Dr. Susan Cahill is organizing and moderating a double-conference session, entitled The Art of Surveillance, parts I and II. The sessions are scheduled at 11am-12.30pm and 2.00-3.30pm on 07 November 2015 as part of the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, and include seven scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners who will examine art and cultural objects in relation to the past and present history of surveillant viewing and its pervasive use in illicit, and often explicit, looking.
The Art of Surveillance I Session Chair / Présidente de séance : Susan Cahill, University of Calgary
1. Donna Szoke, Brock University, “And all watched over by machines of loving grace”
2. Stéphanie McKnight, artist and MA candidate, Queen’s University, “Hawk Eye View: Shifting the ‘Surveillant’ Gaze”
3. Paula Gardner, McMaster University, “Biometric Tools: Aestheticizing Biodata, and Surveillent Problematics”
The Art of Surveillance II Session Chair / Présidente de séance : Susan Cahill, University of Calgary
1. Cody Lang, PhD candidate, York University, “Surveillance in Brian De Palma’s Cinema”
2. Carmen Victor, PhD candidate, York University and Ryerson University, “Temporal Dialogues and Outmoded Architectures of War”
3. Sophie Lynch, PhD candidate, McGill University, “Pixelated Camouflage and Poor Images: Abstraction and Dematerialization in the Work of Hito Steyerl”
4. Jayne Wilkinson, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, “Interrogating Practices: Artist-Journalists and Surveillance Culture”
More information about these papers and the conference is available at:http://www.uaac-aauc.com/sites/default/files/UAAC-AAUC%202015%20Conference%20Schedule%20Horaire%20congr%C3%A8s%20Final.pdf
