Bringing together a variety of perspectives, this symposium is set to inquire into the role of imaging techniques in operations related to security: optimization, regulation, surveillance, military defense and targeting. Imaging technologies are based on the logic of enhancement, applied to both the mechanical and human, creating a feedback loop of lethal machines, opto- sensorial systems and social formations of danger and safety. Image Operations in the Security Zone thus seeks to demarcate an omnipresent ontological condition: to be secured. That is, to remain in a demarcated time and space where people and things are calm, regulated, predictable, under control. At the same time, other bodies are marked as unstable and threatening, engraved into clandestine scenarios in the security zone.

Participants:
CAREN KAPLAN, Professor of American Studies, UC Davis
DONATO MONTANARI, Co-Funder & CEO Deevio GmbH, Berlin
NOAM GOLDWAY, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
YANA THONNES, Artistic Director of THE AGENCY

organizers: Antoine Prevost-Balga, Philipp Röding and Laliv Melamed

Funders: DFG; FzHG; Freunde und Förderer der Goethe Universtat; Stiftung zur Förderung der Internationalen Beziehungen der JGU.

Organized as part of the mini-cluster Image Operations, the DFG research collective Configurations of Film. The event is open to the public.

https://konfigurationen-des-films.de/event/image-operations-in-the-security-zone/

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Contacts: Laliv Melamed (melamed (at) tfm.uni-frankfurt.de), Agnes Fink (Ag.Fink (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de)

Feel free to circulate widely.

best,
Dr. Laliv Melamed
Postdoc im Graduiertenkolleg „Konfigurationen des Films"
Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
IG Farben Gebäude 6.354, Postfach 37
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60323 Frankfurt am Main
+49 (0) 69 798 32713
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