In the book, entitled The Crisis of Presence in
Contemporary Culture: Ethics, Privacy and Speech in Mediated Social Life, Dr Miller examines the relationship between the freedom provided by the contemporary online world and the control, surveillance and censorship that operate in this
Contemporary Culture: Ethics, Privacy and Speech in Mediated Social Life, Dr Miller examines the relationship between the freedom provided by the
contemporary online world and the control, surveillance and censorship that operate in this
contemporary online world and the control,
surveillance and censorship that operate in this environment.
Contemporary art and the transition to post-democracy, the occupation of time by the technologies and industries of
culture (art among them), to precarity of work, control,
surveillance and militarization are among the other key themes we find in her oeuvre.
From her early performances as the fictional Roberta Breitmore to her recent
surveillance installations, Leeson has focused on the role that technology, media and artifice play in
contemporary culture.