Human Rights Prison

An oxymoron?
Apparently not ... The Alexander Maconochie Centre, ACT is all about recognising people as fellow human beings.

http://www.cs.act.gov.au/
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2008/11/26/2430325.htm

Source: http://www.cs.act.gov.au/custodial_operations/types_of_detention/alexander_maconochie_centre

Critical Animals @ The Lock-Up

"Text Inscription, Oral Testimony and Sonic Murmurs" is the title of the panel I'm a part of on Sunday. I'm talking about the "Embodied Voice and the Posthuman Courtroom" at 12:00PM.

http://criticalanimals.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/posters-ca-sunday6.pdf

http://criticalanimals.org/

It's part of the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle:
http://thisisnotart.org/2011/09/it-all-comes-down-to-this-tina-2011-kicks-off-tomorrow/

Virtual Courts

Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete - Contemporary Arts Media

Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology: Conference

While I'm not looking forward to getting out of bed at 4:45 AM, I am looking forward to heading on down to the Geelong waterfront for the 2011 Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference:

http://www.anzsoc.org/cms-conferences/post-graduate-and-early-carreer-researcher-conferences.phps

Criminal Trial Tweeting

From CreativeTimetweets:
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/tweets/?p=130

Jill Magid witnessed a shooting by Fausto Cardenas in Austin, Texas. She decided to continue her witnessing by attending his trial and reporting directly from the courtroom via Twitter to create a digital testimonial record.

View the project by using the hashtag #FaustosWitness or following@jillmagid beginning August 5. Magid’s tweets will continue until the end of the trial.

Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and observation. Magid has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Tate Modern, London; Berkeley Art Museum; Yvon Lambert in New York and Paris; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; and Gagosian Gallery, New York. She has written three books: One Cycle of Memory in the City of L; Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, Becoming Tarden, and is currently working on her fourth, Failed States. Magid lives and works in New York City.

www.jillmagid.net

A Philosophy of Evidence Law

Back to blogging ... it's been a busy couple of weeks with my exhibition opening at Mosman Art Gallery ... and I've started sitting in on some evidence classes to brush up my rusty knowledge.
A bit of late night reading last night: H.L. Ho A Philosophy of Evidence Law: Justice in the Search for Truth Oxford University Press 2008. Pages 81-84: some interesting comments referencing the work of Raimond Gaita who speaks of justice in terms of humanity rather than fairness, empathy in justice and the recognition of the accused as a human being (Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice London: Routledge, 2000, 81). Markus Dirk Dubber is quoted as writing that even a psychopath 'does not deserve to be disposed of as a mere object.' (Dubber, The Sense of Justice - Empathy in Law and Punishment (NY: NYU Press, 101).
Some useful references for my research and the impact of video technologies in criminal proceedings.

Sydney Law School Postgraduate Conference

The 2011 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Conference will be held 27 & 28 October. Submission of abstracts is 29 August 2011. Please see the following link for more details:

http://sydney.edu.au/law/pgconference/index.shtml

Bang! Bang!

I'm always interested in exhibitions that consider crime ... this one at CCA Gallery, Mallorca, Spain shows works by artists whose works allude to crime and crime scenes and the intersections of fact and fiction.

http://www.ccandratx.com/en/p251/agenda_12/bang-bang.html

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/9876

Reports of Crime Etc., Etc., - Text

Here are a few stills from my video installation: