From Honor Harger at Tate Modern:

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:

SURVEILLANCE + CONTROL
AT TATE MODERN

A half-day conference in March

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/events.htm

TIMES AND DATES

1400 - 1830 [ GMT ]
1500 - 1930 [ Central European Time ]
0900 - 1330 [ US Eastern Standard Time ]
1930 - 0000 [ Indian / Culcutta Time ]
0100 - 0530 [ Australian Eastern Summer Time, 10 March]
0300 - 0730 [ New Zealand Summer Time, 10 March ]


LOCATION

Starr Auditorium, Level 2, Tate Modern, London, UK


INTRODUCTION

As part of Tate Modern's Interpretation and Education programme, a half day
conference on surveillance technologies and new media art will be take
place. SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL considers widespread uses of electronic
surveillance, analysing recent social and political developments, and asking
how various surveillance technologies have impacted on new media art
practice.

Tickets £10 (£5 concessions)

Bookings are now being accepted for this event.
To book tickets to attend, please ring Tate Ticketing on: 020 7887 8888 or
email <[log in to unmask]>.


ABOUT THE EVENT

We are living in a medialised society. Surveillance devices are used
increasingly to monitor physical space, while the operation of global
interception systems show the vulnerability of electronic space. The
increasing ubiquity of surveillance has radically transformed the relation
between public and private spheres, as well as the very nature of political
and technological control.

This half day conference will probe recent developments in surveillance
debates.  Investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell and media theorist, Eric
Kluitenberg look at issues such as the use of the English/American automated
interception and relay system, Echelon, and the controversial Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act (RIPa), which updates UK law on the
interception of
communications.
Presentations by artists, Marko Peljhan, Kate Rich and Julia Scher will ask
how artists are responding to, or subverting the surveillance strategies
employed by the commercial and governmental sectors.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

- Julia Scher, USA
Julia Scher is an artist, who's work focuses on the subjects surveillance
and cyber-sphere. Aiming at the exposure of dangers and ideologies of
monitoring systems, Scher creates temporary and transitory
web/installation/performance works that explore issues of power, control and
seduction. She has lectured at Harvard University, Princeton University and
Rutgers University.
Online data: interview: http://www.rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2772


- Marko Peljhan, Slovenia
Marko Peljhan is a media artist and founder of the organisation, Projekt
Atol, which runs Makrolab, an autonomous communications, research and living
unit. Makrolab has been shown at documentaX in Kassel in 1997, on Rottnest
Island-Wadjemup, Australia in 2000, and will be installed at Tramway in
Glasgow, Scotland  in 2002.
Online data: http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/


- Kate Rich, UK / Australia
Kate Rich is a video engineer for BIT (Bureau of Inverse Technology). BIT
develops data, tracking and visualisation devices for critical deployment,
such as the SUICIDE BOX vertical motion recorder, the BIT PLANE miniature
spyplane, and the BANG BANG camera network.
Online data: http://bureauit.org


- Duncan Campbell, UK
Scottish born Duncan Campbell is an investigative journalist, author,
consultant and television producer specialising in privacy, civil liberties
and secrecy issues. His best-known investigations have led to major legal
clashes with successive British governments. In 1988, he revealed the
existence of the ECHELON project, which has since 1997 become controversial
throughout the world and especially in Europe.
Online data: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan


Chair:
- Eric Kluitenberg, Netherlands
Eric Kluitenberg is a writer, theorist and organiser of culture and
technology events. He lives in Amsterdam and currently works for De Balie,
Centre for Culture and Politics, where in 2001 he organised The Society of
Control - a event showcasing artists' use of electronic observation
technologies.
Online data: De Balie: http://www.balie.nl


WEBCAST

This event will be presented live on the Tate website, as part of Tate's
Webcasting Programme. You can experience the event live online in audio and
video using the Real Player.
To find out more, visit:
<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/webcasting>.
If you haven't experienced Tate Modern's webcasts before, please visit our
technical help page:
<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/help.htm>.


MORE INFORMATION:
For more on this event, see:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/events.htm
or contact:
Honor Harger, Webcasting Curator, Interpretation & Education, Tate
Modern
Email: [log in to unmask]
PH: (44) 020 7401 5066

For more information about Tate or getting tickets for the event:
Tate Box Office
Email: [log in to unmask]
PH: (44) 020 7887 8888
URL: http://www.tate.org.uk