Featuring work by: Guy Swartzel,
Toma Peiu and Luiza Parvu, Jingy Li, Grace Simmons, Leila Goldstein, Samantha
Weisenthal, Nate White, and Taylor Miller
Over the course of the Spring
2018 semester, the Student Storytellers’ Fellows organized and curated an
international call for student documentary work addressing the theme of the
Surveil/Surveilled. The result is a multi disciplinary exhibition installed by
our student fellows at Skidmore College for Forum weekend. Over breakfast, we
invite you to take a closer look at the exhibition, after which the students
will lead a gallery talk.
Curatorial Statement: Through
the security camera’s invisible eye watching over public spaces, military
interventions, and the corporate creep in cyberspace, surveillance can pervade
our everyday lives in insidious ways. The tools of surveillance — observing,
watching, listening and recording — are fundamental to documentary work. How
can artistic practices engage with or subvert these technologies? What, if any,
are the implications of the inherent surveillance present in documentary work?
This event is part of the MDOCS Forum - a series of public
events combining festival presentations of artistic work with symposium-style
conversations around an annual theme. The symposium is free and open to the
public.
This
year, we will engage with the theme Surveil/Surveilled in documentary
and analyze documentary as a form of surveillance, consider the ethics and
legalities of observing and the vulnerability of being observed, learn how to
protect from surveillance, and engage with the documentary material that
surveillance systems yield to explore its storytelling and truth telling
potentials.
For a Full list of events for MDOCS Forum click HERE