Events & Calendars "Visualizing the Surveillance Archive: Critical Art and the Dangers of Transparency"

On Thursday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the Clark House at Amherst College, Torin Monahan, professor of communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a paper titled “Visualizing the Surveillance Archive: Critical Art and the Dangers of Transparency.” This is the second presentation in a series of seminars that will take place this year on the theme “Law and the Visible.”

Professor Monahan’s research focuses on institutional transformations with new technologies, with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs. His many publications include the book Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity.

To receive a copy of the paper, which will investigate a number of critical art projects that construct counter-archives of visual material as a response to institutional surveillance programs, please email the LJST department coordinator at mlestes@amherst.edu.