Sorting Daemons
Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control, pp. 9-29
Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Co-Curator Jan Allen discusses the nine artworks and artists included in the exhibition Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control, whose aim is to highlight current themes and impulses as well as to "... touch upon the theatre of public spaces, physical and virtual...". Expanding surveillance practices and mechanisms are a central theme and Allen's critically informed essay discusses how the artists in the show "explore facets of surveillance as a social mechanism" and "describe an emerging matrix of surveillance culture." Artists include: Arnold Koroshegyi, Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere, Antonia Hirsch, David Rokeby, Kathleen Ritter, Jill Magid, Dave Kemp, Michael Lewis and Cheryl Sourkes.
ITEM 2010.030 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Rupture – Arnold Koroshegyi
Broken Arrow, Version 2 – Germaine Koh
Broken Arrow, Version 2 – Ian Verchere
the invisible hand (after Adam Smith) – Antonia Hirsch
Sorting Daemon – David Rokeby
Hidden Camera – Kathleen Ritter
Evidence Locker: Trust – Jill Magid
Data Collection – Dave Kemp
Some will take more prodding. Others will be more difficult. – Michael Lewis
Cam Cities – Cheryl Sourkes