Table Talk: Debate as Public Research

Surveillance

Co-facilitated by Ain Gordon and Toby Lee

Surveillance is the theme of the first Table Talk. Questions included: What are the impacts of changing visual and media culture on our understanding of surveillance practices? How does surveillance function as an aesthetic experience? What are the most recent critical approaches to surveillance and how are political motives, social agendas, and ideological positions catalyzed and revealed through use of surveillance technologies?

With:

Sebastian Calderon Bentin, Assistant Professor (Tisch Drama)

Caitlin Berrigan, Associate Teacher (Tisch Photography and Imaging)

Bill Brown, Surveillance Camera Players

Sarah Christman, Filmmaker (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College)

Madeleine Clare Elish, Cultural Anthropologist (PhD Candidate, Columbia University)

Devin Kenny, Artist/Writer/Musician/Curator

Toby Lee, Assistant Professor (Tisch Cinema Studies)