[rohrpost] Screening: The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Boundaoui, May 5, 7:30pm

Sa Apr 29 18:06:29 CEST 2023

dear list, 
sorry for beeing maybe too cryptic.

but for those who might not have heard about this - there is a big media art show running in leipzig at this moment - https://www.dimensions-digital-art.de/ 
50 artists, some iconic works i was looking forward seeing again until i learned, that the main sponsor of this show is PALANTIR - one of the most frightening big data companies in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

for me it’s kind of alarming, that nobody really seems to care that weapon industry (and thats what it is) is funding art shows. did the artists know beforehand?
there was some press (see below) but it seems there is no real discussion. (at least i’m not aware of.)

Palentir sponsert Schau zur digitalen Kunst  (faz 21.4.23)
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/walter-smerling-eroeffnet-digitalschau-dimensions-18835926.html?GEPC=s30

Liebe Kunst, erlöse uns (zeit 21.4.23)
https://www.zeit.de/2023/17/ausstellung-dimensions-leipzig-palantir-sponsor

Der Untergang der Kunst (Kreuzer 22.4.23)
https://kreuzer-leipzig.de/2023/04/22/der-untergang-der-kunst

Walter Smerling plant neue Ausstellung (süddeutsche 1.3.23)
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/walter-smerling-leipzig-digitalkunst-palantir-1.5760664

Daten als neue Munition (taz 9.3.23)
https://taz.de/Ukraine-nutzt-KI-von-Palantir/!5917538&s=palantir/

How the algorithm tipped the balance in Ukraine (washington post 19.12.22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/19/palantir-algorithm-data-ukraine-war/

Palantir wirbt mit KI-Plattform zur Kriegsführung (heise 28.4.23)
https://www.heise.de/news/Palantir-wirbt-mit-KI-Plattform-zur-Kriegsfuehrung-8981871.html

have a nice weekend, c.

> Am 28.04.2023 um 19:43 schrieb Carsten Stabenow <carsten at garage-g.de>:
> 
> dear tatiana and all,
> 
> speaking of ‚beeing watched' what is happening in leipzig???
> https://www.dimensions-digital-art.de/ …
> 
> there was a time when something like this would have caused some reaction on this list.
> 
> best, carsten
> 
> 
>> [rohrpost] Screening: The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Boundaoui, May 5, 7:30pm
>> 
>> Tatiana Bazzichelli tbazz at disruptiv.biz  <mailto:rohrpost%40coredump.buug.de?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Brohrpost%5D%20Screening%3A%20The%20Feeling%20of%20Being%20Watched%20by%20Assia%0A%20Boundaoui%2C%20May%205%2C%207%3A30pm&In-Reply-To=%3Cbde54349-ff9b-7267-67e9-e222b2efe556%40disruptiv.biz%3E>
>> Do Apr 27 18:06:46 CEST 2023
>> Nachrichten sortiert nach: [ Datum ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/date.html#18155> [ Thema ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/thread.html#18155> [ Betreff (Subject) ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/subject.html#18155> [ Autor ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/author.html#18155>
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> following our 29th conference "Smart Prison: Tracking, Monitoring &
>> Control", we invite you to join us on May 5 at 7.30 pm for the screening
>> of "The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui, at ACUD MACHT NEU
>> in Berlin.
>> 
>> “The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui explores the impact of
>> surveillance on Muslim-American communities in the wake of the War on
>> Terror, and raises important questions about privacy, security, and
>> civil liberties.
>> 
>> In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director
>> Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been
>> under surveillance for over a  decade. While investigating their
>> experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents
>> that prove her hometown was the  subject of one of the largest
>> counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11,
>> code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The
>> Feeling of Being Watched  weaves the personal and the political as it
>> follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under
>> blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the
>> government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal
>> court to compel them to make the records they collected about her
>> community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about
>> the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched
>> follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while
>> grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and
>> her family.
>> 
>> AFTER THE SCREENING, we invite you to network over drinks at ACUD MACHT
>> NEU, in Berlin-Mitte. This will be an opportunity to connect with others
>> who are interested in the intersection of technology and criminal
>> justice reform, and to share your own insights and perspectives.
>> 
>> Please register here (5 Euro ticket):
>> https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/smartprisons-meetup/
>> 
>> More info:
>> https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/meet-up-screening-of-the-feeling-of-being-watched
>> 
>> Official website:
>> http://www.feelingofbeingwatched.com/
>> 
>> See you there,
>> 
>> Tatiana
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
>> Disruption Network Lab
>> http://disruptionlab.org <http://disruptionlab.org/>
>> E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
>> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
>> Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0
>> Nachrichten sortiert nach: [ Datum ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/date.html#18155> [ Thema ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/thread.html#18155> [ Betreff (Subject)] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/subject.html#18155> [ Autor ] <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/2023-April/author.html#18155>
>> Mehr Informationen über die Mailingliste rohrpost <http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost>
> -- 
> rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze
> Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/
> Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/