Untitled from The New Town, 2013, Andrew Hammerand
Mass surveillance may be as insidious and persistent as white noise, and the current cultural conditions have conspired to lull us into the hum. However, at the core we intuit that being part of any act of observation, whether observing or being observed, somehow changes us. And depending on the nature of the observation, the effects can be profound. The act of survey has the potential for connection building; the act of surveillance that of intrusion. Yet through each process we wonder: Who is framing our information? Who is telling the story? And to what end?
Guide the conversation: Take the privacy questionnaire
CURATED BY:
Arlinda Shtuni
EXHIBITION DATES:
June 26–July 25, 2015
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, June 26, 2015 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Live Concert with selections from the NSA Listening Party album; 8:00 pm -10:00 pm
Featuring: Charity Case, Hollands, Dave Lippman and others
PRIVACY SALON:
Friday, July 10; 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
With readings from Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics
Featuring: Andrew Ridker (editor), Dan Chelotti and Stephen Burt
GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday-Friday, 6:00-8:00 pm
Saturday, 2:00-6:00 pm
ARTISTS:
Nataliya Bregel, Adina Bricklin, Gary Duehr, Julia Dunham, Hasan Elahi, Karen Eliot, Andrew Hammerand, Jonathan McFadden, Simon Menner, Anders Midtgaard, Ted Ollier, Carlos Rene Pacheco, Larry Poole, Scott Patrick Wiener, Amanda Wild
