In other news, Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design, a lush new compendium from Gestalten, includes Fair-weather forces: level and Prayers.
I'm just back from the opening and related symposium for Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Curators Jan Allen and Sarah E.K. Smith brought together a judicious selection of recent work focused on issues around surveillance (the artists are Brenda Goldstein, Antonia Hirsch, David Kemp, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere, Arnold Koroshegyi, Ruthann Lee, Michael Lewis, Jill Magid, Walid Ra’ad; Kathleen Ritter, David Rokeby, Tom Sherman, Cheryl Sourkes and John Watt). The symposium Sorting Daemons, presented in conjunction with the Queen's University Sociology Department's Centre for Surveillance Studies, was a richly thought-provoking dive into issues of self-surveillance, cultures of control, and such.
It was designed by Julia Feyrer with a database and coding by Matthew Brown.
Please have a look around, and use the contact form on the _INFO page to let me know what you think.
Cheers, Germaine Koh