Sunday 3rd October 2.30 – 3.30pm
Artist: Emery Martin
Emery C. Martin will present The Neighborhood Network Watch (NNW), a tactical media project about domestic surveillance and the embedded politics and power structures in networks and technology.
The NNW was a simulation of a community based domestic eavesdropping group, whose stated mission was to collect and analyze network traffic from public networks to safeguard the community and nation from terrorist threats. The group functioned as an entry point to talk about the embedded politics and power structures in networks and technology, as well as domestic surveillance in a post 9-11 world.
The presentation will include the origins of the project, its implementation, public responses to the project, and the continued pertinence of the project both in the U.S. and abroad due to continued efforts to carry out domestic surveillance operations and filter the Internet.
It will also include the hardware, software, and tactics the NNW used, how ideology and politics is embedded within computer networks and software, and the co-option of language, symbols and the identities of government entities.
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