TAPS 0500D - Surveillance, Performance, and Culture

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

This course will introduce students to a range of social, political and artistic applications of surveillance technologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through a mix of theoretical and practical explorations, students will examine surveillance technologies as tools of socio-political discipline as well as tools of performance in social and artistic frameworks. From artists using technologies of surveillance to create interactive performance and installation works, such as The Surveillance Camera Players, Institute for Applied Autonomy and the Shunt Collective, to social software systems such as Facebook we will explore the ways in which we have culturally embraced and responded to techniques and technologies of surveillance in our aesthetics and everyday lives.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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