Program is subject to change.
January 14-16, 2010, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC)
(public events listed in orange)
5:30 – 7:00pm Opening Keynote Lecture
Robert Sutherland Building Room 202
Clive Norris (Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield, UK)
"There's no success like failure and failure's no success at all": Some critical reflections on understanding the global growth of camera surveillance
7:30 – 9:00pm Dinner
8:30 – 9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45am Session 1: Introduction
(1) David Lyon (Department of Sociology, Queen’s University), Emily Smith (Research Associate, The Surveillance Studies Centre)
Through the Surveillance Lens
9:45 – 10:45am Session 2: Canadian Case Studies, Part I
Chair: Laureen Snider (Department of Sociology, Queen's University)
(2) Randy Lippert (Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor) Blair Wilkinson (MA Candidate, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor)
The Transfer and Use of Camera Surveillance Images: The Case of Crime Stoppers
(3) Patrick Derby (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
Policing in the Age of Information: The Emergence of ALPR in Canada, the US, and the UK
10:45 – 11:00am break
11:00am – 12:30pm Session 2: Canadian Case Studies, Part II
Chair: Gavin JD Smith (Department of Sociology, City University London, UK)
(4) Aaron Doyle (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University) Kevin Walby (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Carleton University)
Selling Surveillance: The Introduction of Cameras in Ottawa Taxis
(5) Danielle Dawson (MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
Public Perceptions of Camera Surveillance in Canada
(6) Laura Huey (Sociology, University of Western Ontario)
Anti-surveillance Activists v. The Dancing Heads of Terrorism: The Role of Signal Crimes, Media Frames and Symbolic Politics in the Marketing of CCTV Schemes
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30pm Film Screening of Faceless by Manu Luksch
Art Centre Atrium
Introduced by David Murakami Wood
2:30 – 3:30pm Session 3: Privacy and Legal Issues
Chair: Art Cockfield (Faculty of Law, Queen's University)
(7) Robert Ellis Smith (Publisher, Privacy Journal, Attorney at Law, Providence RI, USA)
Reversing the Conventional Wisdom on TV Monitoring
(8) Mathew Johnson (JD/MPA, Queen's University; Counsel, Department of Justice, Ottawa)
The Legal Context of Camera Surveillance in Canada
3:30 – 3:45pm break
3:45 – 4:45pm Session 4: Asymmetries of CCTV surveillance
Chair: Laura Huey (Sociology, University of Western Ontario)
(9) Joseph Ferenbok (Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto) and Andrew Clement (Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto)
Hidden Changes: How behind-the-scene digitization entrenches the asymmetries of CCTV surveillance
(10) Andrew Clement (Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto) and Joseph Ferenbok (Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto)
Mitigating Asymmetric Visibilities: Towards a (Canadian) CCTV Signage Code
5:00 – 6:30pm Dinner
7:00 – 8:30pm Ellis Auditorium
Introduction by Queen's Principal Daniel Woolf
Surveillance Studies Centre Opening remarks by François Cadieux, Senior Research Officer on behalf of Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture: Jordan Crandall, media artist and theorist, University of California at San Diego
Q&A
8:30 - 10:00pm Reception, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
8:30 – 9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00am Session 5: International Case Studies, Part I
Chair: Elia Zureik (Department of Sociology, Queen's University)
(11) Christopher Burt (PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Wireless Audio Visual System in Hoboken, NJ, USA
(12) David Murakami Wood (Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
Global Surveillance Societies: What can Canada learn from the experience of video surveillance in other countries?
10:00 - 10:15am break
10:15am – 11:15pm Session 6: International Case Studies, Part II
Chair: Alanur Cavlin (Post-Doctoral Researcher in Sociology, The Turkish Academy of Sciences)
(13) Mark Lizar (MSc Candidate, London South Bank University, UK)
Legal compliance, trust and contextual integrity of CCTV signage: some methodological notes
(14) Gavin JD Smith (Department of Sociology, City University London, UK)
A Corroding Silver Bullet: The Rise and Fall of CCTV in the UK
11:15 - 11:45am Plenary discussion; following remarks by Clive Norris
Chair: David Lyon (Department of Sociology, Queen's University)
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch break
1:00 – 2:30pm Session 7: Data Harvests and the Theatre of the Self
Moderator: David Murakami Wood
(16) David Kemp (artist, Toronto)
Data Collection: Every Card Is A Database
(17) Kathleen Ritter (artist, Vancouver)
Now You See It, Now You Don't
(18) Cheryl Sourkes (artist, Toronto)
Live Free Webcams
2:30 – 2:45pm break
2:45 – 4:45pm Session 8: The Construction of Public Spaces/Public Spheres
Moderator: Kirsty Màiri Robertson (Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario)
(19) Antonia Hirsch (artist, Vancouver)
A Plurality of Solitudes
(20) David Rokeby (artist, Toronto)
Camera as Projector: The Automated Gaze in Public Space
(21) Martin Zeilinger (Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
Surveillance Culture and Appropriation – CCTV as Found Footage in Manu Luksch's Faceless
(22) Jonathan Finn (Department of Communication Studies, Wilfred Laurier University)
Seeing Surveillantly: Surveillance as Social Practice
6:30pm Dinner break
Workshop participants are welcome to attend the exhibition Sorting Daemons, including surveillance art films playing continuously during gallery hours at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
2:00 – 3:45pm “Defiant Gazes: Surveillance in Contemporary Society” screening and discussion, Ellis Auditorium
Five artists’ videos on surveillance produced between 1997 and 2004 offer a spectrum of approaches, each attempting, in its own way, to unsettle conventional understanding of surveillance practices.
Introduction: Sarah E.K. Smith (Department of Art, Queen’s University)
Discussion: Sarah E.K. Smith and Susan Lord (Film and Media Studies, Queen’s University)
Videos:
1, Shelly Silver (3:12)
Bit Plane, Bureau of Inverse Technology (14:00)
dead end job, Ryan Stec (6:26)
Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, Walid Ra’ad (7:00)
Ocularis: Eye Surrogates, Tran T Kim-Trang (21:00)
Camera Surveillance in Canada: A Research Workshop acknowledgements:
Sponsored by the 2009-2010 Contributions Program of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), Ottawa and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), hosted by The Surveillance Camera Awareness Network (SCAN) and The Surveillance Studies Centre, in affiliation with The New Transparency Project
Sorting Daemons acknowledgements:
This exhibition and its associated programs and publication are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston, the Kingston Arts Council, The New Transparency SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI), the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University, the Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture Fund, and the Department of Art.
