[spectre] (fwd) Evil to the Core | New Exhibition at the Digital Art Lab

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: Evil to the Core | New Exhibition at the Digital Art Lab
From: "The Israeli Center for Digital Art" <info at digitalartlab.org.il>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:49:01 +0200

October events


Evil to the Core


A New Project from the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
03.11.2009 - 16.01.2010

Opening on 31.10.2009 @ 20:00
16 Yirmiyahu Street | 03-556-8792 | 
<http://www.digitalartlab.org.il>www.digitalartlab.org.il

This exceptional project follows some of the key experiments that 
were conducted in the field of social psychology between 1961 to 
1971, which deal with obedience to authority, individual 
responsibility and social responsibility. 

In the exhibition are a mix of art works and Israeli and 
international documentary films dealing with socialization, 
obedience, power, authority, and resistance, and by way of which 
arises another commonality - three fundamental methodologies: 
simulation, experiment, and reenactment. The points of entry in the 
research leading up to the exhibition are the experiments in social 
psychology of the 1960s and 70s in the United States: Stanley 
Milgram's "Obedience" experiment and Philip Zimbardo's "Stanford 
Prison Experiment," both investigated the measure of obedience to 
authority in cases where participants were instructed to implement 
actions contrary to their principles and conscience.  These same 
provocative experiments are still taught today in the field of 
psychology.

The exhibition wishes to raise questions on obedience, disobedience, 
conformism and social responsibility by way of the works and films 
exhibited therein.

Participating artists: Rod Dickinson, Artur Zmijewski, David 
Tartakover, David Reeb, Amir Yatziv, and Noam Gelbart

Screening Program:
52/50, Uri Bar-On
Enraged, Eyal Itskovits
To See If I'm Smiling, Tamar Yarom
Machsomim, Yoav Shamir
Z32, Avi Mograbi

Films in the Exhibition:
Eye of the Storm, ABC News
Total Isolation, BBC Horizon
The Human Behavior Experiment, Jigsaw Productions
Obedience, Stanley Milgram Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo

Curators: Ran Kasmy Ilan and Galit Eilat

The exhibition is a collaboration with the 
<http://www.acri.org.il/eng/>Association for Civil Rights in Israel 
and their Program for International Humanitarian Law

Rod Dickinson's participation supported by 
<http://www.britishcouncil.org/israel-arts-culture-bi-arts.htm>BI 
ARTS (British Israeli arts training scheme), an initiative of the 
British Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs