Exhibition
Yuri Pattison, '1014' and Joey Holder 'Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network'
02 Dec 2022 – 04 Dec 2022
Broadway Gallery
Nottingham, United Kingdom
OTOKA takes over Broadway Gallery with audio visual installation 'Digital Violence' by Turner Prize nominees Forensic Architecture with sound design by Brian Eno, and an online exhibition of 'Under The Cloud' by James Bridle.
Scene 3: Digital Violence (2021), a global investigation by Turner Prize nominees Forensic Architecture with support from Amnesty International and The Citizen Lab. It examines the cyber-weapons manufacturer NSO Group and its malware Pegasus, a piece of “security” software sold to governments across the world.
Pegasus can enable its operators to infiltrate phones, access personal and location data and surreptitiously control a device’s microphone and camera. In this scene we bear witness to some of 'The Pegasus Stories'; video testimonials - narrated by renowned whistleblower Edward Snowden - of human rights activists whose privacy has been invaded with Pegasus.
A sense of the pervasive application of Pegasus by surveillance states is heightened by an accompanying data sonification, a collaboration with renowned musician and producer Brian Eno
JAMES BRIDLE 'Under the cloud', 2020
Under The Cloud (2020) is a half-hour documentary for BBC Radio 4. The cloud is a fantasy, an idea of connectivity formed from Silicon Valley’s early idealism and the Cold War militarisation of computer networks – freedom and surveillance, respectively – wrapped around the physical networks that came before it: railway tracks, sewer lines, undersea telegraph cables, television circuits. Now it’s the metaphor that dominates an internet of algorithms, machine learning and big data.
How does our haziness about the cloud - what it does, where it is & who controls it – impact our own agency in the digital world? Author and technologist James Bridle navigates the history and politics of the cloud, exploring the power of its metaphor to guide us back down to earth.
Produced by Simon Hollis. A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.
Available online at www.otoka.org
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