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Announcement of a screening program: Forensic Oceanography
Last September 14 our student Gwynne Fulton introduced Sea of Images, a program of short films that investigates the visual geopolitics of oceans. The program features works by artists and researchers including Forensic Oceanography, Emilija Škarnulytė, Ayesha Hameed, Filipa César and Louis Henderson that consider the connections between visual technologies of maritime surveillance, borders and migration, historical memory and witnessing. Organized in conjunction with the Concordia-Penn Graduate Student Conference "Counterpublics," this program launched Slought's new Mediatheque space.
The works presented in this program explore connections between optical apparatuses of surveillance, history and memory, violence and visibility, suggesting a series of overlapping questions: What is the forensic status of images? How have technologies of surveillance—from modern navigation and cartography through networked satellites and aperture radio—produced the sea, rather than merely representing it? How have they been deployed by mobile practices of maritime governance to police offshore borders? And how can they be repurposed to bear witness to the ocean's subaltern stories?