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Week Nine/ March 6:
"But I've got nothing to hide" - Surveillance and Media Culture
Guest Lecture: Stéfy McKnight, Media Artist and MA Cultural Studies, Queen's University.
Readings:
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Lyon, David. 2007. "Surveillance, Visibility, and Popular Culture." In Surveillance Studies an Overview: 139-158. Polity Press, Cambridge.
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Sturken, Marita and L. Cartwright. 2001. "Spectatorship, Power and Knowledge." In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford University Press: 72-108.
Screening: Closed Circuit, dir. John Crowley, writer Steven Knight, (2013) USA. Trailer.
Supplementary Readings:
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Trottier, Daniel. 2012. "Interpersonal Surveillance and Social Media." In Canadian Journal of Communication Vol 37: 319-332.
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Foucault, Michel. 1977. "Panopticism." In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. NY: Vintage Books [1995]: 195-228.
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Lyon, David. 2015. "Precarious Privacy." In Surveillance After Snowden. Cambridge: Polity Press: 91-114.
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Haggerty, Kevin D.. 2006. "Tear Down the Walls: on demolishing the panopticon." In Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, edited by David Lyon, 23-45. Willan Publishing.
Screening clips:
Enemy of the State, dir. by Tony Scott, Writer David Marconi, (1998) USA.
Citizenfour, dir. by Laura Poitras, (2104) USA.
Websites:
Chief, Betsy. 2015. "The Drone Papers" (website). The Intercept. First Look Media. https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
Cahill, Susan. 2015. Art and Surveillance (website). www.artandsurveillance.com
Bridle, James. 2015. “The Space" (website). Citizen Ex. http://citizen-ex.com/download
Artworks:
Wafaa Bilal. 2007. The Paintball Project performance, FlatFile Gallery, Chicago.
Trevor Paglen. 2015. Photographs of National Security Administration(NSA) sites.
Jill Magid. 2004. Evidence Locker.
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins. 2010. Google.
Stéphanie McKnight (Stéfy) is a Kingston Ontario based artist. She began her career as a visual artist while undergoing a BFA at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. Interested in how cultural objects and productions produce knowledge and interaction, her research focuses on gender performativity, privacy, media, surveillance post 9/11 and Edward Snowden revelations. Stéfy’s primary artistic medium is installation art in forms of site specific, video; experimental photography, performance and found objects. Stéfy has recently exhibited work at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, OCAD University, WKP Kennedy Gallery and White Water Gallery in North Bay and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2015 her work Coded, I Am was shortlisted for the Queen’s University Research Photo Contest. Stéfy is currently a MA candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen's University.
e: stefy.mcknight at queensu.ca