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Message from the Director Issue 3, August 2010

We’re delighted to update you with this issue of NewT News. I don't have to add anything to the details. They speak for themselves. The past In this Issue: year has been an extremely busy but also satisfying one as we have seen the fruits of our research collaboration mature and flourish. The Message from the Director workshops, the books, the completed dissertations, the academic 1 advancement and other markers all exude evidence of that. I The ‘Security Games’ Workshop congratulate the team for your achievements and for your ongoing Report work, new network configurations and your commitment to both high By Adam Molnar quality research and to well-placed research communication. 2 What strikes me particularly as I write is the timely nature of our work. Exhibiting Surveillance Every week, sometimes each day, newscasts include surveillance items By Jan Allen that demand our attention and indeed, are often accompanied by 3 comment from one team member or another. In the global north, the The Surveillance Studies Summer fall-out from 9/11 continues to bolster security states and thus drive the Seminar 2009 surveillance industry. In the global south, much commercial as well as By Jimena Valdés Figueroa global north pressure is placed on countries to adopt surveillance 4 techniques as part of their modernizing drives. Some surveillance serves Publications the cause of human rights and civil liberties but much, at the present 5 - 7 time, does not. Thus the ethical and political dimensions of our research Team News and Resources become ever more critical, as seen for example in the Statement following the recent Surveillance Games workshop. These are 7 - 9 serious challenges for academics as well as activists and finding the best Upcoming Events ways forward will once again draw on our collaborative skills and 9 wisdom. I know that you are up for it!

David Lyon

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The ‘Security Games’ Workshop Report: November 20-21, 2009, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver

By Adam Molnar protest and associated surveillance practices in the lead- jurisdictional challenges; and up to the Vancouver 2010 Winter As the recent G8/G20 summit RCMP and CSIS “visits” to Olympic Games. The closing of unfolded into , media political critics are just a handful the workshop also presented an headlines on mega-event of the issues appearing in media opportunity to draft a collective security appears to be and public discussions. Mega- political statement that led to repeating itself. Just five months event security issues have found considerable public crossover. following the largest peacetime new local expression, this time security operation in Canadian 3300km from the site of where The workshop opened with history, the Vancouver 2010 ‘Security Games’ Workshop Assistant Privacy Commissioner, Olympic Games was eclipsed by participants gathered to address Chantal Bernier, joined by (the the G20 operations in Toronto many of these very same issues. now former) B.C. Privacy that featured a reemergence of Commissioner David Loukidelis, familiar, though more Delivered by members of the and civil liberties advocates contentious issues: the chiding of New Transparency Project, and Micheal Vonn (BCCLA) and the exorbitant $1billion dollar in association with Simon Fraser Olympic critic Chris Shaw on the price tag for security; the uses of University’s (SFU) Centre for opening panel, setting a context new surveillance technologies Policy Research on Science and for the workshop that and their contested legal status; Technology, the ‘Security foregrounded local challenges new strategies of policing public Games’ Workshop held on involving civil liberties and November 20-21, 2009 at the SFU privacy rights at Vancouver Harbour Centre in Vancouver, 2010. Research participants were BC, presented an important able to use this local empirical opportunity for discussions on backdrop as a touchstone for security, surveillance and mega- cross-historical comparisons events. The workshop’s involving events such as Athens successes were largely 2004, Torino 2006 and the attributable to the participants’ upcoming 2012 Summer broad range of international Games. Theoretical questions at backgrounds and involvements the workshop addressed the surrounding mega-event relation between what emerged security, including academics, as the common transnational public sector representatives, dimensions of mega-event NGO reps, and community security, such as knowledge- activists. The range of sharing in policy communities, participants and their various strategies for policing public interests were reflected through protest, the political economy of a workshop featuring a rich mega-event security with their array of theoretical and historical localized manifestations at Photo by Joan Sharpe comparisons and an art particular mega-events. Panel G: Security and Surveillance exhibition expressing the often in Vancouver 2010 powerful aesthetic dimensions The ‘Security Games’ conference related to how urban space is Left to Right: Philip Boyle, Laureen Snider, Continued on page 5 Adam Molnar and Martin French recoded through security and

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Issue 3, August 2010 lorem ipsum issue #, date Exhibiting Surveillance features convex surveillance mirrors arranged on the wall as Braille cells spelling out 18th-century moral philosopher Adam Smith’s optimistic formulation of capitalism.

Other works focus on data-capture systems. Dave Kemp’s Data Collection (2009) is a photographic grid of “portraits” of the identity cards carried in the wallets of volunteer research subjects. This project registers changing attitudes, from a conception of identity as a private object of value to be closely controlled, to identity as a network of affiliations Hidden Camera 2006, by Kathleen Ritter that is enhanced/actualized through use, permeable By Jan Allen This artist work transforms an accessory and in constant flux. Soliciting cards that into a surveillance tool represented connections to databases, Kemp Visual and media artists have kept pace with the developed this piece in affiliation with Dr Andrew emerging surveillance society, scrutinizing its Clement and the Performing Identities research social, political and aesthetic dimensions. Tapping cluster at the University of Toronto. David Rokeby’s into this phenomenon, the Agnes Etherington Art Sorting Daemon (2003) snares visual data: the images Centre, in partnership with The New of unsuspecting passersby are sent to a “theatre” Transparency, developed the exhibition Sorting where they are tugged apart to disturbingly Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control. beautiful effect. Rokeby has cannily made colour his The show, featuring sixteen Canadian and system’s criterion, a choice both irrational and international artists, presented work in a range of charged in its reference to race. media, from painting and photography to responsive electronic works at this Queen’s Sorting Daemons includes a continuous-run 3-part University gallery and its sister space, the Union compilation of artists’ video spanning 1981−2004 Gallery in Kingston. Jan Allen and Sarah E.K. Smith offering an overview of surveillance-related themes, curated the exhibition, which took place from 16 from security and popular culture to self-control January to 18 April 2010. and the complex entwining of anxiety and allure that such systems entail. A 72-page illustrated Each work in Sorting Daemons is a “research” publication under the same title, with essays by Jan statement based on the artist’s response to Allen, Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, was surveillance technologies and effects. Tran T. Kim- released at the launch of the exhibition in January. Trang’s astonishing 1997 video Ocularis: Eye A tour of the exhibition is now under development. Surrogates is among the most moving works in the show. The artist solicited first-person accounts of Jan Allen is the Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art, Agnes individual’s experiences, perceptions and fantasies Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University. of surveillance through a temporary 1-800 number. If you are interested in receiving more information about the travelling exhibit, The power of these at times bizarre stories is please contact Jan Allen at [email protected]. amplified by the intimacy of the unscripted recordings. In another video work, Brooklyn artist For more information about the exhibition, see: http://www.aeac.ca/exhibitions/upcoming/daemons.html Jill Magid’s Evidence Locker: Trust (2004) probes Liverpool’s famously thorough Citywatch system The show was held in conjunction with ‘Camera Surveillance in : A by instigating encounters with camera operators, Research Workshop’: http://www.sscqueens.org/projects/scan/workshop/program humorously confusing the flow of authority. In a subtle but pointedly political piece, Antonia As well as the official launch of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s Hirsch’s the invisible hand (after Adam Smith) (2009) University: http://www.sscqueens.org/

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The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar 2009

By Jimena Valdés Figueroa Well let´s talk about the Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, which was also such an May 2009 was a very special month for me, experience! because I travelled to Kingston ON, in order to attend the Surveillance Studies Summer On the first day David Lyon introduced the Seminar. group, which was composed of scholars and researchers from Canada, Australia, Brazil, The The first “experience” on my trip was the little United States, UK, Ireland, Turkey and Mexico airplane flight from Toronto to Kingston, it was and also from different disciplines such as such an adventure! First because you can see philosophy, sociology, communications and such amazing Canadian landscapes from the engineering. I think that the possibility to share planes’ window, but also because seeing the opinions and research experiences with people complete landing is a little bit scary. with different interests was a great approach of Weather conditions were another issue that the Seminar. Kevin Haggerty and Kirstie Ball, surprised me, everybody in Canada was also introduced themselves and their research enjoying the beginning of the summer with interests, and from that moment I was really something like 0 to 15 degrees C, while in interested on Ball´s approach about surveillance México we have those temperatures in what we and subjectivity and Haggerty´s on the post call a “hard winter”, so just a different panopticon. perception! Then we participated in a really great group Walking through Kingston was like being in a activity: the scavenger hunt, with this activity 19th Century scenario, such a beautiful city, I we could “explore” Queen´s University (such an must confess that sometimes I couldn’t believe inspiring place), Kingston´s downtown that real people lived in the beautiful aged emblematic places but also we could interact houses surrounding Skeleton Park, with their Continued Page 6 nice gardens in SSSS the front filled Participants with coloured flowers and trees 2009 in blossom. Front Row (Left to Right): Liliane Nascimento, Bryan Sluggett, Alanur Cavlin- I also loved the Bosbeyoglu, Adam Molnar, Jimena Valdés Figueroa, Kingstonian Vanessa L. Lara Crmona, and bakery, their Robba Abbas. rhubarb pie is Back Row (Left to Right): Roberto J. Fuentes Rionda, great, but also André Mondoux, John amazing were my Cheney-Lippold, Kirstie Ball, Joseph Ferenbok, Kjetil friends that Rommetveit, Keith Spiller, shared their Daniel Trottier, Christopher Parsons, Kevin Haggerty and rhubarb dishes David Lyon. with me! Photo by Joan Sharpe

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Workshop Report (Continued) exceeded convention as a at Vancouver’s Interurban workshop that places Gallery and followed by a Congratulations to boundaries around the academic reception. Echoing Foucault’s team members on the community. Riding the crest of revision of the Debordian following publications: an increase in critical media metaphor of the spectacle, the art coverage regarding surveillance exhibition sought to recast Elia Zureik, L. and the Vancouver 2010 Games, Foucault’s claim that “our Lynda Harling on the final day of the sessions, society is not one of spectacle, Stalker, Emily workshop participants from six but of surveillance”, by Smith, David Lyon different countries formed “The presenting the realm of and Yolande E. Vancouver Statement of aesthetics and imagination to lay Chan (eds) (June Surveillance, Security and bare the complex affective layers 2010) Surveillance, Privacy and the Privacy”, which called on the and paradoxes that, oftentimes, only the visual can most Globalization of governments of Canada and Personal Information: powerfully reveal. British Columbia to withdraw International temporary bylaws that restrict Comparisons, freedom of speech and A forthcoming edited volume by McGill-Queen’s assembly, to be open about Kevin Haggerty and Colin University Press. security and surveillance Bennett Security Games will practices and rationales, to work include a range of papers from Kevin Haggerty with federal and provincial the workshop. It is to be and Minas privacy commissioners’, to published by Routledge and is Samatas (eds) (June 2010) respect the rights of all local or due for release in early 2011 (see http://www.routledge.com/books Surveillance and visiting individuals and groups, Democracy, to conduct an independent post- /details/9780415602624/). Routledge- Games analysis of security costs Cavendish. and effectiveness, and prevent a Adam Molnar is a PhD Candidate at legacy of “increased video the University of Victoria. Stephen surveillance and hardened Graham (May security measures” in place of For more on the workshop, see: 2010) Cities “democracy, transparency and http://www.sscqueens.org/events/surv_ Under Siege: accountability”. The Vancouver games The New Statement expanded to include a Military large number of signatories And the ‘Vancouver Statement’: Urbanism, from around the world. http://www.sscqueens.org/Vancouver_S Verso. tatement After wrapping up on the final Torin Monahan day of the workshop, (March 2010) participants explored the Surveillance in the Time of powerful aesthetic dimensions Insecurity- of surveillance and mega-events Rutgers at a local art installation called University “Surveilling Public Space: Press. Perspectives on Spectacle,” led by students from SFU’s Department of Communication Photo by Joan Sharpe Participants at the Workshop Venue

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SSSS 2009 (Continued) with our colleagues, that was implications of surveillance in the beginning of great the construction of a Publications continued: discussions and also normalized ageing subject. friendships. This was a good development Helen of interdisciplinary work and Nissenbaum (December An important discussion held also a great opportunity for 2009) Privacy in in the Seminar was the learning the different ways of Context: differences between identity thinking about ageing from Technology, and identification, but also different cultural, social and Policy and the their conformation in politic backgrounds. Integrity of Social Life- Stanford processes such as the University institutional identification of So, I think that all of the Press. a person and the positive talking points of the Seminar position of a subject based on were full of new ways of Oscar Gandy (December institutional criteria. From thinking about the surveillance 2009) Coming to these discussions some implications in institutions, Terms with questions were raised like: public policies, governments Chance: Which social processes are but also in peoples’ lives, and Engaging promoted by identification? also those discussions Rational Discrimination What are the possibilities for provided great research tools and Cumulative a subject in approaching for going away from what Disadvantage- surveillance? How do David Lyon called Ashgate. subjects configure their “surveillance easy critique”. Torin Monahan identification? and Rodolfo D. I really want to thank all the Torres Another important approach efforts of the Surveillance (November 2009) of the Summer Seminar, was Studies Team, for giving us the Schools Under the exploration of “the chance to learn a lot from their Surveillance: Cultures of subject of surveillance”. Here academic developments, but Control in Public we talked about the also for showing us that Education- performative layers of learning and working can be Rutgers surveillance and also about delicious experiences. University Press. the experiences of being under surveillance. Jimena Valdés Figueroa is a Master’s Candidate in Gender The dynamics that I enjoyed Studies at El Colegio de México A.C. the most were the Session Groups, because we were The third biennial Surveillance Studies able to implement the Summer Seminar will be held May 16- 21 2011, at Queen’s University in surveillance studies Kingston and led by David Lyon, David framework in an everyday Murakami Wood and Valerie Steeves. life case study. For example, For more information, see: in my group we developed a http://www.sscqueens.org/event/ssss11 Photo by Jimena Valdés Figueroa project around the SSSS Banquet Dinner at Fort Henry in Kingston 6 lorem ipsum issue #, date Issue 3, August 2010

Team News CONGRATULATIONS Criminologie Comparée (CICC) at the University of Publications continued: Kevin Haggerty who has been Montreal, passed away on 26 promoted to full at April 2010. the . David Lyon PARTNERSHIPS (October 2009) David Murakami Wood on his Identifying Citizens: ID new position as Canada Successful applications to the Cards as Research Chair (Tier 2), Office of the Privacy Surveillance, Associate Professor of Commissioner’s Polity Press. Surveillance Studies, Contributions Program Department of Sociology, include: the Surveillance Queen’s University, Kingston, Studies Centre at Queen’s Christine Bellamy, Perri 6, and Ontario, Canada. University, $50,000.00 to Charles Raab (October 2009) Partnership and Privacy in the study The Private Sector, Information State: Tension and Stéphane Leman-Langlois on National Security and Settlement in Policy and Practice, his new position as Canada Personal Data; University of Palgrave-Macmillan. Research Chair on Surveillance Toronto for $48,000.00 to and the Social Construction of study A Privacy Protective Risk, Professor of Ciminology, Nelson Artaega Botello (June "Proportionate ID Digital 2009) Sociedad de la vigilancia en School of Social Work, Laval Wallet" for Canadians: Open Sur-Global (Surveillance Society University, City. Prototyping and Public in the Global South) Mexico, Policy Alternatives; and Miguel Angel Porrua and Katja Franko Aas on University of Toronto for UAEM. becoming full professor at the $50,000.00 to study "Smart" Institute of Criminology and Private Eyes in Public Have a book or article to Sociology of Law, University Places? Video Surveillance announce? Email of Oslo, Norway Analytics, New Privacy [email protected] Threats and Protective Vida Bajc, NewT post-doc at Alternatives. See: Queen’s University 2008-2009, http://www.sscqueens.org/news/ on her new position as congrats-on-opc-funding Assistant Professor of Sociology at Methodist Torin Monahan and Priscilla University, North Carolina, Regan have received a 2-year USA National Science Foundation http://www.methodist.edu/sociolo grant to study DHS “fusion gy/faculty.htm centres”, which are U.S. entities that coordinate data LIVES LIVED sharing with the primary Photo by Tim Forbes (stated) aim of stopping Jean-Paul Brodeur, NewT The New Surveillance Studies terrorism. This research will team member and the Director Centre Visual Identity contribute directly to IRSP 1. of the Centre International de

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WELCOME NEW NEWTS begin a PhD in Management ID Cards website at the Open University launched: Sarah Cheung joins the NewT Business School at the http://www.identity-cards.net/ team as Research Associate at Milton Keynes Campus in Queen’s University, replacing October 2010, in conjunction Deep Packet Inspection Emily Smith for one year of with NewT and funded by Website launched by Colin maternity leave (August 2010- SSHRC and the Open Bennett and Christopher 2011), she can be reached at: University’s Charter Parsons: [email protected] Studentship Scheme. Very http://www.deeppacketinspecti broadly her research will on.ca/ Gavin Smith has become a focus on the public and NewT collaborator, see: private sector drivers behind SCAN part I and II reports http://www.sscqueens.org/the- recent innovations in the available online at: new- market for personal data in http://www.sscqueens.org/proj transparency/people/collaborators/ ects/scan #smith Spain and the UK. New NewT publications Kate Milbery joined NewT as RESOURCES page, which contains a a post-doctoral fellow in the selection of books by New Faculty of Information at the A new Surveillance Studies Transparency team University of Toronto in the Centre (SSC) has been members, at: fall of 2009. Kate is working granted provisional http://www.sscqueens.org/publ with Andrew Clement and approval as a faculty-based ications will be taking a lead role in centre, which will replace organizing the international and build upon the former Surveillance & Society- workshop on digitally Surveillance Project and http://www.surveillance-and- mediated surveillance to be expand the research society.org/ojs/ recent issues: held at the University of program. A new website 6(4) Gender Sexuality and Toronto in May 2011. See: was launched in January Surveillance, edited by http://www.sscqueens.org/the- 2010: http://www.sscqueens.org Kirstie Ball, David J. new-transparency/people/postdocs Phillips, Nicola Green and Hille Koskela (October Daniel Trottier is the 2009); 7(1) Open Issue, post-doc in the edited by David Department of Sociology, Murakami Wood University of Alberta, (January 2009); 7(2) working under IRSP III Surveillance Performance on the Surveillance and New Media, edited Consequences of 9/11, by John McGrath and and led by Kevin D. Robert Sweeny (June Haggerty (University of 2010), 7(3) Surveillance, Alberta) and Arthur Children and Childhood, Cockfield (Queen’s Photo by Tim Forbes edited by Valerie University). Queen’s Daniel Woolf and SSC Director Steeves and Owain Sara Degli Esposti will David Lyon at the official launch of the Surveillance Jones (July 2010). Studies Centre, January 15, 2010.

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Team News (Continued) Surveillance & Society: Society, special conference groups and partners, Coming soon: Open Issue, issue, deadline September 30 released the report Watch Edited by David 2010. Lists and Boarder Controls Murakami Wood (August (February 2010) 2010), Surveillance, Report to the Information http://www.travelwatchlist.ca Marketing and Commissioner’s Office in French Consumption, Edited by (ICO) UK, an analysis of http://www.surveillancedesvoye Jason Pridmore and Detlev developments since the urs.ca in English Zwick (October 2010), and Surveillance Society report Surveillance and produced by the The ‘Alphonse Bertillon and Empowerment, edited by Surveillance Studies research the Identification of Person, Torin Monahan, David Network, 15 June 2010. 1880-1914’ Project: English Murakami Wood, and version: http://www.criminocorpus.cnrs. David J. Phillips The International Civil fr/bertillon/entrée.html French Liberties Monitoring Group (November 2010) http://criminocorpus.cnrs.fr/ber (ICLMG), in cooperation tillon.enter_uk.html English Calls- A Global Surveillance with other civil liberties

Photo by Joan Sharpe Reception at the art installation held in conjunction with the Surveillance Games workshop: “Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle,” led by students from SFU’s Department of Communication at Vancouver’s Interurban Gallery

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Upcoming Events

The Political Economy of Surveillance Studies Surveillance (IRSP I) Summer Seminar (SSSS) 9-11 September 2010 16-20 May 2011 Open University, UK Queen’s University, ON, Funded by Canada The New Transparency and Led by David Lyon, David ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ Murakami Wood and Valerie EU COST Action Steeves Co-organized by Kirstie Ball For more information see: (Open University Business http://www.sscqueens.org/event/sss School) and Laureen Snider s11 (Queen’s University) See: The Rise of Surveillance http://www.sscqueens.org/events/O Society: Ten Years after U_workshop 9/11 (IRSP III) Queen’s University, ON, Cyber Surveillance (IRSP II) Canada and Ottawa, ON, 12-15 May 2011 Canada University of Toronto, ON, 7-10 September 2011 Canada Co-organized by Arthur Co-organized by Andrew Cockfield, Kevin Haggerty, Clement and Colin Bennett with David Lyon and Valerie Steeves post-doc Kate Milbery See: For the events calendar, go to: http://www.sscqueens.org/events/cy http://www.sscqueensu.org/project/t bersurveillance he-new- http://cybersurveillanceworkshop.wo transparency/events/calendar rdpress.com/

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