populations, and monitor public spaces.
• Examinations and articulations of surveillance space (including data space) through artistic practice
• Explorations of the performative nature or surveillance society and space
• Political, resistant and utopian currents in surveillance art practice

We are also open to related subjects not outlined above. Projects by artists working in new media would be of particular interest, particularly those that make use of the digital nature of Surveillance & Society. These might include media and methods such as hypertext, digital video, animation, videogames, and social/tactical/locative media.

Please contact the guest-editors in advance to discuss proposed topics. All papers must be completed and submitted electronically no later than March 31st, 2009. Please use standard formatting and submit the papers via the new automated system - see the instruction for authors - unless the submission is a multi-media piece, in which case contact the guest editors:

John E. McGrath or Robert W. Sweeny

erosão das liberdades

querido charlie cole dando a dica da grande conferência organizada em londres para debater sobre os rumos que as práticas de vigilância estão tomando na inglaterra.
os palestrantes da convention on modern liberty lançam a questão: de que formas a combinação entre bancos de dados com filtros cada vez mais finos, desenvolvimento biotecnológico e erosão de liberdades civis e individuais moldam o que chamam de um "police state" no reino unido.
a matéria do guardian é uma boa porta de entrada para entender o evento.

More than 1,500 people, paying £35 a ticket, attended the Convention on Modern Liberty in Bloomsbury, central London, which was linked by video to parallel events in Glasgow, Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Manchester, Cardiff and Cambridge. They heard from more than 80 speakers, including author Philip Pullman; musicians Brian Eno and Feargal Sharkey; journalists Fatima Bhutto, Andrew Gilligan, Nick Cohen and Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger; politicians Lord Bingham and Dominic Grieve; a former director of public prosecutions, Ken Macdonald; and human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy.

In her speech Kennedy said she felt that fear was being used as a weapon to break down civil liberties. "There is a general feeling that in creating a climate of fear people have been writing a blank cheque to government. People feel the fear of terrorism is being used to take away a lot of rights."