[ISEA95] Panel: Kim Sawchuk — Power Play: Surveillance and Interactivity

Panel Statement

Panel: Ideology of Interactivity

An examination of the dynamics of power at play in media arts projects that takes surveillance as their point of departure in setting up interactive encounters. Central to this discussion is consideration of the seduction of the viewer into these environments and a critical interrogation of the appropriation of Michel Foucault’s theory of the panopticon as a paradigm of control.

  • Kim Sawchuk  (Canada) is a media theorist who writes on marketing research as well as on the media arts. Her media arts forays examine the political and artistic uses of on-line and electronic technologies. Her most recent work has been on the confluence between medical imaging and aesthetics. She teaches in the department of Communication Studies at Montreal’s Concordia University.