Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: An Art Exhibition

Exhibition | 2011

Mounted as a partnered project between InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, and the international workshop The New Transparency: Surveillance & Social Sorting at the University of Toronto. | InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, ON.

From the exhibition’s publicity release: “Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life is organized in conjunction with the international workshop of the same name, taking place at the University of Toronto from 12-15 May 2011. The exhibition explores a number of the workshop’s central themes, such as the intersections between surveillance and social networking, identity and anonymity, and monitoring techniques. The five works brought together in Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life address the ubiquitous and distributed nature of surveillance.”

Artists and artworks:

• David Bouchard, Bruno Lessard, and Pierre Tremblay, Meta Incognita – variations estivales, time-lapse video and soundtrack.
• Derek Dunlop, A Lover’s Geography, photographs.
• Kristen Atkins, Portrayal Portal, installation with laptop and data projection.
• Jon Rafman, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, screen captures of Google Street View.
• Tomer Diamant and Mathew Hannam, Comment/Like – Code of Quick Response, installation.

 

Arnold Koroshegyi, Rupture, 2009. Installation photograph of the piece in the group exhibition “Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control,” Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON. Image courtesy of the artist. © Arnold Koroshegyi.

Arnold Koroshegyi

Artist

Database works: Arnold Koroshegyi, Rupture, 2009. 6-minute looped DVD video. In the group exhibition “Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control,” Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON.

Koroshegyi addresses the shifting concepts of place within geopolitical landscapes through his works in a variety of art media, including photography, installation, and intermedia. Based in Toronto, Koroshegyi teaches studio practices and art history at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, and the University of Toronto, Mississauga. His art has been exhibited throughout North America.

Website:

http://www.arnoldkoroshegyi.com/

Antonia Hirsch, the invisible hand (after Adam Smith), 2009. Detail, 360-degree surveillance mirrors, fasteners. W 1047cm x H 511cm x D 11.5cm. Photograph by Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist. © Antonia Hirsch.

Antonia Hirsch

Artist

Database works: Hirsch, Antonia, 2008. Double Blind. Installation, mirrored acrylic domes. W 4.5m x H13.7m x D .5m. // Hirsch, Antonia, 2009. The Invisible Hand (after Adam Smith). 360-degree surveillance mirrors, fasteners. W 1047cm x H 511cm x D 11.5cm.

Hirsch is a Berlin-based writer, artist, and editor, who has exhibited and published her work widely throughout North America and Europe.

Website:

http://antoniahirsch.com/

Kathleen Ritter, Interloper, 2005. 4-channel video installation with sound, 100 performance scripts, photographs, map, map pins, cork board. Image courtesy of the artist. © Kathleen Ritter

Kathleen Ritter

Artist

Database works: Kathleen Ritter, Interloper, 2005. 4-channel video installation with sound, 100 performance scripts, photographs, map, map pins, cork board // Kathleen Ritter, Hidden Camera, 2008. Pigment inkjet print. 122 x 91. 5 cm. In multiple exhibitions, including “Wide Open” at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Hamilton, ON, 2008, and “Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control,” Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, 2009.

Ritter is an artist and curator based in Vancouver and Paris. Her art practice often addresses the broad intersections of visibility with systems of power and technology. From 2007 to 2012, Ritter was Associate Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery where she organized a number of exhibitions, including How Soon Is Now; Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (with Tania Willard); and Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion (with Daina Augaitis).

Website:

http://kathleenritter.com/

Melanie Lowe, You Saw Me?, 2008. New media database projection. Image courtesy of the artist. © Melanie Lowe.

Melanie Lowe

Artist

Database works: Melanie Lowe, You Saw Me?, 2008. New media database projection. In the exhibition, “Cake on the Icing,” curated by Shaun Dacey, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.

Originally from Halifax, Lowe is a video and digital artist currently based in Toronto. Lowe earned a Bachelor of Design in Communication Design from NSCAD University, and a Master of Arts in Visual Art from York University. In her work, Lowe often questions the everyday actions and interactions between the self and others in contemporary life.

Website:

http://melanielowe.tumblr.com/