Seminar

Surveillance has become widely accepted as a prevalent feature of our contemporary worlds—whether public or private, in physical spaces as well as online—while perpetuating racial and class-based discriminatory practices. How have theorists and artists challenged these imposed protocols, engaging in what scholar Simone Browne has called “troubling surveillance,” to address the spillover of military drones into civilian lives? Convened with Fabiola Hanna, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media at The New School, this panel presents theories and artistic practices of resistance that reclaim, challenge, and queer technologies of surveillance, and includes artist and New School faculty member American Artist, Purchase College Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology Shaka McGlotten, UC Davis Professor of Theatre and performer Margaret Laurena Kemp, and new media artist Abram Stern (aphid).

Participants
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American Artist, artist, Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Margaret Laurena Kemp, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance, University of California, Davis
Shaka McGlotten, Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology, Purchase College-SUNY
Abram Stern, new media artist and scholar
Convened with Fabiola Hanna, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media, The New School

This seminar is supported by the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy fund.

As for Protocols Seminar Series
Led by The New School and Vera List Center faculty and staff, each monthly seminar in this year-long series will examine a particular aspect of protocols, among them those relating to language and communication; protocols for equitable networks, computer interfaces, and algorithms; global health and development; data aggregation and narrative systems; culturally-specific community agreements; or protocols undergirding scientific research. Building on the conversations started in previous sessions, each seminar is centered by an art project and accompanied by readings.

The Spring 2021 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, individual donors as well as the following institutional funders:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Boris Lurie Art Foundation
Dayton Foundation
Ford Foundation
Kettering Fund
Pryor Cashman LLP
Sigrid Rausing Trust
and
The New School