Selected Events 2001-2

Live from the USA: Le Corbusier 1935

Conference: May 11, 2001
Presentations by Mardges Bacon, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, José Oubrerie, Nina Rosenblatt, and Mark Wigley
Organized by Beatriz Colomina

Watching Watching: Surveillance and/as Cinema

Film Series: October 2001 - January 2002
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, UK: 1954); Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK: 1966); The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA: 1974); Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, UK: 1960); I Only Wish That I Could Weep (Walid Raad, Lebanon/USA: 2001); The Truman Show (Peter Weir, USA: 1998); The Apple Macintosh (Ridley Scott, USA: 1984); 1984 (Surveillance Camera Players, USA: 1998); Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, UK: 1984); Window of Opportunity (Sabine Kammerl, Germany: 2001); Ocularis: Eye Surrogates (Tran T. Kim-Trang, USA: 1997); Search (Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup, UK: 1993); Der Riese [The Giant] (Michael Klier, Germany: 1983); Enemy of the State (Tony Scott, USA: 1998); Citizen Cam (Jérôme Scemla, France: 2000); An American Family (Susan and Alan Raymond, PBS TV:1973); The Beating of Rodney King (Amateur Video, USA: 1991); Time Code (Mike Figgis, USA: 2000) Organized by Thomas Y. Levin

Anxious Omniscience: Surveillance and Contemporary Cultural Practice

Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum: January 19th to March 31st, 2002
Works by Harun Farocki, Laura Kurgan, Denis Beaubois, the Surveillance Camera Players, the Institute for Applied Autonomy, Spike Jonze, Merry Alpern, David Deutsch, Jenny Marketou, and the Radical Software Group
Exhibition design by Bethia Liu and technical consulting by Niraj Bhatt
Curated by Thomas Y. Levin

Anxious Omniscience: The Aesthetic Politics of the Arts of Surveillance

Lecture/discussion with curator Thomas Y. Levin and artists participating in the exhibition: February 2nd, 2002

Eye/Machine

Lecture and screening with filmmaker Harun Farocki: March 1st, 2002

A Conversation on the Art of Gerhard Richter

Roundtable discussion: April 23rd, 2002
Organized by Hal Foster