Beyond Snowden: Surveillance And The Construction Of Difference
@ LATITUDE
1821 West Hubbard Street, STE 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
Edward Snowden’s leak of NSA documents, revealing the widespread surveillance of US citizens, awakened a general public’s awareness of the overreach of the government into private conversations and information. What was perhaps not as evident was how surveillance has been enacted on particular marginalized populations by the US government since the very beginnings of its institutions. The criminalization of immigrants and the subsequent rationalization for their surveillance by way of heightened scrutiny around their documentation or the call of vigilant citizenry, is but one example of how certain populations experience surveillance differently. How else might we begin to see more clearly the often layered connections between surveillance and the construction of difference and critically engage as concerned citizens when marginalized communities are affected? Join former LATITUDE resident Huong Ngo in conversation with Tia-Simone Gardner, Lars McKenzie, and Simon Spartalian to examine aspects of intersectionality in relation to information systems, surveillance, image making, and digital identities.
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