Surveilling Utopia 2: Multi Media Installations by Ann Stoddard
Afterimage, Sept. Fall 2004, v. 32, no. 2, p. 9
A review of Ann Stoddard's interactive video art installation Surviving Utopia 2 (april 2004). Stoddard critiques the US government's Patriot Act as well the government's over-reliance on technology by placing the viewer in situations where they are able to observe themselves through surveilance images. The exhibition also includes footage from the Guantanamo Bay detentin centre as well as various interrogation rooms used by the US to question potential terrorists.
ITEM 2004.093 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Surveililng Utopia 2 – Ann Stoddard
Random Subjects – Ann Stoddard
Datapaint: Surveilling Utopia – Ann Stoddard
Application Center, Waiting Room – Ann Stoddard