Harcourt, B. E. (2017). Laura Poitras. Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living under Total Surveillance. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2016. 256 pp. Critical Inquiry, 44(1), 188–195.doi:10.1086/694142 url to share this paper: sci-hub.se/10.1086/694142
While Astro Noise apparently still not liberated... here's a few other tangent, while you download the rest of the 256TB of all human knowledge... http://booksdl.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1080/14680777.2019.1690022&downloadname=&key=7WA43DCK7PZ253P6 Drone feminism: technology, surveillance and entanglement in Laura Poitras' Astro Noise Olivia Khoo School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY This paper considers how women filmmakers are using installation in Received 4 April 2019 gallery spaces to find alternative ways of telling feminist stories. Revised 8 October 2019 Focusing on the exhibition "Astro Noise" by Laura Poitras, best Accepted 30 October 2019 known for her documentaries on Edward Snowden and Julian KEYWORDS Assange, the paper considers how technology and surveillance operate Drones; feminism; in Poitras' exhibition to produce a form of "drone feminism" that surveillance; Laura Poitras; visualises spectatorial engagement and embodiment in the digital art installations age. Might a form of drone feminism applied to migrations from cinema to installation spaces enable us to consider spectatorial inter- activity as a kind of looping or entanglement within practices of feminist storytelling? Why the f*ck am I making long-form documentaries when other ways of working are so much more energizing? I really want to do the installation project of hanging screens in a warehouse. So that entering it is like a torture chamber. Laura Poitras, diary entry dated February 26 2013. Published in catalogue, Laura Poitras: Astro Noise after an exhibition of the same name by Poitras at the Whitney Museum, New York. This essay is a meditation on viewing contexts and exhibition spaces in relation to the production and exhibition of women's film and video making. In particular, it focuses on an exhibition by Laura Poitras, "Astro Noise," to examine how a director previously work- ing in feature filmmaking has turned to "the richly intermedial potential of film, photo- graphy, video and installation" (Jenny Chamarette 2013, 46), and to investigate how women filmmakers are using installation in gallery spaces to find alternative ways of telling feminist stories. There is a growing body of scholarship on what Francesco Cassetti (2012) calls "the relocation of cinema"--to mobile devices, laptops and DVD players, https://susankozel.com/pdf/KozelGibsonMartelli_TheBronzeKey_2018.pdf The Bronze Key is located at the junction where Embodied Interaction opens onto an interdisciplinary domain, taking in politics, performance, data security and legal issues around media privacy [2], [4], [6], [8]. The work is post-digital by playing across the ways human physical interactions are digitally captured and gibsonmartelli.com/portfolio/the-bronze-key/ The Bronze Key - Performing Encryption is the rematerialisation of performance.Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of both performance and digital data, The Bronze Key project takes movement material, digitised from performers using motion capture technology. A thirty second dance phrase is converted into a human readable file format and then encrypted using a single second gesture of the ... https://susankozel.com/pdf/KozelGibsonMartelli_MoCo_2018.pdf http://forskning.mah.se/en/id/kssuko The Bronze Key: Performing and Materializing a Cipher System Susan Kozel Malmö University 205 06 Malmö, Sweden susan.kozel@mau.se Ruth Gibson Gibson/Martelli & Coventry University Coventry, UK ruth@gibsonmaretlli.com Bruno Martelli Gibson/Martelli London, UK The Bronze Key is an art installation where data traces of bodily movement captured in 3D by digital systems are re-materialized into audio, bronze and print. The 3 objects of The Bronze Key represent the performance of the first 3 steps of the basic symmetrical cipher system: The Plaintext, The Key and The Ciphertext(or Cryptogram). Her current book in process is called "Performing Encryption," in which a phenomenology of affect is cultivated to enhance bodily agency in contemporary surveillance cultures. “The Archival Body” lecture, New Human Symposium. “Performing Encryption" Keynote Somatics Conf (UK). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6flkBN0AlY&list=PLjF3DI5gKgustfNVAoFJ9DpsYv0kC5kW9&index=1 Vulnerable data interactions - mau.se https://muep.mau.se/bitstream/handle/2043/26878/TP2_Nicole_Carlsson.pdf Abstract ˜is thesis project opens up an interaction design space in the InfoSec domain concerning raising awareness of common vulnerabilities and facilitating counter practices through seamful design. https://mau.se/en/research/research-programmes/data-society/ "There are advantages and huge potential but also possible harm and great challenges with digitalisation and datafication: the program researchers tackle the complex issues of our data society" --Maria Engberg, Director