The Henry Art Gallery will host Surveillance & Privacy: Art, Law, and Social Practice, a multi-day symposium focusing on the response of artists and cultural institutions to issues related to privacy and surveillance.

Swarm has received an Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category at Ars Electronica.

A panel that considers how contemporary artists are using code as a cinematic medium.

Art Fag City discusses Swarm as part of Cronenberg:Transformations at MOCCA, Toronto

In James Coupe’s “Swarm,” Surveillance Equipment and Profiling Algorithms Highlight Demographic Identity and Social Paranoia…

Sanctum opens May 4 – sign up to the project’s Facebook app.

Five People in a Room included in The Public Private at Parsons, New York City Feb 7 – April 17.

A new installation is currently being installed at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Art historian Johanna Gosse will present a paper titled “Virtual Panopticons: The Ethics of Observation in the Digital Age” at the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles. The paper is part of the Radical Art Caucus panel, chaired by Alan Wallach.

Henry Art Gallery commissions Sanctum by James Coupe and Juan Pampin, to be realized in 2012

July 1, 2011 Henry Art Gallery Announces Façade Window Project Finalists Thousands of students, faculty, staff, and visitors walk past the Henry’s entrance every day. To better engage these passersby and make the public face of the Henry more dynamic, the Henry Art Gallery initiated the Façade Window Project. In late 2010 the museum issued […]

Thursday, August 11, 2011, 7:00 – 8:00 PM

The Henry Art Gallery invites you to join artist James Coupe for a screening and discussion of the artist’s recent work with ‘surveillance cinema’ in (re)collector, Surveillance Suite, and the web-based work Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days.

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A new version of Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days has been commissioned for the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester, UK. In advance of the festival, forty new portraits were recorded of people from Manchester, and these will be used in combination with Facebook status posts by […]

At Olympia Film Society, James Coupe will discuss his work and screen several of his recent short films, alongside extracts from cinematic ‘templates’ that he has used, such as Antonioni’s Blow-Up.

The Technology Law Society at the University of Washington School of Law will host a panel discussion focused on surveillance art (the use of technology to record human behavior that provides commentary on the process of surveillance) and rights of the artist and public on Thursday, January 28 from 12:30 – 1:20 p.m. in William H. Gates Hall Room 127.