Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto: Joana Moll presents “AZ:Move and get shot”

The 17th annual Subtle Technologies Festival will take place in Mai, 20-31 2014.

Looking at art, science and DIY culture it will investigate the tools and techniques of harnessing collective knowledge and creativity. The theme for 2014 is “Open Culture”. The festival will celebrate the ways artists and scientists are creating and making use of tools and techniques to harness the collective power, knowledge and creativity of the citizen. Bringing together artists and scientists who are working in these domains will open streams of dialogue leading to increased collaboration between artists and scientists who are interested in contribution of an engaged public.

Joana Moll will present “AZ:Move and get shot” at the exhibition “Open access”, on May 23 – 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Lobby of Architecture Buildling, Ryerson University, 325 Church Street, Toronto

Anthropology as a fine art ?

An article by Carine Claude on Poptronics, who’s analysing works between anthropology and digital creation, amongst which Samira (Nicola Maï) and A crossing industry (Cédric Parizot et Douglas Edric Stanley) shown at the exhibitions of the antiAtlas borders.

“L’anthropologie numérique sort des cénacles universitaires pour se frotter à la création digitale. En témoigne la multiplication des manifestations ouvertes au public, expos, colloques ou festivals, parmi lesquels la deuxième édition des “Anthropologies numériques”, au Cube d’Issy-les-Moulineaux les 19 et 20 mars derniers. L’occasion d’aller observer, entre nouveaux terrains de jeux et questions sur la méthode, comment l’anthropologie se tourne vers l’art pour repenser son approche scientifique.”

Read the article on Poptronics (article in french)

What You Should Know About FBI’s Giant Biometric Database

An article by Tana Ganeva on AlterNet

The FBI’s Next Generation Identification is expected to house 52 million photos searchable by face recognition technology by next year.

Since 2008, the FBI has been hard at work transforming its massive fingerprint database (IAFIS) into an even more massive biometric database called Next Generation Identification. NGI will include iris scans, palm prints and images of faces that can be scanned using face recognition technology and matched to age, race, address, ID number, and immigration status, among other things.

Read the full article on AlterNet

Social Justice and Peace Conference 2014: The [Real] Border Wards

The UTPA Department of Criminal Justice is sponsoring an event to promote human rights, social justice and peace. The goal of this conference/exhibition is to engage the students, the community, and the faculty in a dialogue about social problems which affect our lives here on the border, physically and metaphorically.

Not only do we want to raise social consciousness, we want to provide an avenue for discussing solutions to these problems. The purpose of this conference is to provide a safe space for dialogue and protest. Activists, scholars and campus organizations are invited to share their struggles, as well as their visions for a better future, including solutions we can implement as individuals.

All the informations on UTPA website

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A Google Glass user attacked in San Francisco

A text by Thomas Gorton on Dazed

“As the second Glass wearer in two months is assaulted, will we ever learn to accept Google Glass?”

“The wearable computer Google Glass has been thrust into the spotlight once more after another attack on a user in San Francisco. Last month, the tech writer Sarah Slocum had her Glass snatched in a bar in the early hours of a Saturday morning. This time around, the victim was a 20-year-old reporter called Kyle Russell.”

Read the article on Dazed

William Walters – Aeroplanes and Deportation

William Walters, Carleton university

Aeroplanes and Deportation
Conference organized by Martina Tazzioli (postdoc Lames LabexMed) in the frame of the LAMES’ seminar Migrations et crises. Discussants: Cédric Parizot (IREMAM, CNRS/AMU), Martina Tazzioli (LAMES/LabexMed, AMU)

10 May 2016, 2.00-5.00 pm, Room PAF (MMSH)

Image : Jean Pierre Cassarino, Réseau des accords bilatéraux liés à la réadmission, 2013

Élisa Ganivet – Esthétique du mur géopolitique

Présentation de l’ouvrage Esthétique du mur géopolitique

Auteure : Élisa Ganivet

Maison d’Edition : Presses de l’Université du Québec, Collection Enjeux Contemporains dirigée par Élisabeth Vallet et Charles-Philippe David, UQAM – Montréal, Chaire Raoul- Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques. Sortie le 1 er Avril 2016 en France

Préface d’Élisabeth Vallet.

Regard d’une centaine d’artistes sur l’esthétique frontalière historique et contemporaine. Des années après la chute du mur de Berlin, à l’heure de la mondialisation et du libre- échange, une cinquantaine de murs sont toujours érigés dans le monde, notamment autour du territoire d’Israël et à la frontière du Mexique et des États-Unis, où des barrières d’environ 500 km de long se dressent. Si les justifications énoncées par les États sont multiples – immigration clandestine, terrorisme, contrebande, etc. –, l’élévation d’une barrière de séparation semble reprendre une formule ancestrale de rejet de l’autre-étranger et transgresse le principe d’universalité. Sa matérialité archaïque entrant en conflit avec l’image d’un monde postmoderne et technologique, le mur cristallise un malaise qui se doit d’être élucidé par l’art. Sa visibilité et son sensationnalisme en font littéralement l’affiche d’un événement géopolitique, que les artistes investissent. Qu’est-ce qui intéresse les artistes si le mur est conjoncturellement éphémère ? Est-ce ses métamorphoses ou bien son cadre spatiotemporel ? L’auteure de cet ouvrage compare trois murs – le mur de Berlin, la barrière de séparation entre Israël et l’autorité palestinienne et la frontière sécurisée entre le Mexique et les États-Unis – selon leur esthétique développée par trois artistes phares : Joseph Beuys, Banksy et Frida Kahlo. L’étude des contextes, enjeux et missions géopolitiques, appliquée à chaque barrière de séparation, rend compte des failles et des défaillances de systèmes a priori bien huilés. Car si le mur renvoie généralement à l’idée d’être chez soi et protégé, il peut aussi être synonyme d’isolement, que ce soit voulu ou non. Il est la structure physique et symbolique d’une dynamique carcérale.

Photo: Larissa Sansour, Bethlehem Bandolero (performance, video) 2005 © Larissa Sansour. Courtesy of the artist

Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall: Spaces of Separation and Occupation

Edited by Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, French Institute of the Near East, CNRS, Palestinian Territories and Cédric Parizot, IREMAM, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, Aix en Provence, France

Ashgate, 2015
294 pages
14 illustrations and 9 maps

Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing on the over-mediatized separation wall, this book deals with what it hides: its shadows. Based on fieldwork studies carried out by French, Italians, Israelis, Palestinian and Swiss researchers on the many sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, it highlights a new geography of occupation, specific forms of interconnectedness and power relations between Israeli and Palestinian spaces. It offers a better understanding of the transformation of people’s interactions, their experiences and the ongoing economy of exchanges created by the separation regime. This heterogeneous regime increasingly involves the participation of Palestinian and international actors. Grounded in refined decryptions of territorial realities and of experiences of social actors’ daily lives this book goes beyond usual political, media and security representations and discourses on conflict to understand its contemporary stakes on the ground.

More information on the book 

Read the introduction of the book

Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance)

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra
Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
January 31 – May 10, 2015

Participating artists

Bambitchell (Canada), Yto Barrada (Morocco / France), Patrick Beaulieu (Canada), RebeccaBelmore (Canada), Mahwish Chishty (Pakistan / USA), Harun Farocki (Germany), Chitra Ganesh and MariamGhani (Afghanistan / India / USA), Tory James and Alex McKay (Canada), ShelaghKeeley (Canada), OsmanKhan (USA), Evan Lee (Canada), Victoria Lomasko (Russia), Dylan Miner (Métis), Trevor Paglen (USA), Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner (Canada), Tazeen Qayyum (Canada / Pakistan), José Seoane (Canada / Cuba), Charles Stankievech (Canada), Hito Steyerl (Germany), Syrus Marcus Ware (Canada / USA), Tintin Wulia (Australia / Bali)

Three years ago, the AGW launched Border Cultures, a series of exhibitions which deepen our understanding of what is means to be a border city in the 21st century. Located in the southernmost part of Canada across the river from the USA, Windsor is an important site for the arrival and departure for Indigenous, settler and migrant communities. Crisscrossing the geographic and national boundaries for generations in search of freedom, land, work and security, the collective memory, (oral) histories and cultures on these lands are at once deeply interwoven and splintered along colonial, racial and economic lines. This three-part exhibition Border Cultures: Part One (homes, land) (2013), Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour) (2014) and Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance) (2015) was conceptualized as a research platform, bringing together regional, national and international artists to examine the complex and shifting notions of national boundaries.

The final iteration of this series, Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance) examines the impact of heightened militarization along national boundaries that has intensified deportations, detentions and mechanisms of surveillance of migrants and foreigners. The culture of fear has accelerated the latent colonial hierarchies across the world. In North America missing Aboriginal women in Canada and incarceration of black men in America urges us to reconsider questions of security and citizenship. Moving back and forth between these internal and external boundaries, Part Three proposes the border as a site of struggle between personal subjectivities and systems of power. The series has brought together 45 artists from diverse local, national and international backgrounds to re-imag(in)e national boundaries as bridges and meeting places to build solidarity and mutual respect.

The AGW thanks TD Bank Group, multi-year sponsor for the Border Cultures 2013-15 exhibition series.

Public Programs

Friday, January 30, 7–10 pm
Fridays Live! Opening Reception for Winter Exhibitions
Celebrate the winter exhibitions, participate in the Make Your Own Passport workshop, meet the artists, enjoy delicious treats, music by DJ Double A and a cash bar!
Location: AGW 2nd floor
Cost: $7.00 (FREE to AGW Members)

Saturday, January 31, 2–4 pm
Join us for a panel discussion, Border Talk # 3 : On agency, security and violence with artists Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell, Patrick Beaulieu, Shelagh Keeley, Osman Khan, Camille Turner, Tazeen Qayyum, Syrus Marcus Ware and moderator Andrew Herscher. Pay-what-you-can admission

Saturday, February 28 12–1 pm: Curator-led tour of Border Cultures with Srimoyee Mitra
2–4 pm: Images of War: What is Forgotten, How Do We Remember? A panel discussion including John Greyson, Elle Flanders, José Seoane and Mahwish Chishty; moderated by Dr. Lee Rodney.
Pay-what-you-can admission

Wednesday, March 25
5:30–6:30 pm: Curator-led tour of Border Cultures with Srimoyee Mitra
6:30–8 pm: Two Drone an audio-visual performance by Osman Khan and Bekay Mobtu

March 26, 2:30–4 pm
talk by CONFLICT KITCHEN followed by a reception.
Location: Room 115, Lebel Building, University of Windsor, southwest corner of Huron Church Road and College Avenue, Windsor. Admission is FREE and open to the public. Presented in Partnership with the School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor.

March 27, 9 am – 5 pm
Sustainable Economies: Regional Public Art Galleries and Art-Vibrant Scenes, a professional development exchange presented by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries with the AGW.

March 28, April 11, 18, 25, 12-2 pm
transcription events by Alex McKay and Tory James

Wednesday, April 1, 4-6 pm McPhearson Lounge, University of Windsor
Ah Raza! The Making of an American Artist, a multi-media performance created by the Tug Collective in the
USA-Mexico borderlands. Organized by Dr. Lee Rodney.

For more information, contact Nicole McCabe at nmccabe@agw.ca or 519-977-0013 ext. 134.

Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West, Windsor, ON N9A 7J1 www.agw.ca

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The AGW would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Photos : Rebecca Belmore; The Named and the Unnamed,; video installation (still); Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2005.

Yto Barrada;Le Detroit – Detroit – Trou dans le Grillage, Tanger 2003, From A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project, (1998–2004). Courtesy Galerie Polaris, Paris.

International Conference of Critical Geography

Precarious radicalism on shifting grounds : towards a politics of possibility

26-30 JULY 2015 | Ramallah, Palestine

Despite the social, political and economic significance of the Middle East, past and present, this region remains poorly understood and often ignored within the geography discipline. By hosting the 7th edition of the International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG) in Palestine, the organizing collective and the International Critical Geography Group (ICGG) hope to contribute to redressing this neglect and to shed light on the convoluted realities of this context. In other words, we aim to place Palestine and the Middle East more broadly on the map of critical geography, academically and politically.

More information on ICCG website

The Unmanned Systems Expo

february, 4th – 6th, 2015
World Forum
The Hague – The Netherlands

The Unmanned Systems Expo (TUSExpo) is a dedicated and focused business platform, unique in bringing together European and global companies from the entire Unmanned Systems supply chain with customers and end-users. This event provided opportunities for new international cooperation in the Unmanned Systems industry.

TUSExpo consists of the following ‘zones’:

Trade Show
Conference
Country Pavilions
Start-up/New business
Media
Innovation
Live demonstrations
Technical seminar
University
Meeting
Recruiting
Makers Lab
Hospitality

All informations on TUSExpo.com

Forensis, exhibition in Berlin

An art-science exhibition in Berlin
2014, Mar 15, Sat – 2014, May 05, Mon

How do mortal remains, DNA samples, and satellite images become forensic evidence? What role do imaging techniques and methods of representation play in the investigation of crimes or political acts of violence? How are objects made to speak?

Forensis seeks to invert the direction of the forensic gaze and designate the emergence of new aesthetic-political practices by which individuals and independent organisations use new technologies aesthetic practices, and architectural methodologies to bear upon a range of issues from political struggle to violent conflict and climate change.

Toutes les informations sur le site de la HKW

Forensic Architecture and SITU Research, Video-to-space analysis : Bil’In, Image from the 3D virtual model reconstruction of the scene at the moment of the shooting of Bassem Abu Rahma, © Forensic Architecture and Situ Studio