::fibreculture:: Exposing the Invisible event 10th Feb - Sydney

[Ned Rossiter]

EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE
10 February, 2014
5.30pm-8.00pm

The internet, mobile phones and the digitisation of data have enabled 
collaborations between activists, hackers, researchers and journalists 
on an unprecedented scale. These collaborations have led to exposures 
and revelations that were once unimaginable.This event will explore how 
technology is being used to expose the invisible.

Tactical Technology Collective support rights advocates from around the 
world to collect, analyse and visualise evidence in a safe and secure 
way. Tactical Tech’s founders and directors, Stephanie Hankey and Marek 
Tuszynski, have been working at the forefront of new information and 
technology collaborations and developments for more than a decade. They 
will join us from Berlin to share their latest productions: a 
documentary film, Exposing the Invisible and a book, Visualising 
Information for Advocacy. The screening will be followed with a panel 
and audience discussion about the challenges and opportunities for 
exposing the invisible.

This event will be of interest to NGOs, activists, hackers, 
technologists, journalists, designers, researchers, academics and anyone 
else interested in using digital technologies to investigate and expose 
injustice and rights abuses. We invite you to come and share your own 
experiences and ideas.

5.30pm: Australian Premiere Screening of Exposing the Invisible
6.45pm: Refreshments
7.00pm: Short presentations by and discussions with:
Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch (Using video documentation and 
satellite imagery to expose abuses in Asia)
Wendy Bacon, Professorial Fellow and Investigative Journalist, 
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (Investigating 
'invisibility' in Australian media - a case study of coal and climate 
change)
ActionAid Australia (Mapping for Advocacy in Kenya)
Jeremy Donovan, Generation One (Making visible Indigenous and 
non-Indigenous disparities)
Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech (Land grabs and the 
Land Matrix Project)

Event organised by:
The Sydney Democracy Network
Supported by:
The University of Sydney and The University of Western Sydney
Location: S249, Philosophy Room, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney
Campus Map and Parking Map

More info and please RSVP here as there are limited seats.
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/sdn/news_events/events.shtml?id=2429

Contact: Tanya Notley
Email: T.Notley at uws.edu.au


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Dr. Tanya Notley
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
Room EQ.G.26 Parramatta South Campus
Postal: Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751
Staff Profile: 
http://www.uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/doctor_tanya_notley
m: +61 (0)426018024 | e: t.notley at uws.edu.au | Twitter: @tattinot