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Loving Big Brother
(title from Loving Big Brother by John E McGrath, Routledge, 2004)

18 July 2008 7.30-9.30pm @ Arts Bar & Café
Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6AB

Booking: This is a free event but there will be an admin charge of £1.20
To book call 020 7650 2350 or online at www.artsadmin.co.uk
Early booking recommended! Limited capacity.

“From George Orwell to reality TV– is surveillance to be feared or embraced?” (Loving Big Brother by John E McGrath, Routledge, 2004)

There are more cameras in the UK than anywhere else in the world, even at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park…We are being watched all the time.

"Talking" CCTV cameras tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour in 20 areas across England (BBC News)

Surveillance seems to have become the eyes and ears of authority in our advanced technological society?

But does it make us feel safer or is it an invasion of privacy? Or does it open up new possibilities for interaction, resistance, creativity and politics?

Leading artists, activists and social thinkers: John E McGrath (Artistic Director of Manchester’s ground breaking Contact Theatre and author of Loving Big Brother); Paula Roush, Artist, founder of msdm and member of KISSS (Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression), and Nic Groombridge (www.criminologyinpublic.com) author on CCTV, criminology and sexuality interrogate surveillance culture with the public in an interactive platform.

For more information contact the Red Room: www.theredroom.org.uk,
(020) 7735 7797, info@theredroom.org.uk