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Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 2  
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH  
Friday 18 November 2016, 2:30-4:00pm  
Free tickets can be booked at
[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-in-the-streets-weapons-of-terror-in-the-news-cinema-and-media-art-tickets-26922937230](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-in-the-streets-weapons-of-terror-in-the-news-cinema-and-media-art-tickets-26922937230){#LPlnk556204
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(seating is limited, so advance booking is advised)

An artist, two academics and two journalists selected a series of video
fragments that engage with armed violence from recent news media, cinema
and new media art. Intertwined with a cinema screening of this video
collection, they will discuss everyday experiences of fear and violence
in Western Europe.

Since the 1990s, representations of Western warfare and public security
efforts have predominantly focused on advanced (digital) technologies,
such as drones and smart bombs. However, the prominence of automatic
firearms in the 2014 and 2015 terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris
has marked the return of the image of the battlefield soldier in Western
European everyday life: armed terrorists and security forces in military
attire seem to increasingly populate public space. This development also
affects the production and perception of news reports, cinema and media
art. There appears to be a renewed interest in traditional methods of
armed violence in representations of Western warfare, in which the
display of camouflage uniforms and assault rifles play a prominent role.
This raises questions both about the perception of threat and safety in
public space, and the expectations surrounding military and consumer
technologies.

Artist Dani Ploeger (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) will
present his work ASSAULT which involved firing an AK-47 at an iPad,
among others. Academics Dr. Richard Bramwell (University of
Loughborough) and Dr. Chris Williams (Institute of Education, University
College London) will look at public security policies in relation to
representations of violence in popular culture. Jan Vollmer (independent
journalist for VICE, Die Zeit, Die Welt) will reflect on this from the
perspective of his recent work on armed conflicts and their
representation in Russia and the Ukraine. Catherine Chapman (independent
journalist for NBC, VICE) will provide perspective on the use of culture
to influence public opinion and the role of art and technology to engage
audiences with socio-political issues.

The event is part of the Being Human Festival organized by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council
(AHRC). [http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/war-in-the-streets-terror-and-weapons-in-media/](http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/war-in-the-streets-terror-and-weapons-in-media/){#LPlnk997082
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Dr. Daniël Ploeger  
Research Fellow  
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London  
Principal Investigator, Digital performance and the global politics of
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Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 2 The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Friday 18 November 2016, 2:30-4:00pm Free tickets can be booked at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-in-the-streets-weapons-of-terror-in-the-news-cinema-and-media-art-tickets-26922937230 (seating is limited, so advance booking is advised)  An artist, two academics and two journalists selected a series of video fragments that engage with armed violence from recent news media,

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War in the Streets: weapons of terror in the news, cinema and media art