Sensing the Sea: Marine Catastophes and their Counter-Surveillance
Sensing the Sea: Marine Catastrophes and their Counter-Surveillance
Collaborative Workshop at the IFK, Vienna
Organisers: Charlotte Reihs, Sophie Liepold, Simon Angerer and Carina Hinterdorfer with Jonathan Stafford and Burkhardt Wolf.
Date: 7th December 2024, 10-20 Uhr
Location: ifk, Reichsratstrasse 17, 1010 Vienna
The Mediterranean Sea plays an important role today as a transit area between Europe, Africa and Asia, facilitating the efficient shipment of goods, raw materials people. However, seabed beneath surface is home to number hazardous substances, wrecked sea vessels - countless people who have lost their lives at sea. It appears that European states authorities are primarily managing surveillance for extensive databases transmitted in real time.
Nevertheless, some sea rescue activists and artists adopt a counter-surveillance approach to the Mediterranean, viewing it as an opportunity and obligation to investigate the unofficial, dark, repressed side of transit with the aim of securing and documenting traces in this area.
Programme:
10:00-10:30 Welcome and Introduction (Burkhardt Wolf)
10:30-12:00 Marina Gioti: Shipwreck(ed) Ecologies: Mapping Failure and Catharsis in the Subaqueous Realm (Moderation: Charlotte Reihs)
12:00-12:15 Coffee break
12:15-13:45 Stefanos Levidis: Dark Waves, Sharp Rocks: Sensing state violence at the Mediterranean frontier (Moderation: Sophie Liepold)
13:45-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-17:00 Christian von Borries: The task of the image. Photos and videos of migration and how AI might dissolve human biases (Moderation: Simon Angerer)
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18.45 Screening of the movie Purple Sea (2020) in the presence of its director Amel Alzakout
18.45-20:00 Roundtable Discussion (Moderation: Jonathan Stafford)
Further details can be found in the flyer here.
Contact Email
carina.hinterdorfer@univie.ac.at
URL
https://ds-philkult.univie.ac.at/news-detail/news/sensing-the-sea-collaborative…
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