CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother.ZENTRUM FUR KUNST UND UND University of North Dakota UND University of Notre Dame UND University of Natal-Durban (South Africa) UND Urgency of Need Designator UND Union Nationale et Démocratique MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE The twofold destiny of the spectator: A viewing subject, this modern figure who was constituted parallel to the autonomous work of art, is also always the object of the other's gaze. This is the theme explored by Thomas Y. Levin lev·in n. Archaic Lightning. [Middle English levene, levin; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.] through an itinerary whose theoretical and chronological point of departure is Jeremy Bentham's vision of a panoptical pan·op·tic also pan·op·ti·cal adj. Including everything visible in one view. [From Greek panoptos, fully visible : pan-, with respect to everything, fully; see prison project. Examining the consequences of this model of total control for visual culture, Levin has gathered around fifty names, among them artists, photographers, architects, and filmmakers. "CTRL See control key. ctrl - control [SPACE]": an exhibition that should see you. Oct. 12-Feb. 24. Translated from French by Jeanine Herman. |
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