Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon:

The Graduate Group in Cultural Studies invites you to join us at colloquium on Thursday, 20 April 2006, 4:00-6:00PM in 1130 Hart Hall. Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon: The S.P.I.R.A.W.L Project (Sound Proofed Institute for Acoustic Weapons Logistics) will be presented by KIT Collaboration, Battery Operated, and C0C0S0L1DC1. Please see below for more information. We hope to see you there!

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Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon: The S.P.I.R.A.W.L Project
(Sound Proofed Institute for Acoustic Weapons Logistics)


A presentation by members of KIT Collaboration, Battery Operated, and C0C0S0L1DC1


With archival footage and contemporary interviews, S.P.I.R.A.W.L.: Sound as a Media Friendly Weapon charts the camouflaged growth of sound weapons, tracking their development under the benign rubric of “non-lethal” weapons programs, since the Second World War. The filmmakers trace the success these weapons have in field ops, look at how and where these weapons have been commercialized, and at what state agencies are introducing them for civilian control. They ask how democratic nations are able to develop and introduce these weapons without regard to international law, public policy or arms control. Calls for human rights directed policies have so far fallen on deaf ears. S.P.I.R.A.W.L. speaks out against the silent spread of sonic weaponry and locates the resonant frequency of democracy.


Thursday, 20 April 2006
4:00-6:00pm, 1130 Hart Hall


KIT is a collaboration of artists, architects, programmers and writers. Working together since 1995, they have produced interactive robotic, sound, video and photographic installations, projects for architectural competitions and curated touring exhibitions. KIT projects have been realized in galleries, museums, festivals and off-site spaces across Europe, North America and Asia.

C0C0S0L1DC1 is a sound, video and Internet commissioning label. They invite artists from all of these mediums to collaborate on projects together as well as to produce their own works for release on CD/DVD and through the web.


Co-sponsored by Technocultural Studies, Film Studies, and Science and Technology Studies