Surveillance Beyond Privacy: A Forum on Surveillance & Social Control
24/06/2002
The UTS Community Law and Legal Research Centre and
SpaceStation Media Lab presents:
Surveillance Beyond Privacy
A critical forum on surveillance and social control
Wednesday 17th July 2002 - University Of Technology, Sydney: Law Faculty, Haymarket
Surveillance Beyond Privacy is a public event to critically discuss surveillance and social control in our society. This forum will map the different ways surveillance is reconfiguring social space, power and the ways that we live, beyond the present discourse of privacy.
Featuring:
Keynote address by Canadian sociologist Prof. David Lyon - internationally acclaimed author of Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Open University Press, 2001), and editor of the forthcoming Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, and Digital Discrimination - in his only speaking appearance in Sydney.
and
Paula Abood - community worker, writer and activist, currently working with ethnic communities on an anti-racism project in Western Sydney, NSW - speaking on the use of 'racial profiling' as surveillance.
Policy researcher and technology theorist David Sutton speaking on modern day living among data phantoms and the possibilities for response to data surveillance.
Independent forensic science commentator Michael Strutt speaking on bioinformatics, DNA databasing and the commodification of genetic information.
Also featuring video and multimedia installations by local and international artists responding to surveillance technologies and processes: Denis Beaubois 'In the event of amnesia the city will recall' (Australia), Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski 'AKA' (Australia), and the Institute of Applied Autonomy 'iSee', mapping urban routes of the least CCTV surveillance (USA).
WHEN:
Wednesday 17th July
6.00-8.00pm
WHERE:
UTS Law Faculty, Moot Court
Quay St, Haymarket
Between Central station and the Entertainment Centre
Cost: Free
This forum is part of a broader program to encourage public debate on the issue of surveillance. Other forums include: CITY STATE one day conference in Melbourne Saturday 20th July, and a reader on surveillance published by the UTS CLLRC.
More details:
www.citystate.org - citystate@cat.org.au
Ph:(02) 9514 2914
Supported by
UTS, CATALYST, 2ser, Melbourne City Council, 3RRR, 3CR & www.citystate.org
