e-trial, anyone? - High Tech Courtrooms

It's amazing to see the array of technologies being introduced into courtrooms around the world. I'll be researching this area and considering: a future of e-trial in the posthuman e-court? Here are a few links:

High Tech Courtrooms Resource Guide:
http://www.ncsc.org/Topics/Technology/High-Tech-Courtrooms/Resource-Guide.aspx

I've heard from another research candidate that the Scottish Courts are impressive:
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/resources/courtroomtech/courtroomtechlist.asp?dir=sheriff

The Center for Legal and Court Technology (formerly the Courtroom 21 project):
http://www.legaltechcenter.net/default.aspx
http://www.legaltechcenter.net/aspx/about%20the%20courtroom.aspx
Apparently the McGlothlin Courtroom at William & Mary Law School is the most technologically advanced courtroom in the world. It allows multiple remote appearances, electronically presented evidence and web-published court records.
Refer to: http://www.legaltechcenter.net/aspx/demos.aspx

And thanks to Ruth Skilbeck for mentioning:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1791596.stm
"Creating a virtual Bloody Sunday" - this story looks at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry into what happened in Londonderry on 30/01/72 when 13 protestors were killed. The Inquiry, which had 1,500 witnesses to an event that happened 30 years prior, used virtual reality technology to re-create 1972 Derry.

Art and the Law

Here are some links to artists and exhibitions relating to voice, narrative, courts and/or testimony:

1. Andrea Geyer
Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb
http://www.andreageyer.info/projects/criminal_case/CriminalCase.htm
Exhibited in The Dialogic Imagination, Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden

2. Gerard Byrne
http://www.lissongallery.com/#/exhibitions/2009-02-11_gerard-byrne/

3. Nathan Coley

http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/gallery.php?item_id=19&src=/media/2221/coley_hv09007.jpg&page=home.artists.nathan_coley

4. Krimiseries: Evidence, Narrative and the Forensic Imagination, Museum London
http://www.londonmuseum.on.ca/exhibitions:1

5. Behind the Fourth Wall Fictitious Lives - Lived Fictions
includes works by Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Michael Fliri, Andrea Geyer, Marcello Maloberti, Aernout Mik, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Judy Radul, Allan Sekula, Ian Wallace
at Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
http://foundation.generali.at/index.php?id=858&L=1

6. and lastly, at the Tate Modern in 2010 there was a one day symposium Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics and Justice - a book is to be published shortly by Routledge-Cavendish
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20799.htm

Law Text Culture: Law's Theatrical Presence

A bit of a plug for this lovely publication from the University of Wollongong and University of London:
Law Text Culture Volume 14, Issue 1 (2010) Law's Theatrical Presence
http://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol14/iss1/

My images on the front and back covers plus my article Murder Ob/scene: The Seen, Unseen and Ob/scene in Murder Trials
http://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol14/iss1/6/

Art as Research

I'm always interested in publications and websites about art as research and a form of knowledge generation:

http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/suspense—international-symposium-on-rethinking-research/
http://www.auha.be/main.aspx?c=.SUSPENSE&n=94653&ct=094653&e=262533

This conference explores how research in/through art, often seen as a deviation from the standard discursive form, creates different forms of dynamic knowledge.

Judy Radul - World Rehearsal Court

The catalogue for Judy Radul "World Rehearsal Court" exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Colombia 2009 is available at:

http://worldrehearsalcourt.com/

http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/judy-radul-world-rehearsal-court/

Scott Watson writes in a catalogue essay that the exhibition represents several years of research into contemporary courtrooms and the role of technology as evidence.

http://worldrehearsalcourt.com/essays/trial-run

Some books I'm reading

Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo Van Leeuwen 2010
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12281

Listening and voice: phenomenologies of sound by Don Ihde 2007
http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Voice-Phenomenologies-Don-Ihde/dp/0791472566

For more than one voice: Toward a philosophy of vocal expression by Adriana Cavarero 2005
http://www.amazon.com/More-than-One-Voice-Philosophy/dp/0804749558/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303131526&sr=1-2

Theatres of violence: facts and fictions

Here's a summary of my notes (filtered through Wordle) from an Institute of Criminology event I attended tonight: Theatres of violence: facts and fiction. Panel members were true crime author Clive Small, journalist and fiction writer Mark Dapin and criminologists David Brown and Rebecca Scott Bray.

Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future

Interesting pages:

http://pactac.net/series/digital-inflections-visions-for-the-posthuman-future/
http://pactac.net/
http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx

Cambridge's PhD Candidates' Criminology Blog

ttp://cambridgecriminologyphd.blogspot.com/

Top 50 Criminology Blogs

Top 50 Criminology Blogs

CriminoBlogica - Blogging about crime, justice and safety

http://www.mastersincriminology.com/top-50-criminology-blogs.html

Acoustic Jurisprudence

Another postgraduate candidate referred me to the research of James Parker, University of Melbourne, whose PhD is entitled:

Listening to law: Simon Bikindi and the acoustics of justice

In his thesis, Parker is exploring the relationship between law and sound. His is particularly interested in the "sonority of the courtroom" in the context of adjudication, and "the acoustic as a form of both expression and action."

reference: http://www.research.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=32782AA6-95C2-89E3-275A85B8FFC18DFA&Profile=340808 accessed 06/04/11 online 2:36 PM.

Aural Contract

Interested to find the work of this artist in London:
Aural Contract 2010 - Lawrence Abu Hamdan
His premise is that the voice and vocal delivery are fundamental to legal operations. The collaborative work aims to reimagine the many voices that shape proceedings and filter into society. The final project will result in an installation WHAT I AM SAYING TO YOU NOW IS NOT EVIDENCE.

http://www.theshowroom.org/programme.html?id=138