videoclub presents:

February - March ‘11 • Hastings, Portsmouth & Bracknell

Beyond Surveillance

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

Beyond Surveillance is a collection of art works developed in response to and in counteraction against surveillance technologies, with a panel of speakers discussing the consequences of and alternatives to surveillance in our daily life.

What are the consequences of surveillance on our daily lives? Is surveillance provoking a climate of self-censorship? Is a society without a paternalising infrastructure of control, such as surveillance and censorship, possible?

As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous – from CCTV to data-mining on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar – does it not become ever more important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses, counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance?

Artist and curator Manu Luksch has selected several works which explore differing aspects of re-activism to surveillance technologies; selected artists include: David Valentine, Caspar Below, The Bureau of Inverse Technology and Michelle Teran.

Manu Luksch is highly celebrated for her work investigating the use of surveillance technologies in artistic practice: Ambient TV In particular her work ‘Faceless’ has been internationally recognised and celebrated for its approach in exploring CCTV / surveillance technology in society.

Venue and screening details:

Aspex Gallery

Date: Thursday, 10 March 2011

Time: 6pm

Cost: FREE

Address: Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth PO1 3BF

Web / contact: www.aspex.org.uk / 02392 778080

Electric Palace Cinema

Date: Wednesday, 09 February 2011

Time: 7:15pm doors, 8pm screening

Cost: £5 / £4 concessions

Address: 39A High Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34 3ER

Box office / web: www.electricpalacecinema.com / 01424 720393

South Hill Park Arts Centre

Date: Saturday, 19 March 2011

Time: 4:30pm

Cost: FREE

Address: Ringmead, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 7PA

Web / contact: www.southhillpark.org.uk / www.digitalmediacentre.org / 01344 484123

Funded by Arts Council England.