[resource-net] Reminder: Opening of James Bridle's The Glomar Response at NOME

[Manuela Benetton]

Dear List,
here is a kind reminder for the opening of James Bridle
<http://booktwo.org/james-bridle/>'s first solo exhibition* The Glomar
Response*, today at 6pm at NOME gallery.
I hope to see many of you there.
Manuela


James Bridle – *The Glomar Response*
25 July – 5 September 2015
Opening: 24 July, 6 pm

NOME <http://www.nomeproject.com>
Dolzigerstr. 31
10247 Berlin

FB <https://www.facebook.com/events/911370355567899/>

With *The Glomar Response*, NOME presents James Bridle’s first solo show in
Germany.

Immigration, politics and surveillance, as well as the intersections of
technology with older forms of imperial power constitute the main axes of
the show.

The ‘Glomar response’ was formulated in 1975 by the U.S. Government, and
refers to the prerogative of power to “neither confirm nor deny” the
existence of information. In the shadow of this statement is all of the
uncertainty of contemporary life: the ever-increasing opacity of political
and social processes accelerated by computer code and secret law is
countered by the growing ability of individuals and activists to use those
same networked technologies to investigate and act with ever greater agency.

The exhibition presents a series of works that use computer code,
investigative journalism, and visualization to explore hidden spaces and
classified information.

*Seamless Transitions*, commissioned by The Photographer’s Gallery, London,
is a simulacrum of three unphotographable sites of immigration judgment,
detention and deportation in the UK: the Special Immigration Appeals Court,
designed for the presentation of secret evidence; Harmondsworth Detention
Center, a privately run prison outside of London; and the Inflite Jet
Center, a private terminal at Stansted Airport. Reconstructed from planning
documents and eyewitness accounts, the film uses architectural
visualization to portray physical space and the complex legal and social
framework which generates it.

*The Fraunhofer Lines* are a new series of visualizations from a variety of
sources, including the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
and the UK Information Commissioner’s reports on automated police
surveillance. These documents, released following Freedom of Information
requests, have been analyzed with computer vision to reveal the extent of
redaction and the discrepancies between different documents. They are named
and patterned after the gaps in the sun’s spectra discovered in 1814 by
German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, which both revealed the absence of
certain frequencies of light reaching the earth’s surface and pointed
toward new methods of analysis and understanding.

*Waterboarded Documents* presents a series of research documents
surrounding the operation of websites and domains linked to the British
Indian Ocean Territory, an archipelago forcibly depopulated in the 1970s
and subsequently used as a US base during the invasions of Afghanistan and
Iraq, as well as a CIA black site and rendition transit point. Reproducing
the effects of water damage claimed by the British Government to prevent
the release of information relating to the rendition program, the documents
illustrate the complicity between contemporary technological networks and
older forms of entrenched and imperial power.
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