12:30 PM
Free with Museum admission
Marja van der Loo, curatorial associate, will guide visitors through the exhibition Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns and illuminate artistic responses to a post-9/11 world.
Marja van der Loo, curatorial associate, will guide visitors through the exhibition Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns and illuminate artistic responses to a post-9/11 world.
As we pass the second anniversary of shocking revelations about widespread, international data collection, security and privacy have become everyday concerns. Covert Operations is the first survey of work by artists who are responding to the uncertainties of the post-9/11 world. They employ the tools of democracy to bear witness to attacks on liberty and to the abuse of power: they reveal previously unreported information and government actions that may limit civil rights.