Title:
Astro noise : a survival guide for living under total surveillance / Laura Poitras ; with an introduction by Jay Sanders and contributions by Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum, Lakhdar Boumedien, Kate Crawford, Alex Danchev, Cory Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Jill Magrid, Trevor Paglen, Edward Snowden, and Hito Steyerl.
Author:
Poitras, Laura, artist.
Sanders, Jay, 1975- writer of introduction.
Ai, Weiwei, writer of added text.
Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution, publisher.
Publication Information:
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2016]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [date of distribution not identified]
©2016
Call Number:
PN1998.3.P647 P65 2016
Abstract:
"Laura Poitras: Astro Noise" is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist Laura Poitras. This immersive installation of new work builds on topics important to Poitras, including mass surveillance, the war on terror, the U.S. drone program, Guantánamo Bay Prison, occupation, and torture. For the exhibition, Poitras is creating an interrelated series of installations in the Whitney's eighth-floor Hurst Family Galleries. The exhibition expands on her project to document post-9/11 America, engaging visitors in formats outside her non-fiction filmmaking. Instead she will create immersive environments that incorporate documentary footage, architectural interventions, primary documents, and narrative structures to invite visitors to interact with the material in strikingly intimate and direct ways. The title, "Astro Noise", refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013. The Snowden archive partially inspired Poitras's presentation at the Whitney. Whitney.org
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ISBN:
9780300217650
Physical Description:
241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
General Note:
Published on the occasion of the the exhibition "Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, " curated by Jay Sanders at the Whitney Museum of American Art, February 5 - May 15, 2016.
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Contents:
The adventure of the extraordinary rendition / We were the other / Surveillance / Berlin journal / Listening to the moons / Astro noise / Circle democracy / Asking the oracle / Letter to a young selector / Medya: autonomy of images / Glossary / 18 USC 371 / Troublemakers: Laura Poitras and the problem of dissent
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