June 2015 is not June 2013: Post-Snowden Cooperation Events
June 2015 is not June 2013: Post-Snowden Cooperation Events
One year ago, on June 5th, 2014, we commemorated 1-year of Snowden leaks and debates around the contemporary surveillance complex with 'The Magical Secrecy Tour' (see below). Two years on, the debate has not slowed down or lost it sense of urgency. In this context, transmediale is very proud to announce three cooperation events at the intersection of art, technology and politics that each in their own way address current, historical and imaginary surveillance cultures.
Surveillance Culture
Berlin, the Cold War, and the Post-Snowden Era – Panel
June 5, 2015, 5 pm Free Speech Debate and Asian Studies Centre.
Joint Panel with Paul Betts (St Antony’s College), Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute), Faisal Devji (St Antony’s College), Leslie Dunton-Downer (American Academy in Berlin), Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale, Berlin) and Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College). Location: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
On June 5th, 2014, one year after the initial publication of NSA disclosures by Edward Snowden, 'The Magical Secrecy Tour' made a day-long bus journey into past and present surveillance cultures of Berlin. transmediale invited hackers, technology-based artists, activists, former spies, whistleblowers, politicians, theorists, journalists, and others to explore Berlin, in the context of the Snowden revelations, as a unique capital of informed response to global mass surveillance.
This discussion panel at the University of Oxford is based on a screening of film clips from 'The Magical Secrecy Tour' by Swedish documentarian Simon Klose.
Watch the three-part documentary here.
The Digital Surveillance State: Quo Vadis Democracy?
On the current waves of surveillance, censorship, the erosion of civil rights and the need for political control of intelligence services.
June 7, 2015, 3pm round of talks with Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack and Coleen Rowley with Konstantin von Notz, Martina Renner, Peter Schaar and Prof. Dr. Josef Foschepoth.
Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
Free admission
How have these times of mass surveillance, data espionage and cooperation between the BND and NSA altered our established understanding of democracy? How was the NSA scandal perceived in the United States and in Germany and what can – and must – we learn from it?
The round of talks will be opened by the economist, peace activist and former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and the former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, along with introductory remarks by the American journalist and Editorial board member of ExposeFacts.org, Norman Solomon.
The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Harrison, journalist and director of the Courage Foundation. A Q & A session is scheduled for after the panel discussion. During the exchange, the public is invited to take part in the discussion by sending in their questions or comments on Twitter using the hashtag #qvdemocracy.
Presented in cooperation with the Courage Foundation, ExposeFacts.org, DIE ZEIT, ZEIT Online, Haus der Kulturen der Welt und transmediale.
You can follow the event via livestream or audiostream. The discussion will be simultaneously translated from English to German and vice versa.
Watch the related debate with Sarah Harrison, Thomas Drake, Jesselyn Radack and William Binney from transmediale 2015: Freedom of Information in Reverse: A Discussion of SILENCED
Polymorphism #14: Holly Herndon, AGF aka poemproducer, Amnesia Scanner, Claire Tolan
June 11, Berghain, Doors 8pm, Start 9pm, Advanced tickets via KOKA36
To present her exciting new album 'Platform', CTM and transmediale have asked Holly Herndon to invite a range of artists who either contributed to the album or, in a likeminded way, explore themes of surveillance states, neo-feudalism and big data, actively criticizing and searching for ways to circumvent systemic inequality and to anticipate new ways to live in a post-post-capitalist world.
There will be limited edition long sleeve t-shirts in support of Chelsea Manning available for sale at the event. Read more on the special t-shirt cooperation and check out the two designs here.
Image Credits:
1 Photo by Adam Berry
2 David Ramos/Getty Images
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