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10:00 9 July - 17:00 27 September 2015
Virtual control - Security and the urban imagination
Location
The Practice Space |
Royal Institute of British Architects
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Map)
66 Portland Place |
London |
W1B 1AD |
United Kingdom
Open to:
Academic |
Alumni |
Public |
Student
Admission: Free
Ticketing: Open
Playfully walking between urban facts and fictions, this exhibition by the UCL Urban Laboratory Artist-in-Residence Max Colson presents a series of investigations on controlled urban areas.
The focus is privatised public space – urban environments which are nominally public, but owned and managed by commercial entities. The images on display explore how carefully camouflaged surveillance technology is used to monitor these areas, and, potentially, to manipulate behaviour. Other parts of the exhibition look at how these spaces are marketed and present an idealised version of urban environments.
Whether documenting the networks of sensors designed to 'track' suspect individuals or exploring how plants are used to disguise security architecture, this exhibition suggests how paranoia intrudes upon the urban imagination.
Contact
Jordan Rowe
+44 (0)20 3108 9402 |
urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk
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