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ART + ACTIVISM > UNDER SURVEILLANCE ART + ACTIVISM > NORMAN KLEIN

25 JANUARY 2008 08 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

Transparency, visibility, and access Norman Klein is a cultural critic,
are fundamental to Marie Sester’s urban and media historian, as well as a
latest project, ACCESS—an installation novelist. His books include “The History of
that will combine surveillance Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of
technology, a website, a unique robotic Memory,” “Seven Minutes: The Life and Death
spolight and acoustic beam system. The of the American Animated Cartoon.” and the
surveillance cameras will be mounted cinematic novel, “Bleeding Through: Layers
in a public, but undisclosed place of Los Angeles, 1920–86.” His latest book
outside the museum or art spaces, and is “The Vatican to Vegas: The History of
web users will secretly be able to Special Effects.”
track anonymous people as they enter
surveillance zones. Overall, the
project illuminates our fascination
with voyeurism and technologies for
spying on others. However, as Sester
points out, it also sparks fears of
being watched, of being controlled
by an increasingly panoptic culture
that coerces and controls its subjects
through invisible forms of technology.

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