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Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns
Claire C. Carter
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
| Scottsdale, AZ

Exhibition dates: September 28, 2014 - January 11, 2015
On tour at the San Jose Museum of Art until January 10, 2016
Covert Operations presents works by approximately 15 multi-disciplinary visual artists and collaboratives that earnestly undertook the weighty responsibility of making the invisible visible to the rest of us. The rich, conceptual themes in Covert Operations included secrecy and disclosure, violence, power, subterfuge, surveillance, territory, geography and the visible versus the hidden. 
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Publication Awards

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American Alliance of Museums
2015 Museum Publications Exhibition Catalogue Awards; Honorable Mention
 
American Institute of Graphic Arts and Design Observer
2014 50 Books/50 Covers Competition; Winner, 50 Books category
 
Association of Art Museum Curators
2014 Award for Excellence, Honorable Mention

Press

San Jose Museum of Art
Square Cylinder - Covert Operations @ San Jose Museum of Art
Metro Magazine - Let Freedom Ring (My Cell Phone)

Symposiums & Presentations

“Stop Asking and Start Questioning: Information, Secrecy, and Surveillance Since 9/11,” Nov 22, 2014. Symposium held in conjunction with Covert Operations. Organized by SMoCA. Speakers: Claire C. Carter, Curator of Contemporary Art, SMoCA; Hasan Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, and Director of the Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors program; Sandra S. Phillips, Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dana Priest, academic, writer and investigative reporter specializing in national security for the Washington Post; Daniel Rothenberg, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies and Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University, and David Taylor, artist and Professor of Fine Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
 
“Living in Public: (Re)Negotiating Privacy + Security + Surveillance,” Oct 4, 2015. Symposium held in conjunction with Covert Operations. Organized by the San Jose Museum of Art and the Tech Museum of Innovation. Morning speakers: Hasan Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist, associate professor at the University of Maryland, and director of the Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors program; Jennifer Granick, attorney, educator, and director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society; Nadia Kayyali, lawyer and activist with Electronic Frontier Foundation; Larry Magid, on-air technology analyst, CBS News; Michelle Maranowski, curator and exhibit director at the The Tech Museum; and Robin Stuart, cyber-security threat researcher. Afternoon speakers: Erin Berman, project manager for technology and innovation, San Jose Public Library; Michelle Dennedy, vice president and chief security officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.; Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 members Ricardo Dominguez, associate professor of visual arts, University of California, San Diego, and Amy Sara Carroll, assistant professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan; Claire Carter, curator of contemporary art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and Certified Information Privacy Professional; and Marja van der Loo, curatorial associate at San Jose Museum of Art. 
 
“Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns.” Presentation at Surveillance as Art Practice panel at the 103rd Annual College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, February 11 – 14, 2015.

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