[resource-net] 10.9.15: NOME opens Jacob Appelbaum´s solo show: SAMISDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy

Manuela Benetton manuela.benetton at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 17:31:07 CEST 2015


Dear reSource List,

Here is an invitation to the opening of our next exhibition at NOME, on
Sept. 10th. The exhibition *SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy* by Jacob
Appelbaum is curated by our Tatiana Bazzichelli and presented in
collaboration with the conference by Disruption Network Lab, *SAMIZDATA:
Tactics and Strategies for Resistance*, also curated by Tatiana, at
Kunstquartier Bethanien (11-12th Sept.)
We hope to see many of you there!

Have a nice week-end,
Manuela


Jacob Appelbaum, *SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy*
Opening: 10 September, 6pm
11 September - 31 October 2015

NOME
Dolziger Straße 31,
10247 Berlin
FB Event <https://www.facebook.com/nomeproject>

NOME Gallery is pleased to present *SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy,*
Jacob Appelbaum’s first solo show in Germany, curated by Tatiana
Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Disruption Network Lab.

The title of the show references the Russian word *samizdat,* an important
form of dissident activity throughout the former Soviet bloc in which
censored literature was clandestinely reproduced and distributed.
Transferred to the 21st century, the activity also resonates with aspects
of the "Snowden Affair" and WikiLeaks as regards the distribution of
information that places involved people at risk.

With *SAMIZDATA* Jacob Appelbaum presents artworks that are a critique of
the progressive loss of liberty, evolving from within a context of
investigative journalism and document-leaking aimed at the higher goal of
transparency.

For the first time, the artist is showing a series of six color infrared
photos as cibachrome prints, portraits of his own network of colleagues and
friends: Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda, Julian Assange,
Sarah Harrison, William Binney and Ai Weiwei. The works were originally
created as a sign of admiration and respect for the portrayed people and
for their work that led to the “Snowden Affair” and beyond. Appelbaum uses
color infrared photographic film that was originally produced to detect
camouflaged targets and for use in agricultural surveillance and forensics
investigations, to create pictures that reveal more information than
standard film.

The second exhibition piece is *P2P* (Panda to Panda), a collaboration with
internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei, commissioned by Rhizome and the
New Museum in New York in 2015. For the work, the two artists shredded NSA
documents once given to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald and stuffed them
into panda bears in Ai Weiwei’s hometown of Beijing. Inside each panda, Ai
and Appelbaum placed a micro SD memory card containing a surprise. The
pandas were smuggled out of Beijing and traveled around the world, thus
building a human network of smuggled information: Samizdat/a. "Panda to
Panda" makes reference both to a slang term for the secret police in China
and to peer-to-peer communication (P2P), a distributed communications
architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers.

The third work, *Schuld, Scham und Angst *(Guilt, Shame and Fear) consists
of pieces of jewelry filled with mixed media, shredded journalistic notes
and historical, unredacted classified documents from the Summer of Snowden
and the following years. The title relates to the emotions of journalists
working with these materials: “fear”, the feeling that leads to the
shredding of documents, “guilt” and “shame” in cognizance of the fact that
journalists, too, have become collaborators in a culture of secrecy. The
work was created in collaboration with Manuela Benetton, Berit Gilma and Lusi
Tornado <http://www.theterriblet.com/>.

Jacob Appelbaum is a post-national independent computer security
researcher, journalist and artist.
He lives and works in Berlin.

*SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy* is presented in collaboration with the
conference by Disruption Network Lab, *SAMIZDATA: Tactics and Strategies
for Resistance*, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli at Kunstquartier Bethanien.
The two-day conference (11-12 September 2015) brings together hackers,
artists and critical thinkers who, in light of the Snowden revelations,
apply the concept of resistance and social justice from many different
angles. Among the participants, Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras, Jaromil,
Jørgen Johansen, Theresa Züger and Sophie Toupin.


More information about the exhibition on the NOME website:
http://nomeproject.com
More information about the partner conference on the Disruption Network Lab
website: http://www.disruptionlab.org
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