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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- If You See Something Say Something: Art, War, Surveillance and the Sustainability of Urgency in the Post 9/11 Era
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Chair Person: Joseph DeLappe
Discussant: Rita RaleyPresenters: Bernadette Buckley, Wafaa Bilal & Hasan Elahi
This panel will provide an opportunity for the examination of politically motivated, media based practices as we move into the second decade after the 9/11 attacks and the resulting War on Terror. The individuals involved in this panel have been instrumental in defining the use and dissemination of tactical media practices that have resonated widely in the cultural sphere by confronting issues of war, memory, terrorism and surveillance. The panel provides a crucial and timely context for these creative practitioners and noted scholars to discuss the efficacy of such ongoing efforts of engagement in works that seek to intervene in our contemporary political context. This will be an opportunity for critical discourse by these panelists and the panel attendees to consider the evolution and adaptation of these ideas in light of the challenges to sustaining a level of urgency in such politically activist creative practice – as conflict, terror and fear have come to typify the status quo.