Please join us for the Developing Room’s annual symposium, Photography and Surveillance, on Thursday, November 5, 1:00–4:00 PM (EST), via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. We would also appreciate if you would also forward this announcement to any students or colleagues who may be interested.
Event Details:
Thursday, November 5, 1:00–4:00 PM (EST)
RSVP to admincca.rutgers.edu for a Zoom link
This symposium will consider one of the most prevalent but unseen uses of the medium: the recording and documentation of civilian life around the world. From the time of photography’s origins, scholars and scientists celebrated the utopian potential of the camera’s all-seeing eye. Nearly 200 years later, these applications of lens-based technology—to document, surveil, record, and collect—shape the visual landscapes of public and private life. At each critical juncture in the medium’s technological development, photography has found pervasive, and at times, pernicious applications: as 19th-century detectives used mugshots to create archives of criminality, Facebook now applies facial recognition algorithms to build marketable consumer profiles. Meanwhile, the same satellite imagery that can document climate change and global conflict is also increasingly used to monitor civilian activity. Our symposium will present a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on this topic. Each presentation will be 20 minutes in length and the day will conclude with a panel discussion.
Schedule:
1:00 Introduction
1:15 Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Rutgers University
So that They May Never Return: Photography, the Ottoman State and the making of Armenian Emigrants
1:35 Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
New Faces of Privacy: Trans-Atlantic Historical and Legal Perspectives on the Circulation of Facial Images in Media, 1890-1940
1:55 Drew Thompson, Bard College
Coloring Black Surveillance
2:15 Break (10 minutes)
2:25 Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
Computer Vision and Surveillance: Fom Analysis to Synthesis
2:45 Mark Tribe, School of Visual Arts
Plein Air
3:05 – 4:00 Round Table Discussion
Visit developingroom.com for more information about the participants and their abstracts. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, email admincca.rutgers.edu. For general information, please email developingroomgmail.com.
Kaitlin Booher, Virginia McBride, and Hannah Shaw
Co-Organizers, Photography and Surveillance Symposium
The Developing Room Working Group
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Photography and Surveillance (online, 5 Nov 20). In: ArtHist.net, 29.10.2020. Letzter Zugriff 17.04.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/23811>.