{"title":"Disruptive exhibitionism - a performance methodology for surveillance art","authors":"Julia Chan, Stéfy McKnight","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2209685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2209685","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent years have seen an increase in work that critically names surveillance as a colonial logic, technology, and practice (see Browne 2015; Maynard 2017; Cahill 2019; Cahill 2021). To contribute to this turn, we propose ‘disruptive exhibitionism,’ a theoretical and methodological concept for surveillance performance art developed through the lenses of anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and queer positivity that center practices of care and pleasure as forms of resistance against surveillance structured by the violence and exploitation of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. The aim of this article is to develop disruptive exhibitionism as a methodology for surveillance performance art and research-creation that offers a way for marginalized identities and bodies to engage with visibility, where public visibility may be fraught or even dangerous. Disruptive exhibitionism builds on Koskela’s (2004) important concept of ‘empowering exhibitionism,’ which suggests that individuals might resist surveillance by using surveillant technologies to self-represent and publicly ‘expose’ oneself voluntarily. Disruptive exhibitionism expands empowering exhibitionism to consider (a) those subjectivities and bodies whose public visibility has been erased and/or rendered dangerous and (b) how contemporary corporate culture, white feminism, and postfeminism have co-opted ‘empowerment’ (Banet-Weiser 2018; Beck 2021).","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130546374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical propaganda as enabling device of the surveillance apparatus – decolonizing and anarchiving non-fiction at the eye film museum archive","authors":"Paula Albuquerque","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2207798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2207798","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Western gaze instituted by the cinematographic apparatus constructs racialized subjects and supports processes of dispossession. My present transmedial artistic research project engages with the biopolitics of representation in archival film material, from a decolonial perspective. By drawing from academic and non-academic sources on relations between colonialism, capitalism, and technologies of control, this paper studies manifestations of surveillance in non-fiction film, to analyze the sub-genre of medical propaganda in former European colonies. Moreover, it proposes to scrutinize the long-term impact colonial cinema and its structures of representation had and still have on processes of subjectification, haunting present-day gender and race-determined profiling by mainstream film, CCTV, and drones.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115986519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surveillance frontierism: art and the colonial project of surveillance","authors":"Susan Cahill","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2212099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2212099","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse Shaheer Tarar’s artwork Jack Pine (2019) to question how settler colonialism is produced and reproduced through surveillant visualisations of the land. Specifically, I explore how Tarar’s representations of surveillant images of the land critically engages with historical and ongoing narratives of white settlement in the Canadian territory. As such, I ask: what knowledges are produced through looking at the land with a surveillant lens? And how does art reveal, trouble, challenge, and resist these knowledges? The underlying premise of my discussion is that surveillance and colonialism are twin logics, that they work in reciprocity to define ownership, extraction, and histories of the land that naturalise white settlement. In centralising Tarar’s art installation as producing new ways of understanding this context, I explore how surveillance art here can reveal the relationship between settler colonial histories and surveillant viewing through how they imagine and represent the land.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114261936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Live visuals: history, theory, practice","authors":"R. Hanney","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2207799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2207799","url":null,"abstract":"interactive documentary might take. The final chapter, written by a collective of Indigenous and Caribbean women, draws together many of the book’s themes including parallels between Indigenous knowledge, human and non-human agency, interspecies relationality, and interactive documentary networks. While a critique of Interactive Documentary: Decolonising Practice-Based Research could be levelled at the varying degrees to which the chapters expand our understanding of the key concepts of interactive documentary, decolonisation and practice-based research, this is also its strength. The chapters, which invariably range from the more theoretical to the practice-based, and from traditional essays to interviews, create a sense of the polyphony that Aston and Odorico champion in their early chapter. The majority of documentary scholarship continues to be written from the dominant centres of cultural production. This volume, then, makes a necessary contribution to the ever-evolving documentary project with lesser theorised projects from the Global South and beyond, and with some of the strongest contributions grounded in embodied experience. These perspectives provide much needed insights into how documentary can increasingly be used as a tool for centring non-Western knowledge systems.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130128481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Denormalising surveillance through curation in Face Value: Surveillance and Identity in the Age of Digital Face Recognition","authors":"R. Wevers","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2210425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2210425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In spite of a range of fundamental issues, biometric surveillance has become an integral part of everyday life. Artists are creating a range of creative responses to the emergence of biometric control that critically interrogate and denormalise it. Most of the existing research in this topic however ignores the exhibitionary context in which surveillance art is usually experienced. This article shifts the analytical perspective to the site of the exhibition in order to attend to the specificity of the artworks’ critical potential – that is influenced by their spatial and narrative context, as well as their juxtaposition with each other. Specifically, it analyses the exhibition Face Value: Surveillance and Identity in the Age of Digital Facial Recognition (2021) as an exemplary case study to discuss how exhibitions can construct a multi-faceted framework through which visitors can get a grip of the ‘society of control’. Drawing on Pisters and Deleuze, this article argues that exhibitions can engender a constellation of ‘circuit breakers’ in which the biometric control of faces is disrupted through a configuration of artistic strategies. In Face Value, these strategies include exposing the black-boxed structures of facial recognition software, showing the human stories behind data and imagining alternative technologies.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131961740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shama, an insider looking in: a community-centred collaborative documentary production","authors":"Arezou Zalipour, James L. Nicholson","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2180711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2180711","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, we analyse and reflect on the complex interweaving of documentary strategies and the five levels of performance that we designed in a small-scale community-centred collaborative documentary project entitled Shama. Shama Ethnic Women’s Trust is one of the first NGOs in New Zealand established and run by ethnic migrant women for ethnic women and their families. Applying a filmmaking-as-research methodology, the project’s aim was to respond to the scarcity of screen representation of ethnic NGOs. The purpose was not only to convey information about Shama’s activities and services but also to convey a sense of the internal culture of the NGO and its community spirit. The portrayal of minority groups in community production often leads to an outsider-looking-down approach. We felt that providing an insider view was more important than simply conveying the facts efficiently about the organisation. This goal led us to apply a collaborative documentary practice, avoid an expository style, characterised by a single authoritative voice, and opt for a mix of performative and observational strategies, in which multiple voices and modes of address are featured. By shifting modes of address, we explored the ways in which a short, no-budget documentary could represent the complexity of this NGO.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131368225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Fierens, Hedwig de Smaele, D. Domingo, Florence Le Cam, Karin Raeymaeckers, Martina Temmerman, Floriane Tixier
{"title":"Ethics as the backbone of the professional identity of Belgian journalism interns","authors":"Maria Fierens, Hedwig de Smaele, D. Domingo, Florence Le Cam, Karin Raeymaeckers, Martina Temmerman, Floriane Tixier","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2192575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2192575","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analyzes the perceptions of professional ethics expressed by Belgian – both Francophone and Flemish – journalism students after their first internships. 13 focus groups including 59 students from 7 universities were organized. These young journalists detailed how ethics play a central role in the development of their professional identity, during their first professional experience. Results show that both Flemish and French-speaking journalists share a relative homogenous vision of journalistic ethics. Eventually, this article offers the foundations for further research dedicated to the professional identity of young professional Belgian journalists, beyond any stereotypes or allegedly linguistic characteristics.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129972721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons for screen production pedagogy from pandemic-era experiences of teaching online","authors":"C. Henry, Milan Maric","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2188345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2188345","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Screen production educators throughout Australasia pivoted to online and remote teaching as the Covid-19 pandemic restricted face-to-face teaching. Teachers’ experiences in 2020–2021 are instructive for the lessons we can learn about effective online teaching for this typically hands-on and collaborative field. This article presents an analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with nine screen production educators working across nine universities and film schools in Australia and New Zealand. The insights gathered through these interviews point to the challenges specific to teaching screen production online, particularly related to students acquiring skills in operating professional equipment and collaborating as a crew with their peers. Interviewees found some surprising value and possibilities during their adaptation to this mode under pandemic conditions but generally experienced it as unsuitable for the discipline and for students’ successful acquisition of the suite of core skills. The swiftly adapted teaching practices undertaken in this period have helped to elucidate the possibilities and significant limitations of online teaching, as well as the needs and satisfaction levels of both staff and students when teaching and learning in this mode.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130832967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smartphone filmmaking: theory and practice","authors":"Darcy Yuille","doi":"10.1080/25741136.2023.2188516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2188516","url":null,"abstract":"viewer which is able to almost fully obscure the screen as a mediator between interactions. These four main chapters cover a substantial breadth of critical theory, methods and case studies, although attention must be drawn to the Afterword, which develops the discussion on touchscreens and COVID-19 from Chapter 2. While there has certainly been scholarship on the threat of public ‘touch’ surfaces recently, White focuses on the changing feelings toward touch and new cultural anxieties about the representation of touching. The real strength of the book is the comprehensive application of a multitude of feminist scholars’ theories in relation to digital technology and culture. It should prove to be a valuable resource for theoretically acquainted scholars and students of internet, digital culture, popular culture and media settings alike. The series of detailed themes and issues related to touchscreens that make up the book are clearly demonstrated through a variety of case studies. Through these demonstrations and the feminist frameworks the book manages to accomplish every aspect it aims to achieve.","PeriodicalId":206409,"journal":{"name":"Media Practice and Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124950005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}