6 Apr 2010 | Digital Freedom, Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
On 5 April, Wikileaks, the website that publishes sensitive leaked material, released a video showing a 2007 US military airstrike that killed about a dozen Iraqis in eastern Baghdad. Among the dead were a 22-year-old Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40. The Pentagon had previously blocked an attempt by Reuters to obtain the video through a freedom of information request. Wikileaks director Julian Assange said his organisation had to break through military encryption to view the footage.
6 Apr 2010 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance Japanese journalist who has been missing since March 31, has been found imprisoned in the province of Baghlan, according to a local Afghan reporter on Sunday. The Afghan authorities say that they were not aware of Tsuneoka’s presence in the country until his disappearance received publicity, it has been suggested he did not have the right visa/accreditation.
6 Apr 2010 | Events
April 17 2010, 2pm – 4pm
Project Phakama, a young people’s theatre company, leads a session of participatory drama and discussion to explore different positions on self-censorship, freedom of expression and causing offence.
Phakama’s young people and tutors work together in the UK and around the world to create trailblazing, risk-taking theatrical events in any location with any young person who wants to take part. Phakama’s process, based on the ‘give and gain’ principle, establishes creative equality among everyone and puts the imaginative engagement of different cultures at the core of all activities.
In association with the performance of ‘Behud’ at Soho Theatre, this enjoyable and revealing session will provide a forum for a wider investigation into the themes of the play.
6 Apr 2010 | Events
28 April 2010, 6pm – Free Entry
Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
A screening of art works developed in response to and in counteraction against surveillance technologies, will be followed by a panel discussing the consequences of surveillance and censorship on daily life – how do we respond to or engage with the consequences of censorship and surveillance?
As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous – from CCTV to data-mining on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar – it becomes all the more important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses, counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance.
Artist and curator Manu Luksch has selected several works which explore differing aspects of re-activism to surveillance technologies; selected artists include: David Valentine, Caspar Below, The Bureau of Inverse Technology and MediaShed. Manu Luksch is highly celebrated for her work investigating the use of surveillance technologies in artistic practice: www.ambienttv.net In particular her work Faceless has been internationally recognised and celebrated for its approach in exploring CCTV / surveillance technology in society.
Links:
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org
http://www.videoclub.org.uk
http://www.ambienttv.net
