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The Goethe-Institut is pleased to present the interdisciplinary symposium Images of Surveillance: The Politics, Economics, and Aesthetics of Surveillance Societies from December 4 to 6, bringing together artists, scholars, writers, activists, politicians, and others to reflect on surveillance beyond the dichotomies that have come to shape public discourse on the topic in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations.

Images of Surveillance will combine lectures, panel discussions, artist talks and presentations, as well as several performances and a video installation, to explore the topic in its various political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions and open new ways to think about surveillance in the 21st century.

Participants includeJacob Appelbaum, Armen Avanessian, Roger Berkowitz, Big Art Group, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Ulf Buermeyer, Jimena Canales, Simon Critchley, Simon Denny, Diedrich Diederichsen, Bernard Harcourt, Dietmar Kammerer, Chris Kondek & Christiane Kühl, Korpys/Löffler, David Lyon, Uday Mehta, Evgeny Morozov,Trevor Paglen, Alessandra Renzi, Marcus Steinweg, Nils Zurawski, and others.

Admission to Images of Surveillance is free. For additional information, please visit www.goethe.de/ny/sensitivedata.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

6pm

Surveillance after Snowden

David Lyon, keynote lecture

 

7:30pm

Opening reception

Korpys/Löffler: PIOS (2015)

Video installation, on view through December 17

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5

GROUND FLOOR

11am

Surveillance and the Emergence of the Neoliberal Welfare State

Evgeny Morozov

 

12pm

Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

Bernard Harcourt

 

Surveillance in the Post-Capitalist Society
Armen Avanessian

 

Beyond Good or Evil: Or, a few thoughts on how to think about surveillance

Jimena Canales

3pm BREAK

 

3:30pm

Marcus Steinweg intervenes

 

4pm

Surveillance and the Private Life: Hannah Arendt & Gandhi

Roger Berkowitz & Uday Mehta in conversation

 

Images of Video Surveillance

Dietmar Kammerer

 

5:30pm BREAK

 

6pm

The International Necronautical Society’s Declaration on Digital Capitalism
Simon Critchley, reading

7pm

Anonymous Prometheus

Chris Kondek & Christiane Kühl, lecture performance

 

8pm

Harun Farocki: I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000) & Counter Music (2004)

film screening

 

 

4th FLOOR

4-7pm

Surveillance, Biopolitics, and the City: Health, Foreign Bodies, Visibility, and Discipline

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, seminar

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6

GROUND FLOOR

10:30am

Breakfast

 

11am

Between Data Protection and Repression: Discussing Surveillance Discourses

Nils Zurawski

 

Glances into the Dark: The Bundestag's Intelligence Investigatory Committee and its Repercussions on the German Public Debate about Mass Surveillance

Ulf Buermeyer

 

12:30pm

Surveillance Artivism: Performing the Data Body

Alessandra Renzi

 

1:30pm

Autonomy Cube

Trevor Paglen, artist talk

 

2pm

Jacob Appelbaum (Munich) in conversation with Trevor Paglen (New York), videoconference

 

3pm

Marcus Steinweg intervenes

 

3:30pm BREAK

 

4pm

Big Art Group’s SOS

Caden Manson & Jemma Nelson in conversation with Gideon Lester

 

Simon Denny in conversation with Peter Eleey

 

6pm BREAK

 

6:30pm

The World a Third Time: Or, how to win the war against positivism
Diedrich Diederichsen, final remarks

 

4th FLOOR

11am-2pm

Strategic Mapping: Surveillance and the Battlefield from ‘Radical Theory’ to ‘Facts on the Ground’

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, seminar

 

3-6pm

 

Media, Society, and Spying for the State: Transatlantic Reflections on Autonomy, Social Expression, and the Antinomies of Surveillance
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, seminar

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