Sentences with phrase «of surveillance culture»

An LA - born installation and performance artist working with the early web, Scher's practice often concerns themes of surveillance culture in online works such as Securityland and Wonderland.
Making the jump from mobile to consoles is Camouflaj's exploration of surveillance culture, Republique, which is now available for the PS4.

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But if anything good can be said to have come from these events, it's the elevated level of awareness and (mostly) constructive dialogue about serious issues like mental health, militarism, surveillance, and rape culture.
In light of the Facebook data scandal more people are beginning to challenge the web's pervasive surveillance culture.
If any of us ever had illusions that a reformist posture was sufficient, either from a theological perspective or as social policy, the intractability of governmental and economic systems, the growth of massive and seemingly uncontrollable systems of surveillance, military power, and mass culture increasingly narrow the scope of our options to those of resistance and withdrawal.
But they were being hampered from doing so because of the impact of workload and the monitoring and surveillance culture in schools which was also damaging teachers mental health.
And in investigating the cover - up, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found not only a blue wall of silence, but also a nasty departmental culture, typified by retribution and surveillance, with Mr. Burke at its center.
They reviewed more than 500 randomly selected isolates of MRSA from surveillance cultures to determine drug resistance.
protected animals»); studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance, epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of human volunteers).
During the research Andrey Lavrov and Igor Kosevich experimented with cultures of the sponges «cells under a laboratory surveillance.
Exposed, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on display through April 17, 2011, examines how voyeurism pervades our everyday life, focusing particular attention on 19th - and 20th - century photography, celebrity culture and the growth of new surveillance technologies.
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 environment.
Cornerstones of the Antibiotic Stewardship Program are the surveillance of antimicrobial use and bacterial resistance, our consultation service, active surveillance of blood cultures, teaching and education and the publication of antibiotic treatment guidelines.
It's entirely plausible that MGS5 was compromised by Kojima's acrimonious departure from Konami, but MGS5's ambiguity feels like a fitting conclusion for a series that raised weighty, human, questions — about surveillance society, the nature of self and digital culture — a decade ahead of time.
But it's packed with enough anxieties about government surveillance and the steamrolling growth of digital culture to fill a skyscraper.
Instead, they indicate that to capitalize on the potential of new networked form of polycentric governance, further work must be done on the political and legislative framing of school inspections to transform their current cultures of surveillance and control towards greater learning and experimentation.
I Am No One is itself profoundly observant about the post-Snowden culture of surveillance, and the insights of this unsettling novel are ignored at our own peril.»
- The Spectator (UK) «A masterful plot, a terrifying subject, and a gripping read... Patrick Flanery's topical, multi-layered novel probes the ubiquitous culture of surveillance today and its potential ramifications for a democratic society.»
We discuss, among other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft; art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills; art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.
Paglen, who made his name chronicling the culture of mass surveillance, has won for his project The Octopus, which addresses topical subjects including drone warfare.
Examining the regimes of control to which the human body is increasingly subjected — ranging from governmental and corporate surveillance to the relentless pursuit of youth — Kline addresses the erosion of boundaries between labor and leisure and the incursion of consumer culture into the most literally intimate aspects of life: blood, DNA, neurochemistry.
Representative examples from these projects are joined in this exhibition by Conrad's last sculptures and installations, which evoked and critiqued what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control, and containment.
Convening luminary artists, curators, researchers, and writers to discuss how technology is transforming culture, the first edition of Open Score will consider how artists are responding to new conditions of surveillance and hypervisibility; how social media's mass creativity interfaces with branding and identity for individual artists; how the quality and texture of art criticism is evolving in a digital age; and what the future of internet art might be in light of a broader assimilation of digital technologies.
Jon Rafman immerses viewers in environments where gaming landscapes and physical reality fuse as dark, hypnotizing hybrids; Yves Scherer probes celebrity culture and popular media in works that toe the line between critique, satire, and celebration; and Simon Denny examines surveillance and digital subcultures by plumbing the depths of images, information, and communication stored on the internet.
Online and offline surveillance accompanied by the consumer capitalist culture within today's society are the main issues surrounding his work, in association with current and future utopian environments, the continued automation of our daily lives in relation to the internet of things and the various cultures associated with online communities.
Titled Room Sensed Motion, it stresses the illusion of order that surveillance culture brings — in this instance in the form of cameras and motion sensors in a family home, a narrative echoed in the piece Hello!
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.
Ranging from landscape shots to super-sized closeups, the work, presented by London gallery Carroll Fletcher, encapsulates the uncomfortable intersection of the surveillance state with selfie culture.
Similarly drawing from pervasive surveillance culture, Ry David Bradley uses online databases of constantly streaming security cameras to create surreal image portals which toy with our perception.
The gallery has put together a large - scale survey of the L.A. - based artist's video work that draws from the culture of surveillance and the internet.
«As organic printing and DNA manipulation reshapes the identities of newly manipulated organisms, so too the culture of absorbed surveillance has dynamically shifted.
Astro Noise sees her reconsidering the moving image toward other ways of addressing and engaging an audience, presenting the culture and mechanisms of surveillance and the war on terror in a very different way, through structured visual experiences that provide much more than information and compel an audience to enter into a visceral experience.»
The «passive - aggressive» performance both mocks and iconises the consumer gaze of teen - girldom, inspired by the culture of surveillance today's teens are growing up with, as well as everything from Hello Kitty and Apple products to Miley Cyrus tongue lashing.
As we delve deeper into technology, a culture of images, violence, and surveillance, how do we locate presence inside of the grid?
Although the product of an artist known for her extensive use of personal investigation, Unfinished grew out of automated surveillance tapes, and it was completed as the culture of the post-9 / 11 national security state took shape.
Public, Private, Secret does lay out both the negative impacts of celebrity culture, surveillance, porn, voyeurism, social media, et al. upon both our sense of personal privacy and our image - making habits but it is also about the agency of «being seen» and the social impact of widespread self - representation and alterity.
Piercing lights refer to our surveillance culture and the installation incorporates gargantuan animal sculptures including a 65ft flamingo — a copy of a work by Alexander Calder — and a replica of a spider by Louise Bourgeois that stood outside the gallery last year.
«Who Knows» speaks both to the context of 21st century surveillance (from the Snowden revelations to the ubiquity of CCTV cameras in urban space) as well to the cultures of gossip, scandal seeking, phone hacking and to the playful and flirtatious eye that people keep on each other through social media.
Considering recent revelations, I am compelled to acknowledge that — all of my reasonable complaints about both the surveillance state and the culture of surveillance notwithstanding — I have maintained a relationship with a company that exists primarily to spy on me.
This writer, finally fed up with the culture of surveillance (of which Facebook is major part), did so last week.
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