Dear all again, since some people asked, the link to follow our streaming episodes is always at: https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays
We will be live on Friday 5PM CEST and you can follow us directly on our website. Hope to see you there! Tatiana On 09.09.20 14:32, Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote: > Dear all, > > we are back with our Disruptive Fridays and we are looking forward to > seeing you online at our upcoming event this Friday, September 11: > > Disruptive Fridays #12: > Global Surveillance in the Data Society > September 11, 5PM CEST > > With Sonia Kennebeck (Film Director, MY/DE/US), Assia Boundaoui > (Journalist, Filmmaker, Artists, DZA/US), Jer Thorp (Artist, Writer and > Teacher, CA/US). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, > Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Mauro Mondello (Investigative > Journalist, Filmmaker, IT). > > On September 11, Disruption Network Lab is organising Disruptive Fridays > 12#: Global Surveillance in the Data Society, a preview of the > conference DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights - > which Tatiana Bazzichelli is curating together with investigative > journalist Mauro Mondello (September 25-27, Kunstquartier Bethanien, > Berlin). > > The conversation will reflect on the discourse of surveillance and human > rights during the coronavirus crisis, and will reconnect it to another > event that reshaped our society: 9/11. > We decided to host it on 9/11 as a symbolic date, which signed > unprecedented measures on the level of security and surveillance, > compromising our privacy and freedom, and changing the way we perceived > our society. To unfold the discussion we invited three speakers that > have been dealing with the issues of data, tracking and human rights > since long time. > > Sonia Kennebeck will introduce her last film UNITED STATES VS. REALITY > WINNER, currently in post-production. The film is the story of > 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about > Russian election interference to the media and became the number one > leak target of the Trump administration. In the framework of the > discussion on post-9/11 surveillance and whistleblowing, she will trace > a line that connects her three films: National Bird (the story of three > whistleblowers who blow the whistle on the US drone war), Enemies of the > State (about the case of hacker Matt DeHart), and United States vs. > Reality Winner. > > Assia Boundaoui will present her work combining community storytelling, > visual arts, and artificial intelligence. Her work, The Inverse > Surveillance Project, is an AI program analysing hundreds of thousands > of documents collated by the FBI on people of colour over the past 100 > years, revealing historic patterns on tactics it used during operations. > An Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago, she > directed the film The Feeling of Being Watched, a documentary > investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Boundaoui's > Muslim-American community, which had its world premiere at the 2018 > Tribeca Film Festival. > > Jer Thorp, a data artist that designed (with Jake Barton) an algorithm > and a software tool to aid in the placement of the names on the 9/11 > Memorial in Manhattan, will discuss his data artistic practice. His 9/11 > Memorial Project allowed to arrange the names of those killed in the > 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business > relationships with each other. He also collaborated with Mark Hansen, > Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the > attacks. Author of many data-inspired artworks, his forthcoming book > Living in Data will be published in 2021. > > We will discuss the issue of surveillance and human rights, reflecting > on the transformation of our lives when security measures have been > extensively implemented in the US and worldwide. Tatiana Bazzichelli and > Mauro Mondello will moderate the talk. > > -------- > > SPEAKERS > > Sonia Kennebeck, Film Director, MY/DE/US > > Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and > investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and > producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries > and more than 50 investigative reports. National Bird, her first > feature-length film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was > also selected for Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA. In March 2017, National > Bird received the prestigious Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize that is > awarded to one documentary a year “that defends the public interest, > advances or promotes social justice, or illuminates a more just vision > of society.” Kennebeck received a master’s degree in international > affairs from American University in Washington, D.C. She was born in > Malacca, Malaysia, and lives in New York. > https://www.codebreakerfilms.com/films > > Assia Boundaoui, Journalist, Filmmaker, Artists, DZA/US > > Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based > in Chicago. She has reported for the BBC, NPR, PRI, Al Jazeera, VICE, > and CNN. Her debut short film about hijabi hair salons for the HBO LENNY > documentary series premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Her > feature length debut THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED, a documentary > investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's Muslim-American > community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. She > is currently a fellow with the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open > Documentary Lab, where she is iterating her most recent work, the > Inverse Surveillance Project. Assia has a Masters degree in journalism > from New York University and is fluent in Arabic. > > > > Jer Thorp, Artist, Writer and Teacher, CA/US > > Jer Thorp is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly > 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York > Times' first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic > Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at > the Library of Congress. Jer is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and an > alumnus of the World Economic Foundation’s Global Agenda Council on > Design and Innovation. He is an adjunct Professor in New York > University’s renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and > is the Co-Founder of The Office for Creative Research. In 2015, Canadian > Geographic named Jer one of Canada’s Greatest Explorers. Jer’s book > 'Living in Data’ will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the > spring of 2021. > https://www.jerthorp.com/ > -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
