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In the age of surveillance and the erosion of privacy, the fear of being watched—whether by "Big Brother" or some anonymous stalker in either the real or virtual world—is seemingly the new mythology. The group exhibition Panopticon (from the Greek, for "all-seeing," based on an 18th-century building designed to enable one sentry to watch all chambers) looks at observational systems—"panoptic" systems both physical and invisible—and the works delve into themes of data collection, surveillance and voyeurism. The technological and political implications investigated by these new media works impinge on contemporary questions of meaning and representation. The subtitle of the exhibition—Visibility, Data and the Monitoring Gaze—implies that fascinating things can happen when the viewer becomes the viewed or, at least, is forced to confront the sense of becoming the object of observation. As curator Rebecca Maksym notes: "How do notions of surveillance change when flesh becomes data?" We are rendered as mere information and somehow less than human, the voyeuristic objects of desire and, what's more, subjects of control—and it's discomfiting. Artists in the exhibition include Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun, Erik Brunvand, Mahwish Chishty, Paolo Cirio, Heather Dewey-Hagborg (her "Invisible" is pictured), Willie Doherty, Constant Dullaart, Pablo Garcia, Adam Harvey, Leopold Kessler, Jonas Lund, Kate McQuillen, Trevor Paglen, Evan Roth and Addie Wagenknecht. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition Church vs. State, as well as showings from Pam Bowman, Sophie Calle, Jonathan Frioux and new animated graphics from French group The Daily Task, will also open the same evening. (Brian Staker) Opening reception Feb. 13, 6-9 p.m.
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Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
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