CIA Museum and Bush Surveillance

From: "Anna" avcowgirl@yahoo.com
Date: Wed May 17, 2006 8:26pm(PDT)
Subject: This Saturday: Photo Exhibit opening

PhotoNewburgh
113 Liberty Street
Newburgh, NY 12550
646 641 5888

presents:
DANIEL GOODWIN: CIA MUSEUM and BUSH SURVEILLANCE
May 20th-June 24th, 2006

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday May 20th 3-7pm

DANIEL GOODWIN:
The Cia Museum and Bush Surveillance
May 20-June 24th, 2006
Open Saturdays 1-6pm or by appointment

PhotoNewburgh is pleased to present the photographs of Daniel Goodwin
through June 24th, 2006. Goodwin, a photographic artist and educator
from the Albany, New York area has been exploring the themes of
photographic veracity and authoritarian power for several years. The
images from the CIA Museum series are objects originally fabricated as
props for the photographs according to technical descriptions and/or
schematic drawings of equipment allegedly produced by the Central
Intelligence Agency's Technical Services Division; though later works
are but plausible fictions. These pieces, treated as objects of art,
perhaps depict the crude presentation of materials shown in a military
information catalog.

Bush Surveillance, a survey of various public and private compounds of
officials associated with the Bush White House uses decoy aerial
surveillance equipment (non-functional prototypes and the images they
ostensibly produce), as well as actual un-manned aerial surveillance
cameras and resulting imagery. For this series of images, Goodwin has
constructed small-scale models of the homes of many high-ranking
members of the Bush cabinet, based on satellite imagery. The
re-photographed models are altered to appear more real and are greatly
enlarged. Like the CIA Museum, this work is pure counterintelligence:
truth inextricably intertwined with lies. In the sense the resulting
images are an authentic response to the world in which his studio
practice exists; it is, in the end, true.

For Information contact:

Andrew Garn
646-641-5888

Thanks for the article.

and all at DU. Peace and low stress,