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PRESENTATIONS

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• Program is still a work in progress - help define afternoon themes!
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The Surveillance Club?!

What?

• Surveillance and civic action - Research for, with and by social activists (A mini-workshop)

When?

• Tuesday March 9, 2009
• 9am-4pm
• Lunch is provided

Where?

• Centre for Social Innovation - Innovation Lab (4th floor)
• 215 Spadina Ave. (map) (directions)

Why?

• Digitally mediated surveillance increasingly encroaches upon everyday life, following us as we work, play and negotiate public spaces, on-line and off. This one-day workshop seeks to brings together activists, artists and academics working on issues relating to cybersurveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. A central concern is to understand better digitally mediated surveillance practices, making them more publicly visible and amenable to democratic resistance or oversight. This participatory gathering offers the chance for networking, intellectual exchange and future collaboration among those in the Toronto area interested in linking surveillance research and social action. While the main aim of the workshop is a broad one - to foster mutually rewarding connections - it also seeks to explore the possibilities for convening a public event/arts exhibition in conjunction with an international research workshop on cybersurveillance to be held in Toronto in May 2011.

• This workshop is guided by the unconference principle: There is no audience – everyone is a participant. The morning will consist of brief participant presentations – a statement of current research or problems, ideas for future collaborations, requests for feedback etc. The afternoon will feature a series of roundtables focused on themes or questions generated by participant interest and the morning's presentations. The closing session will brainstorm ideas for the public event/arts exhibition on cybersurveillance mentioned above.

• This workshop is sponsored by the The New Transparency Project (U of T).

Who?

Add your name to the wiki, with a bio, contact and web info as well as any recent projects, publications or links you'd like to share. Feel free to add an abstract of your presentation or summarize it in a tagline.

• Megan Boler - Critical Media literacy in Times of War
• Andrew Clement - exposing for public view digitally mediated surveillance in everyday life
• Joseph Ferenbok - discussing recent work on faces and Video Analytics in  surveillance regimes.
• Jonathan Goldsbie - reporting on Toronto Police Service's and the Toronto Police Services Board's approaches to public surveillance from 2007-present.
• Jesse Hirsh
• Dave Kemp
• Liav Koren
• Fenwick McKelvey - Charting the politics of traffic management software – how it controls information & how it meets resistance
• Colleen McLay - discussing censorware and surveillance - how to disrupt single-issue rhetorical politics: choosing your terms
• Brenda McPhail - workplace surveillance from workers' perspectives
• Kate Milberry - presenting on activist use of anti-surveillance technologies & practices
• Nancy Paterson - demo'ing IXmaps, a project that illustrates Internet infrastructure focusing on exchange points, especially major internet peering exchange points, as a locus of control. 
• David Phillips
• Karen Smith - presenting on an upcoming group project using Values in Design (http://www.scu.edu/sts/VID/welcome.cfm) approaches to explore Crabgrass (http://crabgrass.riseup.net/) which is software libre for social organizing
• Justin Saunders - Requirements and challenges of radical tech collectives.
• Stuart Trew - discussing a comprehensive report by the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Groupon the state of Canada-U.S. security collaboration on travel watchlists and other security databases.

Regrets:

• Lisa Austin
• Ron Deibert
• Greg Elmer
• Leigh Honeywell
• Graeme Norton

What will you be talking about?

• Feel free to add longer abstracts of your morning presentation here.

• See the draft program. It will be refined as we know better who is attending and what they want to discuss.

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