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.

From July 4th – September 26th, James Coupe will be artist-in-residence at Lanternhouse International in Ulverston, UK.

“Mechatronic Art: Beyond Craft-Fetishism”: 11 AM, August 28th, 2009, Waterfront Hall, Belfast. Part of the ISEA Conference.

The Creative Capital Foundation in New York selected Surveillance Suite as one of 41 projects, from 2068 entries, that will receive up to $50,000 of funding.

James Coupe has been awarded one of three Artist Trust fellowships in Emerging and Cross-disciplinary Art, from a total of 450 applications. The award recognizes an artist’s creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline.

Don’t You F#{%ING Look At Me! Surveillance in the 21st Century