While the borders of the US are often conceived as clear lines, in reality they manifest as a labyrinth of agencies, individuals, and surveillance technologies. Border surveillance encompasses numerous technologies: US Customs and Border Protection drones can observe the majority of American homes, flying anywhere within 100 miles of a land border or coast; immigrants awaiting court dates are forced to wear electronic GPS shackles; plans for a physical border wall increasingly give way to plans for an invisible wall of surveillance; and more. The speakers in this conversation will explain the variety of individual surveillance technologies used by Department of Homeland Security agencies, and how these technologies impact immigrant and BIPOC communities, as well as everyone living within the US.
Featuring Jacinta González, Senior Campaign Organizer, Mijente; Carin Kuoni, Senior Director/Chief Curator, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School; and Mizue Aizeki, Interim Executive Director, Immigrant Defense Project; moderated by Myaisha Hayes, Campaign Strategies Director, MediaJustice.
“The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones" is an online speaker series organized by High Line Art and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project in conjunction with artist Sam Durant's High LIne Plinth commission "Untitled (drone)”.