Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
21 February 2009
Discovering the Unmonitored Underground City
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Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
articles
System Settings
6 November 2023
System Settings
Thuto Durkac-Somo considers the frictions inherent to networked architecture
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PH2003:0089
architecture
May 1996
architecture
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 November 2015
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
textual records
textual records
textual records
ARCH267172
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This group consists of supervision reports for the Observatoire astronomique du Mont-Mégantic, in Québec.
1977-1980
Observatoire Mont-Mégantic / 7601 / Surveillance / Procès-verbaux / 11.0
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ARCH267172
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This group consists of supervision reports for the Observatoire astronomique du Mont-Mégantic, in Québec.
textual records
1977-1980
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel: View of tunnel with cars and surveillance camera, Montreal
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c. 1967
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel: View of tunnel with cars and surveillance camera, Montreal
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c. 1967
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c. 1967
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel: Surveillance control room, close up, with man, Montreal
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c. 1967
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1965-66
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel: man sitting at surveillance control room desk, training studio, Montreal
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1965-66