Dear all, following our 29th conference "Smart Prison: Tracking, Monitoring & Control", we invite you to join us on May 5 at 7.30 pm for the screening of "The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui, at ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin.
“The Feeling of Being Watched" by Assia Boundaoui explores the impact of surveillance on Muslim-American communities in the wake of the War on Terror, and raises important questions about privacy, security, and civil liberties. In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal court to compel them to make the records they collected about her community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family. AFTER THE SCREENING, we invite you to network over drinks at ACUD MACHT NEU, in Berlin-Mitte. This will be an opportunity to connect with others who are interested in the intersection of technology and criminal justice reform, and to share your own insights and perspectives. Please register here (5 Euro ticket): https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/smartprisons-meetup/ More info: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/meet-up-screening-of-the-feeling-of-being-watched Official website: http://www.feelingofbeingwatched.com/ See you there, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
