Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443819053)

Outi Remes is a curator and art historian. She is Head of Exhibitions at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Berkshire and lectures on modern and contemporary art and gallery studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has curated a wide range of exhibitions and live art projects, including South Hill Park's Rules and Regs live art residences (2007, 2008, 2009) and the Surveillance (2007-8) and Sound: Space (2008) seasons. Her research interests include contemporary art in relation to media culture, cultural interaction in public spaces and the production of the self. She has a PhD from the University of Reading (2005) and has recently published on photography, sculpture and the production of the artistic self. Pam Skelton is an artist and Reader in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Her artworks explore the interface of private and public memory in video installations that confront events and conflicts in modern and contemporary European history. Her exhibitions include After Auschwitz, Imperial War Museum, London (1995); Perceptions, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik (2002); Burning Poems, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg (2005) and the Moscow Biennale (2007); and Dwelling in the Space of Conspiracy, (ISEA09) Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2009). She is co-editor of the exhibition and book Private Views: Spaces and Gender in Contemporary Art from Britain and Estonia (WAL, 2000) and co-curator of the exhibition Hygiene: The Art of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London (2002).