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<p><b><u>SURVEYING
SURVEILLANCE:</u></b></p>
<p><b>What and whom is
surveillance for?</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Sunday 26<sup>th</sup>
October, The Vortex, <span>3 Bradbury Street,
Dalston, London N16 8JN</span></b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>11.00<span> </span>"SeeCTV – Watching the Watchers" – local
street activism & documentation workshop</b></p>
<p><b>14.00<span> </span>"Surveying Surveillance" Symposium</b></p>
<p><b>16.00<span> </span>Workshop conclusion<span> </span></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>1 This Sunday October 26<sup>th</sup> at 2pm, Alex Haw
(atmos) will be chairing a major multidisciplinary discussion between various surveillance
experts interrogating the purpose and spatial significance of surveillance
technologies.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>2 The Symposium will be preceded by a workshop at 11am exploring
and documenting Dalston's neighbourhood surveillance</p>
<p> </p>
<p>3 The overall Festival launch is this Thursday, 7pm; all
welcome</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>_______</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>1 SYMPOSIUM</b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Forms of surveillance are all around us, radically
transforming our experiences of cities and spaces. Our attitudes to them are
ambiguous and conflicted: we decry privacy intrusions but demand yet more CCTV
cameras; our daily news is riddled with stories of disastrous data losses, yet
dataveillance and surveillance are rapidly growing industries, increasingly
explored by writers and artists, increasingly ubiquitous as forms of televisual
entertainment.<span> </span></p>
<p>Our needs mingle with both our fears and our desires.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This symposium, convened by Alex Haw (atmos) as part of the
TINAG annual conference, gathers a number of experts from the various corners
of the surveillance debate to confront and discuss issues concerning the
purpose, ethics, effectiveness, spatiality, and finally the fantasies and
dystopias of surveillance. Juvenal's oft quoted surveillance adage 'Quis
Custodes Ipsos Custodiet' will prompt another Latin question: Cui Bono? Our
main question is simply – what is surveillance for? Does it promote peace and
justice, or encourage fear and anxiety? Does it benefit a private or privileged
elite, or serve a much wider humanity? Is it there to be obeyed, or subverted?
Which is its main constituency – the people, the politician, the policeman, the
artist, the street performer, the service provider or CCTV operative? Each
speaker will give a brief presentation of their work and research in the field
before a wider panel discussion. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Symposium starts at 2pm sharp, The Vortex, <span>3 Bradbury Street, Dalston N16 8JN</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Peter Fry</b></p>
<p>Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer, first introducing
public area CCTV surveillance systems into the 5 towns of the Local Authority
in the UK, of which he was Director of Operations. He has advised numerous
Local Authorities and Police Forces on the management, operation and strategic
development of their CCTV systems In 2000 he became director of the CCTV User
Group, which develops standards for the operation of systems, and promulgates
best practice; it's membership now approaches 500 organisation representing
most of the Local Authorities and Police Forces throughout the UK, as well as
universities, hospitals, retail, commercial and transport systems.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cctvusergroup.com/" target="_blank">www.cctvusergroup.com</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><span>Nic Groombridge</span></b></p>
<p><span>Nic is a senior
lecturer at </span><a href="http://www.smuc.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span>St Mary's University College</span></a><span>, Twickenham. He lectures in both
media arts and sociology/criminology. His particular interests are the margins
of criminology. He has published on CCTV, sexuality and criminology and
car crime (the subject of his PhD) and contributed sections on sexuality, queer
theory, normalisation and pathology to the </span><a href="http://www.sagepub.co.uk/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book227942" target="_blank"><span>Sage Dictionary of
Criminology</span></a><span>. He sits on the
Editorial Advisory Board of the </span><a href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0265-5527&site=1" target="_blank"><span>Howard Journal of
Criminal Justice</span></a><span> and the
British Sociological Association's newsletter, </span><a href="http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network.htm" target="_blank"><span>Network</span></a><span>.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.criminologyinpublic.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.criminologyinpublic.com/index.html</a><span></span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><b><span>Alex Haw</span></b></p>
<p>Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the
intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs <i>atmos</i>, a collaborative experimental
practice which produces a range of architecture and events including private
houses, installations and larger public art commissions. Much of <i>atmos'</i> work focuses on the role of
surveillance and dataveillance in shaping space, whether illuminating Canary
Wharf with real-time solar data, immersing visitors into live spatial
fluctuations of the Frankfurt stock exchange, building camera frameworks for
dancing to CCTV, or transforming the tracked movement of everyone within a
university into light. Alex has run design studios at the Architectural
Association, Cambridge University and TU Vienna.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atmosstudio.com/" target="_blank">www.atmosstudio.com</a><span></span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><b><span>Manu Luksch</span></b></p>
<p>Throughout her films, telematic performances and
interdisciplinary works, Manu Luksch is consistently preoccupied with the
effect of emerging technologies on daily life, social relations and political
structures. Luksch¹s recent project, science-fiction fairy tale Faceless, uses
authentic CCTV footage, which she recovered under the UK¹s Data Protection Act
following her ŒManifesto for CCTV filmmakers. Luksch has exhibited her work at
venues and festivals internationally, including "Hors Piste" (Centre
Pompidou, Paris 2008), "Goodbye Privacy" (Ars Electronica, Linz
2007), "Connecting Worlds" (NTT ICC, Tokyo 2006), "Satellite of
Love" (Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006). She served as artistic director of
the Munich Media Lab from 1995 to 1997, co-founded Art Servers Unlimited in
1998, and, in 1999, founded <i>Ambient
Information Systems</i>.<span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ambienttv.net/content/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.ambienttv.net/content/index.php</a><span></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Paul Mackie</b></p>
<p>Paul Mackie is a founder member and Compliance Director of
Camerawatch, the not-for-profit organisation which supports
organisations to ensure that their CCTV systems are operated in compliance
with the Data Protection Act. As Managing Director of Compliance Solutions
and Compliance Consultant with UK leading CCTV compliance company DATpro
Ltd, he helps public and private business sectors to identify and rectify
non-compliance of their CCTV systems. He has over 30 years experience
working with both National Government and major international blue-chip
organisations, specialising in compliance, management and legalisation of
industry software within the IT industry.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.camerawatch.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.camerawatch.org.uk</a></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Mark Simpkins</b><br>
Mark Simpkins is an online activist and artist, who is the co-founder of
geeKyoto (<a href="http://www.geekyoto.com/" target="_blank">http://www.geekyoto.com</a>)
and also the founder of 'This Is Our Algorithm'. He has worked on civic
software projects such as <a href="http://www.consultationprocess.org/" target="_blank">www.ConsultationProcess.org</a>
which started the craze to make government documents open and annotatable. He
also worked with some other <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/" target="_blank">www.MySociety.org</a>
volunteers to build both <a href="http://www.ivotedforyoubecause.com/" target="_blank">www.IVotedForYouBecause.com</a></p>
<p>and <a href="http://www.theywanttobeelected.com/" target="_blank">www.TheyWantToBeElected.com</a>
for the 2005 UK General Elections. He runs a small consultancy, NodalResearch,
on the use of online tools for social and civic software solutions and has been
technical consultant for the Design Against Crime Research Centre based at
Central St. Martins in London. He is also a Senior Technical Project Manager at
the BBC and blogs intermittently at <a href="http://nodalpoints.vox.com/" target="_blank">http://nodalpoints.vox.com/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>2 WORKSHOP</b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The "Surveying Surveillance" symposium will be accompanied
by a workshop led by Alex Haw (atmos) & Manu Luksch (ambientTV) involving local
collective CCTV activism and research, as attendees not only scour the local
streets for the presence of local CCTV, but also attempt to physically
confront, wherever possible, the invisible watchmen behind the lenses, to image
their control rooms, and to document the ensuing conversation. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>The aim of the workshop will be to document the social and
spatial defence of CCTV networks, to verify the relative legality of existing
systems, and to compile information on the ways CCTV owners and operatives
articulate and defend their behaviour. The documentation will seek evidence on
the slippage between legality and operation, and the blurriness of CCTV
practice.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Participants are asked to bring as many video and
sound-recording documentation devices as possible.</p>
<p>Places are limited; please pre-register via email to <a href="mailto:mail@atmosstudio.com" target="_blank">mail@atmosstudio.com</a></p>
<p>Workshop starts at 11am sharp, The Vortex, <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">3
Bradbury Street, Dalston N16 8JN</span></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>3 LAUNCH PARTY</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p>Festival Launch, all welcome: 7pm Thursday 23rd October,
Cafe Oto</p>
<p>The launch is free and open to all - a chance to meet other
participants & festival-goers, hear some music (open music archive and
dubmode) and see some of the exhibitions in the festival. Space is limited;
please register: <a href="mailto:coordinators@thisisnotagateway.net" target="_blank">coordinators@thisisnotagateway.net</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>This Is Not A Gateway Festival is a free three-day event in
Dalston, London that is forging new ways of investigating cities. Emerging
European practitioners from the fields of film, photography, literature,
critical theory, performance, architecture and planning come together to reveal
knowledge about cities 'from the ground up'. The three-day festival comprises
over 40 separate events including discussions, film screenings, workshops,
symposiums, exhibitions and walks. The programme includes work from 96
compelling emerging urbanists from across Europe. All events are open to the
public. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>The overall festival programme can be downloaded as a pdf at
<a href="http://www.thisisnotagateway.net/" target="_blank">http://www.thisisnotagateway.net/</a>
</p>
<p>The general Festival will be centred around <a href="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/" title="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cafe Oto</a> , 18 - 22 Ashwin street,
Dalston, London E8 3DL,</p>
<p>Thursday 23rd - Sunday 26th October 2008 : <a href="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.cafeoto.co.uk</a></p>
<p>The Festival was briefly profiled in last week's Guardian : </p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/18/art-londonlistings" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/18/art-londonlistings</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>This Is Not A Gateway</b>
{TINAG} was founded to address four urgent concerns: the need for accessible
arenas for emerging practioners across Europe, who work in and on cities; the
need for the development of new forms of urban citizenship; the desire for
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange; and the need to gather together,
in a self-organised, informal and fruitful context.</p>
<p><br>
TINAG creates platforms for academics, activists, human rights canvassers,
artists, politicians, writers, musicians, architects and more, whose point of
departure is the city. TINAG is interested in building platforms for those
outside of established circuits including illegal immigrants, travelers and
people living in cities of past or continuing conflict. There is no doubt the
most compelling new ideas and knowledge on cities is here.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield : This Is Not A Gateway<br>
Tel: + 44 (0)7791 950 604<br>
<a href="mailto:coordinators@thisisnotagateway.net" target="_blank">coordinators@thisisnotagateway.net</a><br>
<a href="http://www.thisisnotagateway.net/" target="_blank">www.thisisnotagateway.net</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>____________</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>FYI</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Alex Haw will be talking at the KISSS (<b>Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression</b>) Seminar
at the Castlefield Gallery in Manchester on Saturday the 1st November, 2-5pm.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Chaired by Julianne Pierce the KISSS Seminar will bring
together artists, activists and academics to</p>
<p>discuss how people experience, negotiate, resist, comply
with, and/or enjoy surveillance in their everyday</p>
<p>life and the translation of these effects into art practice.
Key speakers: Alex Haw, John E McGrath and Pam Skelton; Camilla Brueton, Joanna
Callaghan, Deej Fabyc and Paula Roush will also be present.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Artists showing in the accompanying KISSS video screening
programme:</p>
<p>Carlos Amorales (MEX/NLD), Oreet Ashery (ISR/UK), Jenna
Collins & Jane Brake (UK), Maxine Hall</p>
<p>(UK), Claudia del Fierro (CHL), Coco Fusco (US), Jill Magid
(US), Melanie Manchot (DEU/UK), Emma</p>
<p>Wolukau-Wanambwa (UK).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Artists featured in the KISSS archive (including Symposium
panellist Manu Luksch):</p>
<p>Ambient TV (UK), Anne Bean (ZMB/UK), Blast Theory (UK),
Camilla Brueton (UK), Season Butler (US),</p>
<p>Joanna Callaghan (UK/AUS), Dolores Sanchez Calvo (ESP),
Alexandra Dementieva (RUS), Deej Fabyc</p>
<p>(UK/AUS), Coco Fusco (US), Karen Gaskill (UK), Gilbert &
Grape (UK), Maxine Hall (UK), Louise Janvier</p>
<p>(UK), Calumn F. Kerr (UK), Maria Kheirkhah (IRN), Manu
Luksch (AUT), Ilze Black (LVA), Reinhard Krehl,</p>
<p>Silke Steets and Jan Wenzel (AUT), Laboratory of
Insurrectionary Imagination (UK), Sanne Mestrom</p>
<p>(AUS), Tracey Moberly (UK), Paula Moss (UK), Deborah Ostrow
(AUS), Psychological Art Circus (UK),</p>
<p>Suzana Rezende (PRT), Eva Rudlinger (UK), Paula Roush
(UK/PRT), Paul Sermon (UK), Nina Sobell</p>
<p>(US), Isa Suarez (FRA/UK), Mike Stubbs (UK), Hannah Terry
(UK), The Vacuum Cleaner (UK), Dan</p>
<p>Williamson (UK), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (UK).</p>
<p>Carlos Amorales courtesy of the Artist & Yvon Lambert
Paris & NewYork</p>
<p>Melanie Manchot courtesy of the Artist & Fred London</p>
<p>Mike Stubbs – Cultural Quarter (2003) is produced by Forma,
<a href="http://www.forma.org.uk" target="_blank">www.forma.org.uk</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>3 October to 16 November 2008, Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt
Street, Manchester, M15 4GB</p>
<p>Tel: +44 (0)161 832 8034 </p>
<p><a href="http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.kisss.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.kisss.org.uk</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>____________</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Documentation of LightHive –a work of luminous architectural
surveillance –by Alex Haw (atmos) is currently on show in the ground floor
exhibition space at <b>ARUP</b>, 13 Fitzroy
Street, London W1T 4BQ</p>
<p>14 October 2008 - 20 February 2009</p>
<p><a href="http://www.arup.com/europe/feature.cfm?pageid=11992" target="_blank">http://www.arup.com/europe/feature.cfm?pageid=11992</a>
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/lighthive" target="_blank">http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/lighthive</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arup.com/unitedkingdom/project.cfm?pageid=10803" target="_blank">http://www.arup.com/unitedkingdom/project.cfm?pageid=10803</a></p>
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