...Jennifer Rhee This essay examines the relationship between surveillance and opacity through artist Adam Harvey's “Anti-Drone” wear, clothing that evades drone surveillance and is part of his Stealth Wear (2013) project. Through an engagement with opacity, the author argues that “Anti-Drone” wear's...

... and a material condition to address issues of surveillance, the nonhuman, and contemporary art. Jennifer Rhee considers clothing that evades drone detection, while Zach Blas and Jacob Gaboury discuss biometric facial recognition and masked protest. Jasmina Tumbas and Jemima Wyman claim camouflage as a refusal...

...Lisa Nakamura Images of biometric screens are becoming increasingly common in television and film, particularly in genres such as police procedurals, “terror” television programs, and medical dramas. Digital surveillant screens establish and produce authority and scientific truths about national...

..., it was also often the precondition for varieties of hostility, alienation, violation, and surveillance. I conclude with Horne's self-revision of these aloof performances as she articulated a new relationship with her audiences during the civil rights movement and after. Camera Obscura 2008 Shane...

... of visibility in an age of pervasive surveillance, Blas and Gaboury look to the work of artists and critical thinkers who offer alternate modes of veiled, obscured, or otherwise negotiated being in the world. Focusing on Blas's own work, the conversation interrogates what Blas terms “informatic opacity” through...

..., and collaborative interventions as well as the feminist and activist legacies that inform her video, performance, and installation works. For Wyman, opacity and camouflage enable collective emancipatory action in a time of contemporary neoliberal forms of surveillance, as seen in the practices of Pussy Riot members...

... in media theory has mobilized the terms of the psychoanalytic model of scopophilia to critique today’s intensification of surveil- lance. In the intellectual tradition of pessimists like Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, and Guy Debord, present-day thinkers on digital media, film...

... campaigns against tuberculosis and breast cancer, I hope to show that, while the new medical imaging technologies are without question being used as a form of surveillance and control of bodies and communities, it would be a mistake to represent these technologies as simply tools...

... accommodate the hybrid creature illustrated by these examples, the woman-house in whom gender and architecture, body and commodity, surveillance and spectacle find physical form. To do so, it reads this creature as primarily an architectural structure, but one...

... is a city in which racial and class polarization wears the highly public face of sophisticated security and surveillance systems." Within this segregated urban space, gangs have become the fulcrum of social activity in communities such as Comp- ton, Echo Park, Watts, and MacArthur Park. The gang...

... of heteronormative ideals. Figure 1. A surveillance camera captures a view of the McMansion featured in Paranormal Activity 2 (dir. Tod Williams, US, 2010). Occult Anxieties and the Recessionary Imaginary in the Paranormal Activity Franchise Linda Liu According to the prevailing theory...

... negotiated with the Thatcherite legacy of the com- modification of popular taste.”11 In a discussion of fashion make- overs, Gareth Palmer argues that “the concepts of both lifestyle and surveillance are part of a new discursive formation in which appearance is of paramount importance — ­a concern...

..., the postwar project of global health surveillance is heavily invested in monitoring physical and national boundaries. As a result, the films produced by interna- tional health organizations compulsively pose (and attempt to solve) the problem of visualizing invisible contagions. Within this archive...

... to the performances of Laurie Anderson or the early films of Chantal Akerman, July’s work traffics in both the severe and the banal conditions of contemporary life: environ- mental illness, family dynamics, obsolescing technology, surveil- lance, and medical experimentation. In her live performances Love Diamond...

... bridal gown, presumably inducing orgasm at last. She disappears. This is a nihilistic and almost unbear- ably Romantic conclusion, a dance of death and apotheosis. Margaret, as a character, is controlled by a larger system of surveil- lance of which she is largely unaware. An alien eye...

... and so challenging the will to power of Catherine’s tech- nological surveillance; while she is contained and exposed, he is only incidentally a localized, trackable body. He is everywhere and nowhere, or rather, he is where, the condition of space itself. In this way, the presentation of space...

... to war and technologies of death, and, second, as a biopolitical dilemma, psychically dam- aged and physically partial refugees, whose deviations from the physiological norm bring them under medical surveillance in the Camera Obscura 76, Volume 26, Number 1 doi 1 0 . 1 2 1 5 / 0 2 7 0 5 3 4...

... sequence ends that we begin to learn who Lenny is, what SQUID does, and why Lenny’s use and distribution of SQUID is illegal. The SQUID technology has been outlawed because some users have transformed a governmental surveillance technology into a private, recreational drug technol- ogy, and Lenny...

... a unique threat to the slave owner and to the entire plantation economy. Since the colonial period, Southern whites had relied heavily on the surveillance function of print culture to control the slave population. The planters’ desire for systematic surveil- lance required them...

... of thematically integrated individual works produced pri- marily between 1990 and 1997, the exhibition deployed a carefully choreographed montage of contemporary and archival images —  including British colonial maps, nineteenth-century anthropomet- ric photographs, and recent surveillance images...