Art of Criminology

Friday, 29 April 2011

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.

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

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.

Monday, 25 April 2011

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

Monday, 18 April 2011

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.