GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP

Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Curator: Bernhard Serexhe, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Artists: aaajiao, Hamra Abbas, Selma Alaçam, Halil Altindere, Daniel G. Andújar, Osman Bozkurt, James Bridle, Alice Cavoukdjian dite Galli, Hasan Elahi, Michael Grudziecki, KIT KASTEL, Jonathon Keats, Karel Koplimets, Frédéric Krauke, Marc Lee, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Erik Mátrai, Gerardo Nolasco, Chris Oakley, Ruben Pater, Dan Perjovschi, Axel Philipp, Ma Qiusha, Oliver Ressler, Bernhard Serexhe, Christian Sievers, SKATKA, Louisa Marie Summer, Kota Takeuchi, Wilko Thiele, Ivar Veermäe, Alex Wenger & Max-Gerd Retzlaff
29.04.2017 - 18.06.2017
https://www.goethe.de/


Security First - Tallinn Art Hall

Art Hall, Tallinn

Global Control and Censorship @ TALLINN ART HALL

In collaboration with the Goethe-Institute and ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Tallinn Art Hall will present the international exhibition Global Control and Censorship, which will look at the unrelenting encroachment of surveillance and censorship into our everyday lives. Using personal stories and comments by close to forty artists we will be given, on the one hand, a glimpse into the more or less invisible violence perpetrated by the authorities towards citizens, and on the other hand, advice as to what an individual can do against this.


Exhibited Artwork


Pic-Me - Fly to the Locations Where Users Send Posts

Online Project for Interactive Media Art Installations

With Pic-Me you can virtually fly to the locations from where users send randomly selected posts to Instagram, thus creating another view on how the media handles posts on social networks. One might describe these posts – images or short videos accompanied by comments, tags and geolocalisation – as a kind of digital small talk or personal conversation. Different than face to face conversations more …


SECURITY FIRST

Mixed Media Installation

In this installation, Marc Lee shows the wonderful world of surveillance technology. On a shelf are cameras in all possible forms: hidden spy cams, surveillance cams, night vision webcams, real-looking dummy cams. As a counter-design to the utopia of total security through camera surveillance, Lee shows the website insecam.org: The visitors of the website have access to the images of thousands more …