[spectre] Surveillance Awareness Bureau

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Surveillance Awareness Bureau


Zach Blas, James Bridle, Paolo Cirio, Simon Denny, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, 

Hemi
Macgregor, Ruben Pater, Terri Te Tau

 

27 May - 13 Jun 2015 

1 Grey St., Wellington, New Zealand

Wed - Fri 12-5pm, Sat 12-3pm

 

www.modelab.info


The Surveillance Awareness Bureau (SAB) intends to create
a space of critical engagement that grants visibility to systems that by nature
should remain invisible to individuals and at the same time provoke a highly
charged debate on privacy, liberty, control and abuse.

 

This pop-up office –located in a vacant retail space in
Wellington's CBD– features some of the alternatives that artists, designers,
scholars and journalists can propose to highlight the tension and risks between
seeing and not seeing the effects of technologies in our quotidian. It exalts
the vulnerability of humans in that constant non-illuminated space that is
control framed by unawareness.

 

Not a single day passes without news of trust breaches
and information misuse of data in all levels, from the common individual to
states and international organizations. But while certain technologies can be
considered even as predators for privacy, there is already counterarguments
that choose the same technologies and deploy them as tool of resistance or as a
crucial democratic element that can link individuals with the wider social and
political environment they live in.

 

The Surveillance Awareness Bureau will provide the
audience with on-site bibliographical resources and other media on the subject
of state and commercial vigilance. Also, panels on mass surveillance and civil
liberties in the digital age. A workshop on enhancing privacy tools will be
held to draw attention to the multiple ambiguous forms of surveillance that
could be positioned along a spectrum from 'care' to 'control'.

 

 

 		 	   		  
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